Robert Hawkins (b. 1951, Sunnyvale, California) is an American artist who lives and works in London. A fabled figure of the 1980s and early 1990s East Village art and punk scene, his work is and has been collected by artists and writers including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Glenn O’Brien, and Jim Jarmusch. Among Hawkins’ first exhibitions was Lower Manhattan Drawing Show, a group exhibition curated by Keith Haring at 77 White Street Gallery above the Mudd Club in 1981. Recent exhibitions include Somewhere Downtown: Art in 1980s New York, (2022-23) curated by Carlo McCormick and Peter Eleey at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and Robert Hawkins: Dream Mine (2023) at Off Paradise, New York.