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'''Deborah Roberts''' is an American [[contemporary artist]] living and working in [[Austin, Texas]]. Roberts is a mixed media [[collage]] artist whose figurative works depict the complexity of Black subjecthood and explores themes of race, identity, and gender politics taking on the subject of otherness as understood against the backdrop of existing societal norms of race and beauty. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the US and Europe. Roberts’s work is in the collections of the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York; [[Brooklyn Museum]], New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. Roberts was named 2023 Texas Medal of Arts Award Honoree for the Visual Arts. Roberts was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and is a recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016), and the Ginsburg-Klaus Award Fellowship (2014). She received her MFA from Syracuse University, New York. She lives and works in Austin, Texas. Roberts is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, and Vielmetter Los Angeles.
'''Deborah Roberts''' (born 1962) is an American [[contemporary artist]]. Roberts is a mixed media [[collage]] artist whose figurative works depict the complexity of Black subjecthood and explores themes of race, identity, and gender politics taking on the subject of otherness as understood against the backdrop of existing societal norms of race and beauty. Roberts was named 2023 Texas Medal of Arts Award Honoree for the Visual Arts. She lives in [[Austin, Texas]].

== Early life and education ==
Deborah Roberts was born on November 1962, in Austin, Texas.

She received a BFA degree from the [[University of North Texas]]; and a MFA degree from [[Syracuse University]].


== Work ==
== Work ==
Roberts’s work challenges the existing notion of a universal beauty, arguing instead for a more inclusive and subjective understanding of visual culture. By combining found and manipulated images with hand drawn and painted details, Roberts leverages the artistic practice of collage to uplift and dimensionalize her subjects, often taking the form of young girls and, more increasingly, Black boys. The boys and girls who populate her work, while invariably bound to the complicated the problematic narratives defining [[American people|American]], [[African American]] and [[art history]], are, at the same time, free and able to forge their own paths and form their own identities.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 14, 2021|title=Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn't Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/deborah-roberts-has-exhibited-art-worldwide-she-hasnt-had-a-solo-museum-show-in-her-hometown-until-now/|website=Texas Monthly}}</ref>
Roberts’s work challenges the existing notion of a universal beauty, arguing instead for a more inclusive and subjective understanding of visual culture. By combining found and manipulated images with hand drawn and painted details, Roberts leverages the artistic practice of collage to uplift and dimensionalize her subjects, often taking the form of young girls and, more increasingly, Black boys. The boys and girls who populate her work, while invariably bound to the complicated the problematic narratives defining [[American people|American]], [[African American]] and [[art history]], are, at the same time, free and able to forge their own paths and form their own identities.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 14, 2021|title=Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn't Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/deborah-roberts-has-exhibited-art-worldwide-she-hasnt-had-a-solo-museum-show-in-her-hometown-until-now/|website=Texas Monthly}}</ref>


== Exhibitions ==
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The show "Deborah Roberts: I’m" traveled to the Contemporary Austin, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Art + Practice in Los Angeles, and the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens.<ref name="PRINT Magazine">{{cite web |last1=Beach |first1=Charlotte |title=Deborah Roberts' Exhibition Gets a Catalog, Coffee-Table Book, and Website Courtesy of Pentagram |url=https://www.printmag.com/design-news/deborah-roberts-im/ |website=PRINT Magazine |access-date=15 May 2022 |date=2 February 2022}}</ref> She has also exhibited at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia; LACMA, Los Angeles, California; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, among various other institutions.<ref name="Vice">{{Cite magazine |last=Sargent |first=Antwaun |date=March 6, 2018 |title=The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/59kapb/the-artist-changing-the-face-of-black-girlhood |access-date=5 March 2021 |journal=Vice}}</ref>
Her work has been exhibited internationally across the US and Europe. Roberts’s work is in the collections of the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York; [[Brooklyn Museum]], New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

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The show "Deborah Roberts: I’m" traveled to the Contemporary Austin, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Art + Practice in Los Angeles, and the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens.<ref name="PRINT Magazine">{{cite web |last1=Beach |first1=Charlotte |date=2 February 2022 |title=Deborah Roberts' Exhibition Gets a Catalog, Coffee-Table Book, and Website Courtesy of Pentagram |url=https://www.printmag.com/design-news/deborah-roberts-im/ |access-date=15 May 2022 |website=PRINT Magazine}}</ref> She has also exhibited at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia; LACMA, Los Angeles, California; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, among various other institutions.<ref name="Vice">{{Cite magazine |last=Sargent |first=Antwaun |date=March 6, 2018 |title=The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/59kapb/the-artist-changing-the-face-of-black-girlhood |access-date=5 March 2021 |journal=Vice}}</ref>


Roberts’s work was included in the 2022 exhibition ''Women Painting Women'' at the [[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]].<ref name="Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth">{{cite web |title=Women Painting Women |url=https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/women-painting-women |website=Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |access-date=15 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
Roberts’s work was included in the 2022 exhibition ''Women Painting Women'' at the [[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]].<ref name="Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth">{{cite web |title=Women Painting Women |url=https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/women-painting-women |access-date=15 May 2022 |website=Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Oyeniyi |first=Doyin |date=2021-01-14 |title=Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn't Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/deborah-roberts-has-exhibited-art-worldwide-she-hasnt-had-a-solo-museum-show-in-her-hometown-until-now/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=[[Texas Monthly]] |language=en}}</ref>


== Collections ==
== Collections ==
Roberts's work is in the collections of:
Roberts's work is in the collections of:


* Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
* Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
* Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts<ref>{{Cite news |title=Deborah Roberts |url=https://www.icaboston.org/artists/deborah-roberts/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |work=ICA Boston |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
* Scottish National Galleries, Scotland, UK
* Scottish National Galleries, Scotland, UK
* SFMoMA, San Francisco, California<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roberts, Deborah |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/deborah-roberts/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}</ref>
* SFMOMA San Francisco, CA
* Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
* Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
* Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
* Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois
* Brooklyn Museum, New York City, New York<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crisscrossing, Deborah Roberts |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224304 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=Brooklyn Museum}}</ref>
* Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
* The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
* The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
* Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
* Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
* Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
* Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida
* Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
* Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, New York
* Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
* Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deborah Roberts |url=https://whitney.org/artists/18617 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref>


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
Roberts was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and is a recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016), and the Ginsburg-Klaus Award Fellowship (2014).
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!Year
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!Award received
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|2023
|2023
|Texas Metal of Arts Honoree for Visual Art by the Texas Cultural Trust
|Texas Metal of Arts Honoree for Visual Art
|Texas Cultural Trust, Texas, U.S.
|-
|-
|2019
|2019
|Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Finalist
|[[Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition]], finalist
|[[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]], Washington, D.C., U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=(At Home) On Art and Identity: Artist Talk with Deborah Roberts |url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/at-home-on-art-and-identity-artist-talk-with-deborah-roberts/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian |language=en}}</ref>
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|-
|2018
|2018
|Anonymous Was a Woman, New York, NY
|[[Anonymous Was A Woman Award|Anonymous Was a Woman]]
|New York City, New York, U.S.
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|-
|2017
|2017
|Artist of the Year, Austin, TX
|Artist of the Year
|Austin, Texas, U.S.
|-
|-
|2016
|2016
|Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grantee
|[[Pollock-Krasner Foundation]], Grantee
|New York City, New York, U.S.
|-
|-
|2014
|2014
|SU MFA Exhibition “Best in Show”
|SU MFA Exhibition “Best in Show”,
Syracuse University Graduate Research Fellow (2011-2014)
Syracuse University Graduate Research Fellow (2011–2014)
|New York, U.S.
|-
|-
|2008
|2008
|Artist of the Year, Austin, TX
|Artist of the Year
|Austin, Texas, U.S.
|-
|-
|1991
|1991
|President Point of Light Recipient, President George H. Bush
|President Point of Light Recipient, President George H. Bush
|Texas, U.S.
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Revision as of 02:00, 21 June 2024

This article is about the American artist. For the American television journalist, see Deborah Roberts.
File:Deborah Roberts artiste.jpg
Deborah Roberts
BornNovember 1962 (1962-11) (age 61)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater
  • University of North Texas (BFA)
  • Syracuse University (MFA)
Known for
Websitedeborahrobertsart.com

Deborah Roberts (born 1962) is an American contemporary artist. Roberts is a mixed media collage artist whose figurative works depict the complexity of Black subjecthood and explores themes of race, identity, and gender politics taking on the subject of otherness as understood against the backdrop of existing societal norms of race and beauty. Roberts was named 2023 Texas Medal of Arts Award Honoree for the Visual Arts. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Early life and education

Deborah Roberts was born on November 1962, in Austin, Texas.

She received a BFA degree from the University of North Texas; and a MFA degree from Syracuse University.

Work

Roberts’s work challenges the existing notion of a universal beauty, arguing instead for a more inclusive and subjective understanding of visual culture. By combining found and manipulated images with hand drawn and painted details, Roberts leverages the artistic practice of collage to uplift and dimensionalize her subjects, often taking the form of young girls and, more increasingly, Black boys. The boys and girls who populate her work, while invariably bound to the complicated the problematic narratives defining American, African American and art history, are, at the same time, free and able to forge their own paths and form their own identities.[1]

Exhibitions

Her work has been exhibited internationally across the US and Europe. Roberts’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

The show "Deborah Roberts: I’m" traveled to the Contemporary Austin, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Art + Practice in Los Angeles, and the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens.[2] She has also exhibited at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia; LACMA, Los Angeles, California; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, among various other institutions.[3]

Roberts’s work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[4][5]

Collections

Roberts's work is in the collections of:

  • Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts[6]
  • Scottish National Galleries, Scotland, UK
  • SFMoMA, San Francisco, California[7]
  • Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
  • Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois
  • Brooklyn Museum, New York City, New York[8]
  • The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
  • Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
  • Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida
  • Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
  • The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, New York
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York[9]

Awards

Roberts was selected to participate in the Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and is a recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016), and the Ginsburg-Klaus Award Fellowship (2014).

Year Award received Location
2023 Texas Metal of Arts Honoree for Visual Art Texas Cultural Trust, Texas, U.S.
2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, finalist National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., U.S.[10]
2018 Anonymous Was a Woman New York City, New York, U.S.
2017 Artist of the Year Austin, Texas, U.S.
2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grantee New York City, New York, U.S.
2014 SU MFA Exhibition “Best in Show”,

Syracuse University Graduate Research Fellow (2011–2014)

New York, U.S.
2008 Artist of the Year Austin, Texas, U.S.
1991 President Point of Light Recipient, President George H. Bush Texas, U.S.

References

  1. ^ "Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn't Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now". Texas Monthly. January 14, 2021.
  2. ^ Beach, Charlotte (2 February 2022). "Deborah Roberts' Exhibition Gets a Catalog, Coffee-Table Book, and Website Courtesy of Pentagram". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  3. ^ Sargent, Antwaun (March 6, 2018). "The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood". Vice. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Women Painting Women". Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  5. ^ Oyeniyi, Doyin (2021-01-14). "Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn't Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  6. ^ "Deborah Roberts". ICA Boston. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  7. ^ "Roberts, Deborah". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  8. ^ "Crisscrossing, Deborah Roberts". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  9. ^ "Deborah Roberts". whitney.org. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  10. ^ "(At Home) On Art and Identity: Artist Talk with Deborah Roberts". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
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