Robin Hustle is a ceramicist, writer, and community health nurse who makes work about foraging, labor, pleasure, ecosystems, bodies, sex work, and nurturance. She is a lifelong resident of the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, where she lives with her girlfriend and their cat Agnes Mountain.
ig: @porouslyours
Selected Publications
Zines
2020 Robin Hustle’s Fenestrated Shape
2019 Careful Material (with Thomas Kong)
2015 FEELINGS
2011 Curdled Milk
2009 Leftover’s Again?!
2004-2008 Mirror Tricks 1-3
Contributing Editor
2011-2012 The Land Line (quarterly)
2006-2008 The Skeleton News (monthly)
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Robin Hustle’s Fenestrated Shape
Roman Susan, Chicago
2018 SLIT WAVE SHEATH HEARTH
The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, Chicago
2013 Robin Hustle
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Curation
2013 Slippery Slope
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Curated by Robin Hustle, with work by Virginia Aberle, Margaret Bobo-Dancy, Clothilde, Megan Diddie, Mikey Estes, Darcy Fangi, Sarah Faux, Ektor Maria Garcia, Vanessa Harris, Alyssa Herlocher, Young Joon Kwak, Daniel Luedtke, Noelle Mason, Ulrike Müller, Betsy Odom, Caroline Picard, Ruby Thorkelson, Xara Thustra, Lainey Waugh, Shoshanna Weinberger, and Dustin Yager
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Raw/Cooked; curated by Ulrike Müller
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Ulrike Müller’s Herstory Inventory: 100 feministische Zeichnungen von 100 KünstlerInnen
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2011 Underground; curated by Ruby Thorkelson
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Bless this Mess
Edie Fake, Lee Relvas, Robin Hustle, and Forced into Femininity
Gallery 400, Chicago
2010 Hey, We’re All Beginners Here!; curated by Mike Wolf
Roots & Culture, Chicago
Other Collaborations
2021 Grant co-designer and panelist, The Artist Grant / Community Artist’s Grant Project
Reva & David Logan Foundation
2019 Flag for the W Club Project, curated by Kristin and Nathan Abhalter Smith
Exhibited at the Rogers Park Woman’s Club, and at The Leather Archives & Museum
2019 Ruth-in-residence / Careful Material with Thomas Kong
The Back Room at Kim’s Corner Food, Chicago
Granted by Propeller Fund