Robyn Denny was born at Abinger, Surrey in 1930, and studied at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art from 1951-1957. In 1960 he helped to organize the first Situation Exhibition, an important landmark in British abstract art. In 1958 he had his first one man exhibition at Gallery One. He was a Principal Lecturer at the Slade School University of London between 1965 and 1972, and Visiting Professor at the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Art.

Exhibitions include one man shows at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Waddington Galleries and in 1973 a retrospective at the Tate Gallery. More recently his work was included in ‘ Art and the 60s: This was Tomorrow’ at Tate Britian, London.

Denny’s work can be found in many public collections, including the Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.