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.

Solo Exhibition, Mixed-media photography, October 22, 2026-January 14, 2027:  Misrememberings: Fragments of Longing & Love (Curated by North Van 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:

2025: Collage: A Promise Between Only Us, published in Photo Trouvée Magazine Issue 18.

2025: Mixed-media photography. Watershed, published in the Sfumato Art Creatives Radiant Horizons Group Exhibition catalog.

2025: Photography. Illumination, published in the Place and Spaces exhibition catalog, Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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

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

2025: 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. 

2025: Short story: Mare, a part of Ghost Stories YYC Volume 4 anthology and exhibition at the Ruberto Ostberg Gallery in Calgary, Alberta.

2025: Short story: Albertine, debuted alongside my 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.

2024: Poetry: The Box Of Broken Hearts, published in Missing Pieces Grief Anthology from Quillkeepers Press.

2022: Novel: Woman On The Wall, published September 2022.

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:

2022 & 2024 Cyfarwydd 1&2 training in folklore writing with Welsh mythologist Angharad Wynne

2024: Château Orquevaux, France Writer In Residence

2025: Collage training with Canadian collage artist Lisa Pijuan-Nomura

2025: Photo Trouvée Magazine Virtual Residency training with collage artists Juliana Naufel and Twiggy Boyer.

2026: Château Saint Pierre de Mejans, France Artist In Residence


Memberships:

The Writer's Union of Canada, 2022-Present

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