LJ Roberts

Session four - July 10 – 15

LJ Roberts is an artist and writer working in Brooklyn, New York and Pioneertown, California. Their work addresses queer and trans temporalities and movement, material deviance, chosen kinships, archives, and narrative. Recently the artist has been featured in exhibitions at Pioneer Works, Hales New York, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Brooklyn Museum, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, and The Renwick Gallery at Smithsonian American Art Museum where their work is in the permanent collection. The artist has been the past recipient of a Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, and residencies at IASPIS, MacDowell, Ox-Bow School of Art, ACRE, Pioneer Works, Bag Factory, and Textile Arts Center. LJ was awarded the 2015 White House Champions of Change Award for LGBTQI artists and the 2019 Women’s Caucus for Art President’s Award for Art and Activism. In 2022 they were a Colene Brown Art Prize Awardee. LJ Roberts is represented by Hales, London and New York and teaches at Parsons School of Design.

LJ  Roberts, Maggie Toth & Joaquín Ristorucci, 2020, embroidery on cotton, cloth size 7 ⅜ × 6 ⅝ in.