Daniel Robbins

Daniel Robbins grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia and always wanted to create art.  During grades 4-8 he was enrolled in the Old Donation Center for the Gifted and Talented, and in high school he continued his study of art at the Governor’s School for the Arts.  He moved to Richmond, VA to study in the Communication Arts department at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), which is ranked as one of the top art schools in the country.  While at VCU he received multiple awards for his artistic and academic achievement, including: Most Outstanding Junior and Senior in Communication Arts, Dean’s List, and a scholarship from the New York Society of Illustrators’ Student Competition. 

After he received his B.F.A. in 2006, Daniel taught drawing and painting as an adjunct faculty member in the Communication Arts department at VCU until 2021.  He has also exhibited his paintings in galleries in New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Charleston, Boston, Maryland, and Park City, Utah.  Daniel has received numerous honors and awards including: Award of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition; Best in Show at the “Virginia Artists Juried Exhibition,” in Hampton, VA; Virginia’s Finest Artist at the “Boardwalk Art Festival,” in Virginia Beach, VA; Best in Show at the Gloucester Plein Air Festival and Richmond Plein Air Festival; Artist’s Choice Award at “Plein Air Easton; and he wrote “The Road Not Taken” for the Artists on Art publication.  He was also named as one of “21 Under 31” artists to collect by Southwest Art Magazine and “10 Artists to Collect Now: The Emerging Plein Air Painters You Need to Know” by Plein Air Magazine.

Daniel Robbins continues to live and work in Richmond, Virginia.