Stacey Robinson

Core faculty

• Associate Professor of Graphic Design + Design for Responsible Innovation + Studio
• Graduate Coordinator for DRI MFA Program

Contact

staceyr@illinois.edu

Address

143 Art and Design Building
408 E. Peabody Dr.
Champaign IL, 61820

About Stacey Robinson

Cosmic Listening

Digital Collage | 2016

Biography

Stacey A. Robinson, MFA, born in Albany, NY is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The influence of science fiction, Black liberation politics, and comic books fuel Stacey’s multimedia practice. He moved to NYC the day that Tupac died and the next day became an intern for Milestone Media Inc., a Black owned comic book company that inspired many of today’s comic creators. Soon after he interned at Black Enterprise magazine, and Acclaim Comics. Soon he moved to Fayetteville, NC where he attained his associates, and bachelors degrees while working professionally as a graphic designer. Receiving a full scholarship, and the Arthur Schomburg Fellowship he attended the SUNY Buffalo where he received his MFA in 2015.

Cosmic Listening

Digital Collage | 2016

Nightboy: the Paladin of the Night

Digital Drawing | 2022

Artist Statement

Stacey A. Robinson, Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was a 2019-2020 Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and completed his MFA at the University at Buffalo in 2015. He a graphic designer, exhibition artist, illustrator, graphic novelist. and DJ.

His multimedia work discusses decolonized Black futures through collage, motion graphics, illustration, and DJing. His collaborations include Black Kirby along with John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California Riverside, BLACKMAU along with UIUC psychologist Kamau Grantham, BSAM (the Black Speculative Arts Movement), and Darker Than Blue a DJ quintet based in Champaign-Urbana.