Robyn Backen b. 1957

  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist)
Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary artist who works with ideas from science, communications technology and philosophy to make art installations that focus as much on formal and poetic elements as they do on the way the objects make use of space in which they are placed.
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  • 1981 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • 1984 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • 1984 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, ACT (collected in)
  • 1988 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • 1992 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • 1995 Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • 2001 Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
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Related recognitions
  • Asialink, Visual Arts Residency program (received)
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