Walter Robinson

Walter Robinson is an American artist, art critic, and founding editor of Artnet Magazine, known for coining the term "Zombie Formalism" and for his Pop-influenced paintings that blend advertising imagery with gestural brushwork. His work emerged from the Pictures Generation milieu and often features nostalgic, commercialized subjects like puppies, sunsets, and consumer products rendered in a deliberately slick, illustrational style that critiques while celebrating mass culture. Robinson has exhibited widely including at Metro Pictures in New York, and his work is held in major collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art.