Biography
Deborah Roberts is a mixed media artist whose work challenges the notion of ideal beauty. In an ongoing series of collage on paper works, Roberts makes abstracted representations of adolescent black youths that explore race and identity issues and consider notions of beauty and body image. Challenging the ideal of the white Venus, Roberts makes room for women of color who are not included in this definition and creates a dialogue among the notions of inclusion, dignity, consumption and subjectivity. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Block Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Montclair Art Museum and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. Roberts was the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2016 and the Ginsburg-Klaus Award Fellowship in 2014. A catalogue of her solo exhibition, The Evolution of Mimi, at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art was published in July 2019.
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