Robin Birdd David (she/her and they/them) is a Filipino American multidisciplinary artist based in Emeryville, California. Robin is also the co-founder and Creative Director of the art collective Macro Waves, founded in 2015.
Robin’s practice is multidisciplinary, focusing on conceptual, installation, new media, and performance-based work. Robin’s work centers on the unrequited relationship between our bodies and the systems we live in, studying objects that are often commodities found in both physical and virtual spaces. Her practice focuses on transporting the human body beyond these systems by utilizing play, make-believe, humor, design, and sci-fi as vehicles of investigation. By dissecting the personification of these commodities, Robin dives deeper into our connection to the constructs we live in, using this as a starting point to reimagine alternative realities. A major part of Robin’s practice is her work leading projects with Macro Waves. Rooted in intersectional collaboration and social practice, Macro Waves transforms spaces into platforms for community engagement, critical discourse, and collective action. Through creative technology, design, and research, the collective produces interactive experiences, exhibitions, site-specific installations, and interdisciplinary projects that explore community care and future world-building.
Born in 1988, Robin received a BA in Studio Art at San Francisco State University in 2014. Birdd, in partnership with their collective, Macro Waves, was the 2025 - 2028 recipient of the Ruth Arts Core Grant Award and the 2024 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