2024

Moreover: 50 more paintings, curated by Michelle Grabner, Green Gallery, Milwaukee Wi

2023

Nocturne, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago Il

Headspace, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland Ohio

InDepth, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design

2022

Inside Out, Scroll, NYC

2021
In Here, Studio E, Seattle WA

2019
Plus One, Mt Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Of Course I Haven’t Forgotten, Warbling Collective, London UK
Observation and Imagination, Missouri Valley College, Missouri

2018
Paper Cuts, Saatchi Gallery, London UK
Bathers, with Kers Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands
Monomania, George Gallery, NYC
Art The Hague, with Kers Gallery, The Hague
Art On Paper Amsterdam, with Kers Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands
Return To The Garden, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati OH
Scaffold, curated by Matt Kleberg, The Garage, Richmond VA,
Reading Between the Lines, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA
Winter Group Show, Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen DK
Key Change curated by Eric Sutphin, Agency, NYC

 2017
Settling The Ghost, Young Space and Standard Projects, Hortonville WI
It Will Be More Like Scratching Then Writing (Curated by Matt Morris), Goldfinch, Chicago Ill
Cities, Like Dreams, Swamps where Cedars Grow, The Provincial, Kaleva MI
Room With A View, Curating Contemporary, Online Exhibition
Portals, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago Ill

2016
Painters of Interest, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fiction (With only daylight between us), Boeker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany
It’s a Heads-Up Game!, Taylor University, Upland Indiana
Go Figure, Ohio Arts Council Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2015
Privacy Made Public, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Spring Invitational, Heike Pickett Gallery, Versailles, Kentucky

2014
Image Makers, Novella Gallery, NYC
Heart of Art, Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC
The Figure Today, Tew Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
Fall Invitational, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
Places and Spaces, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
Works On Paper, Tew Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
Perceptual Painting, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Remote Viewing, Curating Contemporary (online exhibition)
Color Imagined and Observed, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

2013
Certain Densities, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Drawings and Works on paper, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Grey Matter, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Continuity and Change, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio

2012
Curators Choice, with USBank ascent program and Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Works by Gallery Artists, Waterhouse and Dodd, London, The United Kingdom

2018
ArtMaze Magazine, Artist Spotlight, Winter
Boston Accent Lit, Emil Robinson, Ecstatic Space Series Issue 9
ArtVerge, Interview and Feature: Ecstatic Spaces and Abstract Landscapes January 2018

2017
Artists Magazine, Going Abstract, September

2016
Painters Table, Conversation with Emil Robinson, August
Aeqai, Off The Wall, February
Columbus Dispatch, Review of Go Figure, February
WVXU Around Cincinnati, aired March 4

2015
WVXU Around Cincinnati, aired July10

2013
Cincinnati Art Museum newsletter, Contemporary Figurative Realism In Cincinnati, December
Fine Art Conniseur, Works on paper at Maxwell Alexander Gallery, January

2011
Painting Perceptions, Interview with Emil Robinson August
Lawfully Chic, This is not an Ikea Lamp, September
Drawing/ Space, Form, and Expression, 4th edition, July
Huffington Post, Painters Table: Top Ten Best posts, May
Aeqai, Narrative Figuration, May 15
Aeqai, The Artists Of Narrative Figuration discuss their work, April 18
IspyCincy.com, Talk and Quaff, April 11
Cincinnati City Beat, Getting Real, April 12
Cincy Magazine, Featured Tristate Artist, April
Cincinnati City Beat, Best of Cincinnati 2011, March 30
Cincinnati Enquirer, Artist ‘makes most of least’, March  27
Cincinnati CityBeat, City beat recommends, March 23
Cincinnati Enquirer, Local entertainment scene shines, January 9

2010
Aeqai, Gateways: Kim and Robinson, October
Cincinnati City Beat, Something Old  Something New, August 18

2009
The Washington Post, Portraits not just a moment in time, November 13
Lexington herald Leader, Artist Uses Taft exhibit to reflect his own life, August 30
Aeqai, An Artist’s Realist connections with abstraction, August
Cincinnati Artsnob, Artword: Emil Robinson, July

2008
For A Better World, Poems and drawings on peace and justice by greater Cincinnati artists, April
Cincinnati City Beat, An American in London (the Q&A), March 12
Cincinnati City Beat, An American in London, March 

2007
University of Cincinnati, Winning work earns alum prestigious grant- and a chance to live in London
The Artist’s Magazine, Not Still Life, April
The Artist’s magazine, Portrait of the artist as a young man, March

2006
Cincinnati Post, Manifest Milestone, July 28

Publications As Author

2016
Aeqai, Glenn Brown at the Contemporary Arts Center, October 8
Aeqai, The Liminal Landscape at Marta Hewitt Gallery, April 23
Aeqai, Emil Robinson interviews sculptor/installation artist Matt Jones, April 23
Aeqai, Review of Kim Flora, Mike Hancock, and Bill Renschler at Aisle Gallery, May 19
Aeqai, A Vessel Filling Slowly, John Zurier, March 20

2014
Aeqai, Review of Cody Gunningham at Richard Butz gallery, October 4
Aeqai, Shall I tell You the Secret of the Whole World? Painting Parody and Disguise. May 24

2013
Aeqai, Review of degas renoir and Poetic Pastels at the Cincinnati Art Museum November 24
Aeqai, Landscapes Re-framed, Sculpture by Celene Hawkins, September 22
Aeqai, William Mcgee Works 1954-1977, April 20

2012

Aeqai, The Marjorie Schiele Prize, December 18
Aeqai, Laurel Nakadate, Polaroids from “Stay the Same Never Change”, October 22
Aeqai, Joseph Winterhalter at Clay Street Press, April 14
Aeqai, David Miretsky’s Allegory of Painting, March 18 

2011
Aeqai, Cole Carothers, Dec. 15
Aeqai, The Wettest Year On Record, Nov.15

Visiting Artist/ Presentations

2018-19
Manifest Gallery
Drawing America
St Francis University

2016
Taylor University
Gonzaga University
Manifest Gallery
Ohio Wesleyan University

2015
Bowling Green State University

2014
University of Central Missouri
University of Indiana Bloomington

2011
University of Kentucky

 Honors

2017
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

2016
Ohio Senate letter of honor for remarkable attainment

2009
Prize Winner of Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition,
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.

2008
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for artistic achievement