bio
Currently based in Vancouver, Robyn Adams is an award winning Red River Métis and Ukrainian architectural designer, artist and filmmaker. She is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation with Michif family who took scrip in Rat River Settlement.
She is the founder of Bright Earth Studio based in Vancouver, BC and is a recent dual Masters of Architecture and Landscape Architecture graduate from the University of British Columbia. She was a participant in BIDC, a Black and Indigenous Design Collective as a Public Art Intensive participant, and she's hosted workshops on Indigenous Futurism in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Her art work has been exhibited across Turtle Island, including at imagineNATIVE film festival (where she won an award for her video game Kinship Table), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Canadian Film Fest and featured in the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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FRENCH BIO
ROBYN ADAMS est citoyenne Métisse de la rivière Rouge, membre de la Manitoba Métis Federation. Fondatrice de Bright Earth Studio, situé au Vancouver, C.-B. elle a récemment obtenu une double maîtrise en architecture et en architecture de paysage à l’université de la Colombie-Britannique. Son travail tisse des liens entre l’art, l’architecture et les savoirs autochtones ancrés dans le territoire.
Press + mEDIA
By Deena Goodrunning, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
June 17, 2026
"... Robyn started weaving in folklore beings she had been thinking about for years, pairing each being with a different housing type and architectural setting.
“The idea of Kinship Table comes from the idea of a kitchen party,” Adams said.
The title nods to the kitchen table, the centre of many prairie homes and a place where families gather to share food and knowledge.
“In Métis scholarship and community, I started to see a lot of kitchen table methodology and the idea of gathering, visiting, sharing, eating, intergenerational knowledge sharing and beading all around the kitchen table,” Adams said. “That was kind of my inspiration for the game.” For her, the beings in the game are also part of that web of relationships..." cont. reading "here"
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Applied Science Rising Star Interview
"...The friendships made while working in studio with classmates—sharing ideas, working endless nights, and being gifted the ability to collaborate in art making will forever be my favourite memories made at SALA." cont. reading "HERE".
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts NEWS interview, June 23rd, 2025.
"...Manitoba is my home, I grew up between Winnipeg and an hour north in Sandy Hook surrounded by prairie wildlife. As a kid, I spent a lot of time in the fields with my family. My dad is a water fowl hunter and we had a cottage in the interlake. My favourite thing to do would be swimming in the south basin on Lake Winnipeg or Birds Hill Park. This beadwork piece that I made is inspired by different native plants from those bodies of water and land..." cont. reading "HERE".
Reimagine Architect designer feature, September 12, 2023.
"...Métis bison hunters would hunt on horseback, and they would drop a piece of their family’s beadwork (like gauntlets or a firebag) when they hunted bison to mark it so others wouldn’t think it was theirs. Because each family has distinct beadwork patterns this would communicate to the community that this bison belonged to a certain family, and then the bison hunter could continue hunting while the women or other family would process the bison for use and food. This is an example of how integral Métis traditions are to family, craft, and land-based activity..." cont reading "here".