Caroleigh has received regional and internatonal grant awards, fellowships and has participated in a variety of exhibitions in the USA, France, Mexico and Cuba.

She is the recipient of the Walter Hopps and Thomas Krens Fellowship Award at CAC – North Adams, MA., La Napoule Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, The North Carolina Arts Council artist-in-residence award, The Puffin Foundation travel grant to Cuba, The Vermont Studio Center artist-in-residence grant, Emerging Artist Grants from The Raleigh Arts Council, Durham Arts Council and many project honoraria from museums, galleries and art centers.

Noteworthy exhibitions include “Globalization” at a Shenere Velt Gallery in Los Angeles, California, “Taboo” at the Artist’s Union, Ventura, California. “Toxic Landscapes-Artists Examine the Environment” sponsored by the Puffin Foundation - Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham College, Pennsylvania in conjunction with “We Are Here and WASTE (Women Assess the State of the Environment”), Jose Marti Bibliotheca in Havana, Cuba., “Art on Paper” at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery (UNC-Greensboro), “Road in Sight” at Duke University, “Hello Again” at The Tryon Center for Art, Charlotte, NC., “Herb Parker and Caroleigh Robinson at the Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC.

Mixed media works on paper, paintings, sculpture, installation, photography explore the ecological and psychological impact of the “petroleum age”. The combustion engine, as a post-modern signature pattern, shapes and defines physical geography and the psychological interaction of human space defining sources of environmental degradation, class division, social fragmentation, the compression of natural resources resulting in global conflict.