Artist Statement
My lens-based work is situated at the intersection of still photography, moving images, 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 how 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
Roberts’s moving image work and short, experimental films have been selected for numerous film festivals and exhibited broadly- including ALC Video Art Festival, MACA- Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art (Spain); Seeing in the Dark, Fringe Arts Festival Bath (UK) Chinese Gan Jue, South China Museum; Uchi-Soto, COPA and S.A.G.E Gallery (Thailand); Glimpses of a Drowned World, Aggregate Space Gallery (CA); Traces of the Future, Momentum Gallery (Poland); ROMBAK, Multimedia University (Malaysia); Movements, Moments, Target Gallery (VA); and Contemporary Landscape 2020, CICA Museum (South Korea).
She has been published in several photography journals including SHOTS, All About Photo, Pastiche, and Harbor Review -an online space for poetry and art.
Born and raised in Oklahoma (U.S.), Roberts holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
CV- Highlights
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Horned Dorset Colony, Leonardsville, NY
2022 Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY
2019 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Invited Fellows Residency, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT
Ateljé Stundars, Vaasa, Finland
2018 Copper Leg AIR, Vaskjala(Tallinn), Estonia
Jentel Arts, Banner, WY
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
Hinge Arts, Fergus Falls, MN
2017 I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT
Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, Rabun Gap, GA
SELECTED JURIED / CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Contemporary Landscape 2025, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2023 Inner Sense, Art Fluent, Boston, MA
Uchi-Soto, COPA and S.A.G.E Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
A.I.R., Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
2022 Chinese Gan Jue, Int’l Moving Image, Virtual Gallery Exhibition, South China Museum
Glimpses of a Drowned World, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 Traces of the Future, Momentum Gallery, Krakow, Poland
ROMBAK, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Movements, Moments, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2020 Contemporary Landscape 2020, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Reservoir, Intersect Arts Center, St Louis, MO
2019 Material, PH21 Photography Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018 Art from the Heartland, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Still Life: Elevating the Mundane, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Modern Tribalism, Gaddis Gallery, Univ. of Central Oklahoma, OKC, OK
Metamorphosis, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., VT
MAVF-Mini Art Video Festival, Dual Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
Futility, time-based exhibition, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 Art Through the Lens, Int’l Juried Exhibition, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Off the Wall, video art series, Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI
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
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
EDUCATION
MFA/MA in Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
MA in Visual Arts, Minnesota State University- Mankato, MN
BA in Fine Arts and Journalism, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington, IN