Expositions
Études Syracuse University Research Fellow, Syracuse, NY; MFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, (Summer Session) Pont Aven, France University of North Texas, Denton Texas, Prix Artist of the Year, Austin, TX, 2017 Pollock Krasner Foundation, Grantee, 2016 SU MFA Exhibition “Best in Show” 2014 Syracuse University Graduate Research Fellow 2011-2014 Artist of the Year, Austin Texas 2008, 2017 Creative Opportunity Grant, 2012, 2013, 2014 Syracuse University San Francisco African American Legacy Scholarship, 2010. President Point of Light Recipient, President George H. Bush 1991 Atelier MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2018 Résidences Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Florida, March - April, 2019 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL 2018 Ginsberg-Klaus Award Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Ox –Bow Art Residency, Michigan 2005 Coronado Studios Austin, TX 2006 Stone Metal Press, San Antonio TX 2006 Expositions (sélection) Expositions personnelles (Titre et date à venir) Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA March 2019 Fragile but Fixable, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2018 8Uninterrupted, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018 Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi, Spelman Museum, Atlanta, GA 2018 Untitled, Solo Booth Art Fair Miami Basel, Miami Beach, FL 2017 Ingenue, Fort Gansevoort Gallery, New York, NY 2017 Nobody’s Darling: New Works by Deborah Roberts, Christian-Green Gallery, Austin, TX 2017 Coil, Coarse, Twist, Re-twist, Art Palace, Houston, TX, 2016 One and Many, Art Palace, Houston, TX, 2014 Domestic Disturbance, Diverse Art Gallery, Austin, TX. 2014 Consensual Marks, SDCC, Dallas, TX 2014, When We Just Existed, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY, 2013 Resistance Begins at Home: Rethinking Otherness, Dallas, TX, 2011 Forks and Spoons, South Dallas Culture Center, Dallas, TX 2008 Bearing Witness, Stone Metal Press, San Antonio, TX 2006 Reconstructing, Rethinking, Reacting, O’Kane Gallery, Houston, TX 2006 Chicago Culture Center (South Shore) Chicago, Ill, 2004 Center for African & African American Studies, Austin, TX, 2004 Expositions de groupe (Titre et date à venir) MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, June 2019 Reclamation! Pan-African from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, 2018 Talisman In The Age Of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK, 2018 Soul Recordings, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2018 "Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks" Mass Art, Boston MA, 2018 Fictions, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY 2017 Your Body is Your Battleground, Volta Art Fair, New York, NY 2017 March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY 2017 I know why the caged bird sings, Carver Museum, Austin, TX 2016 Gently Fried, MACC, Austin, TX 2015 The House on Mango Street, National Mexican American Museum, Chicago, Ill. 2015 The Way Out- MFA, Rogue Space, New York, NY 2014 Gender Is A Kind of Doing, MCCLA Galleries, San Francisco CA, 2013 The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York 2011- present Mirame: 21st century portraits for Latino/a America, Sacramento, CA, 2011 Women of Color, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA 2009 Her Stories, Park School, Baltimore. MD.2009 Taking Possession, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2007 Counter Intuitive, Chicago State University, Chicago, Ill. 2007 Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom, University of Milwaukee UGA, Milwaukee, WI, 2006 Boundless, Perceptions from Within, DAC, Austin, TX, 2006 Museum of Science and Industry Juried Exhibition. Chicago, Ill, 2005 Woman Made Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Chicago, Ill, 2005 Subjective Visions, UTSA, San Antonio, TX, 2005 Figure It Out, Art Palace Austin, TX, 2005 Susan Woodson Gallery, Chicago, Ill, 2004 Unmasked: A Collective Statement on Beauty, Butridge Gallery Austin, TX, 2004 Bird Juried Exhibition, Concordia University, Austin, TX, 2003 Our Heritage–Creating New Legacies Juried Exhibition, Butridge Gallery, Austin, TX, 2003 Austin Bergstrom International Airport Juried Exhibition, Austin, TX, 2003 Center for African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX 2002 Bibliographie 2018 Onyewuwnyi, Ikechukwu Casmir, "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Carla, Issue 13, August. Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Art and Cake, June 10. Luke, Ben, "Artist Deborah Roberts on Yinka Shonibare exhibition and why 'black is not a colour any more," Evening Standard, June 6. Mizota, Sharon, "Roberts' powerful statement of black female identity," LA Times, May 29. Miller, Ashia, “Deborah Roberts’ #EvolutionOfMimi art tackles heavy topic of colorism,” RollingOut, May 25. Amirkhani, Jordan, "Art Review: 'The Evolution of Mimi' at Spelman Museum," BURNAWAY, April 25. Cochran, Rebecca, "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Art Papers, March 17. Sargent, Antwaun, “The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood,” VICE, March 6. Feaster, Felicia, “The power and pathos of girlhood defines Deborah Roberts’ collages,” The Atlantic Journal Contribution, March 6. Van Proyen, Mark, “Deborah Roberts @ Jenkins Johnson,” Square Cylinder, February 19. Larocca, Amy, “Portfolio: Her Breakthrough Women,” The New York Magazine, February 5. Green, Tyler, “Deborah Roberts, Anita Witek,” Modern Art Notes Podcast, February. Johns, Myke, “Artist Deborah Roberts ‘Emancipates’ Black Girlhood In Spelman Exhibit,” National Public Radio, January 25. 2017 Twersky, Carolyn, “New Studio Museum Show,” ARTNEWS, August 23. Marino, Rebecca, “Q+A with Deborah Roberts,” Conflict of Interest, July 17. Scott, Andrea K. “March Madness in the Meatpacking District,” The New Yorker, April 10. Anspon, Catherine D. “Austin Gets Its Own Art Fair,” Papercity Magazine, March 30. Kamm, Rebecca. “You Can’t Deny Us: The Artists Showcasing the Power if Female Athletes,” Broadly Vice, March 28. “At Fort Gansevoort, March Madness takes on a new meaning,” A Hotel Life, April 23. Evans, Dayna. “What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Sports?,” The Cut, March 20. 2016 Knudson, Rainey. “Naming and Shaming: Deborah Roberts at Art Palace”, Glasstire, November 21. 2014 Ryzin, Jeanne Claire van. “Contemporary art exhibit probes African-American identity, Statesmen,  September19.        Huete, Betsy. “Deborah Roberts: One and Many,” Glasstire, November 29. Ward, Jeff M. “Deborah Roberts: Reconstructing, Reacting and Rethinking at O’Kane Gallery,” Fluent  Collaborative, issue 79, November 17.