Biography

Robbi Firestone is a contemporary American painter and conceptual artist working between New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her practice spans three decades of sustained inquiry into how beauty, urgency, and ethical responsibility coexist in a fragile world.

Her paintings, in oil, acrylic, pastel, and graphite, emerge from sustained observation of landscape and sky, rooted in the high desert of New Mexico. These are not depictions of place but states of being: the land as inner weather, the horizon as meditation on presence and the radical act of sustained attention. Her conceptual practice, most notably the 2026 series Existential Snacks: Food for Thought, deploys mass-produced consumer materials as a Trojan horse, seductive in their familiarity and disturbing in their implications, addressing ecological collapse, cultural numbness, and the human tendency to consume without thinking.

These are not two separate bodies of work. They are one philosophical position expressed in two registers: feeling as the ground from which thought becomes possible; thought as the ground from which action becomes necessary.

Firestone's work has received formal recognition from leading figures in the contemporary art world.

Curatorial Recognition

"Robbi Firestone's Existential Snacks project is a brilliant contemporary extension of the longstanding tradition of Satirical Artworks. Innovative in her use of materials, Firestone's paintings/sculptures reveal a sense of humor, are clever and reveal a substantial insight into her subject matter which makes this series so successful."

Louis Grachos · Executive Director, SITE Santa Fe

"You are telling a powerful story...this project may take on a life of its own and take years to unfold."

Merry Scully · Head of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art · on The Infertility Project, drawing comparison to Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party

"A testament to the power of transforming personal pain into a benefit for the greater good."

Eva Borins · President, New Mexico Chapter, National Museum of Women in the Arts

The Infertility Project premiered at the United Nations in parallel with the Commission on the Status of Women. The project became the subject of a documentary film by Betsy Chasse, director of What the Bleep Do We Know, available on Amazon Prime.

Selected Press

The New York Times · Worth Magazine · The Boston Herald · The Huffington Post · Santa Fe New Mexican

Firestone's work is held in distinguished private collections across the United States.
Currently represented by 203 Fine Art · Taos, New Mexico

Studio visits by appointment · New York City & Santa Fe
info@FirestoneArt.com