Robin Melton Jordan was born in Pittsburgh, PA., but grew up in Kentucky, Florida and North Carolina.  She moved to New York City in her twenties, where she studied at The Art Student's League, Sculpture Center, and Pratt. Jordan currently has studios in Staten Island, NY.  
 
Jordan's art is rooted in her exposure to the vernacular art of the South, her studies in the applied arts, and in her immersion in the contemporary art world of New York City. She recycles studio scraps and found objects with post-consumer detritus to create what she calls urban faux-folk art. Her recent sculptures start with a steel "drawing" that forms negative spaces into which she pours polymer that catches an array of found materials or inserts machine embroidered collages of garden imagery into the plot-like voids.
 

Robin’s initial studies were at The Art Student's League, which she selected for its freedom and affordability. There she received a year's scholarship to study drawing with Marshall Glaiser and sculpture with Sidney Simon. Later she studied woodcarving with Jose de Creft at his 23rd Street studio, and welding with Frank Costa at the Sculpture Center in her early twenties. She returned to the ASL in the early 2000’s and studied watercolor with Fred Wong, and mixed media with Bruce Dorfman. Returning again in 2011—2016 to study welding with Cliff Dufton, and Haksul Lee and in the welding studios at the ASL.

Jordan has most recently shown work in BWAC, Fearless Watercolors—“Acuarelas con Cojones” Brooklyn, NY in 2024. In 2023, Jordan showed a textile wall sculpture in—“Tenuous Threads”, at the Atlantic Gallery in NYC.