Robin Rivers CV

Collage/Mixed Media Photography Exhibitions:

2026

Group Exhibition, Collage, March 2026: Fragments of What Makes Us Alive, Atelier Ghostbirds, Caldas de Rainha, Portugal.

Art Rental Program, Mixed-media photography, March, 2026-March, 2027: NorthVan Arts, North Vancouver, BC. (Juried)
Pieces Accepted: It Was Always You, 15x17" mixed-media photography on wood; Kiss Me As If It Were The Last Time, 15x17" mixed-media photography on wood; Let Me Be Your Moon and Stars, 15x17" mixed-media photography on wood.

Solo Exhibition, Mixed-media photography, October 22, 2026-January 14, 2027:  Misrememberings: Fragments of Longing & Love (Curated by NorthVan Arts), District of North Vancouver Foyer Gallery, North Vancouver, BC.

2025

Group Exhibition, Collage, July 2025: Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Group Exhibition, Collage, August 2025: Harmony Arts Festival juried group exhibition; West Vancouver, Canada.

Group Exhibition, Mixed-media photography, August 2025: Serenade For The Soul group exhibition; The Gallery George, Vancouver, Canada.

Group Exhibition, Collage, August 2025: My Place juried group exhibition, Langley Arts Council, Langley, BC, Canada.

Group Exhibition, Mixed-media photography, September 2025: Whisper of The Garden juried international online group exhibition, including a featured artist interview, presented by Open Call For Artists.

Group Exhibition, Mixed-media photography, October 2025: Radiant Horizons juried online international group exhibition, Sfumato Art Creatives.

Group Exhibition, Collage, December 2025: Postcards From The Edge group exhibition, Outsiders and Others, Vancouver, Canada.

Group Exhibition, Collage, November/December 2025: Anonymous Art Show, North Van Arts, North Vancouver, Canada.


Photography Exhibitions:

Juried selection of photography for outdoor interpretive signs at the Goose Spit, 2011, Comox Valley Regional District, Courtenay, BC, Canada. 

Group Exhibition, Photography, 2025: Places and Spaces juried online group exhibitionDecagon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.


Literary Publications and Exhibitions:

2026

Poetry: Mother of Sorrows, published in Issue 1 of Windsor, Ontario's Blade and Bloom  Arts and Literature Magazine.

2025

Collage Feature: What We Preserve Shapes What We Remember, Traveling Easel Substack by Lauryn Kai.

Collage: A Promise Between Only Us, published in Photo Trouvée Magazine Issue 18.

Mixed-media photography. Watershed, published in the Sfumato Art Creatives Radiant Horizons Group Exhibition catalog.

Photography. Illumination, published in the Place and Spaces exhibition catalog, Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Poetry: Monsters, published in the Winter 2025 issue of Scotland-based Skirting Around Journal.

Poetry: Soft Pants, published in the Winter 2025 issue of Scotland-based Skirting Around Journal.

Poetry: The Red Maiden used on educational panels about the goddess Zorya in From Artemis to Zorya: The Role of the Feminine Divine Throughout History presented by Cultural Connections in Flagstaff, Arizona. 

Short story: Mare, included in Ghost Stories YYC Volume 4  anthology and exhibition at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery in Calgary, Alberta.

Short story: Albertine, debuted alongside collage work at The Gallery George in Vancouver, Canada.

2024

Poetry: Marmo Cotto (Baked Marble), published in the December 2024 Château d'Orquevaux poetry chapbook.

Poetry: The Box Of Broken Hearts, published in Missing Pieces Grief Anthology from Quillkeepers Press.

2022

Novel: Woman On The Wall.

2006-2012

Editor and Publisher, Our Big Earth Media, a Canadian family publication.

1993-2006

Newspaper and magazine articles in publications across North America.


Awards:

1996: National Mental Health Association Media Award

1996: Golden Bell Award for Feature Writing

1996: Illinois Press Association Award for Feature Writing

1997-99: Pacific Northwest Society of Professional Journalist Awards (3)

1997-99: Associated Press Breaking News Writing Awards (3)

2023: Finalist, Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Book Awards for BC Authors


Residencies and Training:

2026

Château Saint Pierre de Mejans, France Artist In Residence

2025

Collage training with Canadian collage artist Lisa Pijuan-Nomura

Photo Trouvée Magazine Virtual Residency training with collage artists Juliana Naufel and Twiggy Boyer.

2024

Château Orquevaux, France Writer In Residence

2022 & 2024

Cyfarwydd 1&2 training in folklore writing with Welsh mythologist Angharad Wynne

 


Memberships:

The Writer's Union of Canada, 2022-Present

Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) - 2025-Present

International Council on Archives/Conseil International Des Archives - 2026-Present

Federation of BC Writers, 2019-Present

Alliance of Independent Authors, 2022-Present

Historical Novel Society, 2019-Present


Education:

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 1993 B.A.