Robin Heidi Kennedy was born in Coyoacàn, in Mexico D.F. She studied both scenic and costume design at the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts and worked first as a caricature artist and later as a scenic artist in both theatre and film between the USA and Italy before dedicating herself to sculpture, exhibiting her portrait sculpture of subjects that ranged from Vladimir Horowitz to Mike Tyson both in the USA and in Italy.
By the early nineties Kennedy was looking for a neo classicism of her own within the portraiture of the female form and so endeavored to produce sculpture that would evoke individuality expressly within those limits of a simple gown, sculptures that Giovanni Carandente referred to as her “ mute Baccanti “.
Since 2004 Kennedy has divided her time between her studios in Spoleto and Brooklyn, where she has experimented with new materials producing the cast rubber statue series, “ Gli Snodabili “, the “ Interdetti “ and the “ Incapaci “ for the Galleria Bonomo and the performing portrait group “ Dummy “ for NRBQ.
The “ Theatre Cabinet per Jerome Robbins e il ritratto di lui al naturale “ in Spoleto from which copies were installed at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC , was a project that involved both studios from 2006 until it’s inauguration in 2009.
Since then she has produced several cycles of large charcoal and pastel drawings for shows in Brooklyn, NC. and Salzburg, Austria.
She is currently back to plaster portraiture, intimate female studies, in full figures.