Finn Robinson (b. 2000, Inverness) is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Glasgow.
His figurative paintings explore the affective pull of the art historical canon, reimagining images through personal experience, desire, and memory. This exchange of influence produces new narratives that sit on the fringes of his reality, existing between truths as unstable, shifting moments.
Finn does not seek to resolve the resulting tensions in his work. Instead, he treats them as both productive and risky, entangled with questions of consent and power.
Figures are re-formed and occupy spaces that are neither fully historical nor fully contemporary, where identities and narratives circulate across time. His paintings become sites where encounters accumulate; stage sets where characters are held in ever-shifting yet still performances.
In recent work, colour has emerged as a transformative agent, disrupting historical certainty and moving between innocence, eroticism, vulnerability and artifice. Exploring acts of passion, the work questions whether a loaded canon should be disarmed, discharged, or dismissed. His work does not aim to clarify or resolve this question. Instead, Finn seeks to continue finding ways to create as he navigates the unstable relationships of self, image, and influence.
Finn graduated with Distinction with an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art in 2026, following a BA in Painting and Printmaking in 2022, where he achieved First-Class Honours.
His work has been recognised nationally through the RSA New Contemporaries 2024, the Cass Art Prize 2025, and the Scottish Society of Artists’ Past President Prize 2026. He has also been shortlisted for the ACS Studio Prize 2026, Saatchi Art Rising Stars 2026, and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023.
Most recently, Finn held a solo exhibition with artist-run space Horsepower in Glasgow, which received national press attention.
Finn's work is held by private collectors in the UK, USA, and Europe, and has been acquired through The Royal Scottish Academy.