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SUMMARY:Root Division: Trina Michelle Robinson - Open Your Eyes to Water (opening reception)
DESCRIPTION:500 Capp Street and Root Division present Open Your Eyes to Water\, a solo exhibition of the work of San Francisco-based visual artist Trina Michelle Robinson that spans both venues. \nOpen at 500 Capp Street February 13th-May 16\, 2026 \nFridays and Saturdays 12pm-5pm at 500 Capp Street \nOpening Reception: February 14\, 2026\, 12-3pm at 500 Capp Street\, 3-5pm at Root Division \nTickets can be reserved to the Opening Reception for free here. \nFor nearly a decade\, Robinson has utilized an embodied\, research-based\, and multidisciplinary approach rooted in personal and historical archives to create immersive installations that engage ancestry\, memory\, and the layered geographies of Black migration. Robinson’s interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly across film\, printmaking\, sound\, and installation.  \nAt 500 Capp Street\, Robinson will create a living installation tracing her years-long cross-continental engagement with family lineage and movement from Senegal\, to Kentucky\, Chicago\, and California. At Root Division\, the artist will present an expanded version of Elegy for Nancy (2022)—a tender tribute to her oldest known ancestor\, a woman named Nancy who was born in 1770s Kentucky\, then still part of Virginia. The installation will feature special altar contributions from Bay Area Black women artists\, highlighting how collective knowledge\, imagination\, and care can reframe historical erasure. \nAbout the Artist \nTrina Michelle Robinson is a San Francisco-based visual artist. Her work has been exhibited at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia\, the San Francisco Art Commission Main Gallery\, ICA San José\, Minnesota Street Project\, New York’s Wassaic Project\, Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and For-Site’s Black Gold: Stories Untold. Her work is also included in Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures\, a traveling exhibition co-curated by Tia Blassingame and Stephanie Sauer\, which was at San Francisco Center for the Book in 2024 and in Atlanta in 2025. She had a solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)\, a Smithsonian Affiliate. Robinson is a 2024 SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and  was recently nominated for the 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) Award. Her print series Ghost Prints of Loss is included in the book Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?\, published in 2023 by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. She received her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2022. \nOpen Your Eyes to Water is supported at 500 Capp Street by Teiger Foundation and at Root Division by Grants for the Arts and San Francisco Arts Commission.
URL:https://missionlocal.org/event/root-division-trina-michelle-robinson-open-your-eyes-to-water-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Root Division\, 1131 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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