Robin Birdd David (she/her and they/them) is a Filipino American multidisciplinary artist based in Emeryville, California, Huchiun, in unceded Lisjan Territory on Ohlone land. Birdd is the co-founder and Creative Director of the art collective Macro Waves.
Birdd’s practice is multidisciplinary, focusing on conceptual, installation, new media, and performance-based work. Birdd’s work centers on the unrequited relationship between our bodies and the systems we live in by studying objects that are often commodities found in the physical and virtual spaces. Their practice focuses on transporting the human body outside of these systems by utilizing play, make-belief, humor, design, and sci-fi as vehicles of investigation. Through dissecting the personification of these commodities, Birdd can dive deeper into our connection with the constructs we live in as a starting point to reimagine alternative realities.
Born in 1988, Birdd received a BA in Studio Art at San Francisco State University in 2014. Birdd, in partnership with their collective, Macro Waves, was the 2024 recipient of the Ruth Arts Artist Choice Award. In 2023, Macro Waves was an artist in residency at Recology in San Francisco and commissioned to create a mural for SFMOMA’s Koret Education Center. In 2022, the collective was the featured artist at the United States of Asian America Festival, hosted by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and also participated in the 2022 SFMOMA Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park, featured in KQED's “The Soapbox Derby's Wild Downhill Action in San Francisco.”
Contact:
rob@robinbirdd.com