Mariah Robertson

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Mariah Robertson (born 1975) is an American artist.[1] She lives in New York City.[2]

Robertson has exhibited work internationally including at Saatchi Gallery in London[3] and MoMA PS1 in Long Island City.[4] In 2015 she was a co-founded Situations Gallery[5] in the Lower East Side in New York City.[6] where she hosted Temporal Situations,[7] a month-long program of live and time-based events from 2016 to 2017.[8] Her work appears on the cover of the 2016 Elton John album "Wonderful Crazy Night."[9] She is represented by M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, and Van Doren Waxter in New York City.[10] Robertson's work is included in the 2023-2024 exhibition, The Sky’s the Limit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Robertson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and spent her childhood in Sacramento, California.[2] She served as curator at Lair of the Minotaur gallery in San Francisco in the 2000s.[11]

Education[edit]

Robertson received her BA in Religious Studies from UC Berkeley, and her MFA from Yale University.[12]

Exhibitions and performances[edit]

9 (2011), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

2006:

  • Please lie down and take a nap with me in my grave, Guild & Greyshkul, New York City

2007:

  • Nudes, Still Lives and Landscapes, Guild & Greyshkul, New York City

2009:

  • Take Better Pictures, Museum 52, New York, NY
  • Guild & Greyshkul, New York City Performance.
  • I Am Passions,[13] Marvelli Gallery,[14] New York, NY[15]

2010:

2011:

2012:

2013:

  • Permanent Puberty, American Contemporary, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.

2014:

2015:

  • Photography Lovers’ Peninsula,[27] M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition [28]

2016:

  • Two-person exhibition with Jennie Jieun Lee, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.

2017:

  • Chaos Power Center, 11R, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.

2018:

  • The Hydra, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition[29]
  • Fun Packed Holiday, Lora Reynolds, Austin, TX

2019:

2020:

  • Summer Selection 2020, Galerie Miranda, Paris, FR. Group Exhibition.[30]
  • Repetition and Difference, Van Doren Waxter, New York City. Solo Exhibition.[31]

2021:

  • Repetition & Difference, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition.

Residency[edit]

Collections[edit]

Robertson's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA[34]
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York City[35]
  • North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC: 1 item (as of June 2018)[36]
  • Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY [37]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Mariah Robertson's Fantastical Abstractions Flip Photography on Its Head". Vogue. September 13, 2023. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Mariah Robertson | ART21 New York Close Up". Art:21. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  3. ^ Gallery, Saatchi. "Out of Focus: Photography". www.saatchigallery.com. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  4. ^ "Greater New York - MoMA". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  5. ^ "Jerry the Marble Faun". situations.us. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  6. ^ "Bruno Ceschel's Best of 2017". December 30, 2017.
  7. ^ "'TEMPORAL SITUATIONS' At 127 Henry Street, New York, NY 10002". ART HAPS. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  8. ^ "Looking Back on 2017: Art by - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  9. ^ Ryzik, Melena (January 27, 2016). "Elton John, Still Rocking Out (and Speaking Out) With a Flourish". The New York Times. No. Music.
  10. ^ Russeth, Andrew (September 7, 2017). "Mariah Robertson Joins Van Doren Waxter". ARTnews.
  11. ^ "The art of failure". April 16, 2001. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  12. ^ "Traveling Fellowships" (PDF). School of Art. Yale School of Art. May 10, 2006. pp. 97, 101.
  13. ^ Rudick, Nicole. "Mariah Robertson". ARTFORUM. ARTFORUM.
  14. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (October 22, 2009). "Art in Review". The New York Times. No. Art & Design.
  15. ^ Maine, Stephen (January 15, 2010). "Mariah Robertson". Art in America.
  16. ^ McGarry, Kevin (December 3, 2010). "Art Basel Miami Beach - The Art of Parties, Day Three".
  17. ^ Cotter, Holland (May 27, 2010). "'50 Artists Photograph the Future'". The New York Times.
  18. ^ "Baltic Plus - Mariah Robertson". balticplus.uk.
  19. ^ "VIDEO: A Mid-Opening Performance by Mariah Robertson & An Installation View". December 9, 2011.
  20. ^ Riley, Chris. "Ryan Trecartin, Willem de Kooning, New York Solo Photo Shows". ARTFORUM.
  21. ^ "Brochure" (PDF). www.grandarts.com.
  22. ^ "The First Annual Artists' Halloween Carnival and Parade - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  23. ^ Rosenberg, Karen (May 4, 2012). "Another Fair Makes a Debut, and Aims to Lure the Collectors Already in Town". The New York Times. No. Art Review.
  24. ^ Smith, Roberta (February 6, 2014). "When a Form Is Given Its Room to Play". The New York Times. No. Art Review.
  25. ^ Jonnson, Ken (January 30, 2014). "Digital, Analog and Waterlogged". The New York Times. No. Art Review.
  26. ^ Levere, Jane L. (May 2015). "In Huntington, an Exhibition of Pioneering Photography Through the Ages". The New York Times. Arts.
  27. ^ "Mariah Robertson's "PHOTOGRAPHY LOVERS' PENINSULA" @ M+B, Los Angeles". JUXTAPOZ.
  28. ^ Ollman, Leah (March 12, 2015). "Critic's Choice: Mariah Robertson's vigorous tussle with photography". Los Angeles Times. No. Entertainment & Arts.
  29. ^ "Mariah Robertson's Prismatic Photograms Showcase Her Startling Darkroom Ingenuity—See Them Here | artnet News". artnet News. January 19, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  30. ^ "Galerie Miranda exhibits works selected along the themes of nature, calm and the beauty of simple things | artdaily.com". artdaily.com. July 2, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  31. ^ "Goings On About Town, Mariah Robertson | The New Yorker". The New Yorker. October 19, 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  32. ^ "Conscious Utah Awesomeness Children: Mariah Robertson". Central Utah Art Center. November 30, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  33. ^ "Mariah Robertson - Artist". MacDowell.
  34. ^ "Untitled (3)". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  35. ^ "Mariah Robertson". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  36. ^ "Search View". ncartmuseum.org. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  37. ^ "Mariah Robertson | 243". Whitney of American Art.

Sources[edit]

"Bio, Mariah Robertson". American Contemporary, website. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.

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