“Having one’s identity dismantled, marginalized, and regulated to non-human status demands action. This led me to critically engage image-making in art history and pop-culture, and ultimately grapple with whatever power and authority these images have over the female figure.”
Deborah Roberts
(b. Austin, Texas, 1962)
Deborah Roberts is a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the United States and Europe. Roberts’ work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, among several other institutions. She was selected to participate in the Rauschenberg Residency (2019) and was a finalist for the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, as well as the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2018), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016), and the Texas Medal of Arts Award (2023).
Roberts received her MFA from Syracuse University, New York. She is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, California.
