Artist Statement

My lens-based work is situated at the intersection of still photography, the moving image, and installation. I explore temporality, place, and identity, as experienced during periods of transition- addressing change, uncertainty, and resiliency. The intersections and juxtapositions of image and surface inform my approach to physically and digitally layering photographs- positioning projections to transform and merge with surfaces and objects to address the ways in which our memories or anxieties inform our perception of the present.  

The subtle performative process inherent in my still photography is central to my moving image work, whether discrete video or integral elements of an installation. In these works, I manipulate the screen, a translucent material, during the projection and filming. This performative element speaks to the effort of shaping the elusive through repeated attempts of control and manipulation.

Short Bio

Born and raised in Oklahoma, Roberts holds an MFA in Photography and Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017), an MA in visual art from Minnesota State University-Mankato (2013), and a BA in Fine Arts and Journalism (photography and photojournalism) from Indiana University- Bloomington.  

Roberts’ work has been published in Manifest International Photography Annual, INPHA 5, and several photography journals including SHOTS, All About Photo, and Pastiche. Her video work has been exhibited in Movements, Moments, Target Gallery, VA (2021); Contemporary Landscape, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea (2020); 3rd Muestra de Video Arte Faenza, Bogotá, Colombia (2020); Reservoir, Intersect Arts Gallery, MO (2020); Art from the Heartland, Indianapolis Art Center, IN (2018); and Futility, Aggregate Space Gallery, CA (2017). Roberts’ awards and grants include a University of Wisconsin Arts Institute Award for her MFA work (2017), a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant (2014), and a Fiber Artist Project Grant through the Textile Center of Minnesota (2014, 2009).

Ms. Roberts is currently based in St. Petersburg, Florida.


CV- Highlights

EDUCATION

2017     Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

2013     Master of Arts (MA) in Visual Arts, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato, MN

1988     Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Fine Arts and Journalism, Indiana University-Bloomington, IN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021    Trace, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI

2021    Ask Her What Doesn’t Change, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2020    Video Screening Series, The Bubbler, Madison Public Library, Madison, WI

2018    Entwined, Rae Koolimaja, Rae Cultural Centre, Vaskjala, Estonia

2017   Vicissitude, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2017   Anamnesis, The Ahrnsbrak Room, University of Wisconsin- Marathon County, Wausau, WI

2016   The Thing Not There, MA Exhibition, Gallery 7, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2015    Gaze Even Here, MN Artist Initiative Grant Exhibition, Waseca Art Center, Waseca, MN

2014    Fractured Nostalgia, PLRAC/McKnight Fellowship, The 410 Project, Mankato, MN

2013    Mythology of Control, MA Thesis Exhibition, Conkling Gallery, MN State Univ., Mankato, MN

2011    Material Marks, Emy Frentz Arts Guild, Mankato, MN

2010    Stitched Abstraction, Waseca Art Center, Waseca, MN

2009    A Varying Tale, School of Art Gallery, Mankato, MN

TWO/THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019     Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery, Alma College, Alma, MI

2015     Overlap, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI

2014     Truth Telling, Jerome Fiber Artist Project Grant Exhibit, Concordia Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN

2011     Healing Arts Program, Featured Artist, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI

2010     Mind at Hand, Jerome Fiber Artists Project Grant Exhibition, Joan Mondale Gallery,  Minneapolis, MN

SELECTED JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022     Chinese Gan Jue, Int’l Moving Image Virtual Gallery Exhibition, South China Museum

2022 Glimpses of a Drowned World, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

2021     Traces of the Future, Momentum Gallery, Krakow, Poland

2021     ROMBAK, Multimedia University, Cyberjala, Malaysia

2021    Movements, Moments, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA

2020    Contemporary Landscape 2020, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2020    III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza (VAF), Video Festival, Bogotá, Colombia

2020    Reservoir, Intersect Arts Center, St Louis, MO

2019    Material, PH21 Photography Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2018   Still Life: Elevating the Mundane, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

2018    Art from the Heartland, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN 

2018    Metamorphosis, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., VT

2018    MAVF-MiniArtVideoFestival, Dual Galleria, Budapest, Hungary

2018    Familiar/Familial, Photo-Emphasis

2018    Futility, time-based exhibition, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

2018    Photowork 2018, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

2017    Art Through the Lens, International Juried Exhibition, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY

2017    Off the Wall, video art screening series, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI

2016    Untitled 12: SooVAC’s Juried Exhibition, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS

2019 Invited Fellows Residency, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT

2019 Ateljé Stundars, Vaasa, Finland

2018   Copper Leg AIR, Juri (Tallinn), Estonia

2018   Jentel Arts, Banner, WY

2018   Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE

2018   Hinge Arts, Fergus Falls, MN

2017   I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT

2017   Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, Rabun Gap, GA

GRANTS / AWARDS

2017   Sanaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship, UW Arts Institute Award, UW- Madison, WI

2014    Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board

2014    Jerome Fiber Artists Project Grant, Textile Center of Minnesota

2013    Fellowship Grant, Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council/McKnight

2013   Professional Development Grant, Surface Design Association

2010    Emerging Artist Grant, Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council/McKnight

2009    Jerome Fiber Artists Project Grant, Textile Center of Minnesota

2008    Emerging Artist Grant, Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council/McKnight