Mariah Robertson (born 1975) is an American
artist
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. She lives in
New York City
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.
Robertson has exhibited work internationally including at
Saatchi Gallery
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in London and
MoMA PS1
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in Long Island City. In 2015 she co-founded Situations Gallery
on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan
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where she hosted Temporal Situations, a month-long program of live and time-based events from 2016 to 2017. Her work appears on the cover of the 2016 Elton John album "Wonderful Crazy Night." She is represented by M+B Gallery in
Los Angeles
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, and Van Doren Waxter in New York City. Robertson's work is included in the 2023-2024 exhibition The Sky's the Limit at the
National Museum of Women in the Arts
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in
Washington, D.C
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.
Robertson was born in
Indianapolis, Indiana
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and spent her childhood in
Sacramento, California
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.
She was curator at Lair of the Minotaur gallery in San Francisco in the 2000s.
Education
Robertson received her BA in Religious Studies from UC Berkeley, and her MFA from Yale University.
Exhibitions and performances
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'', Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2010:
* 'Performance'',
Art Basel
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Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Curated by
Klaus Biesenbach
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.
* ''Solo Presentation'', , Berlin
* ''50 Artists Photograph the Future'', Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2011:
*
MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 2201 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...
, Long Island City, NY. Performance.
*
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
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, Gateshead, UK. Solo exhibition.
* Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT. Performance.
* ''HOT TROPICAL RAIN JAM'' Museum 52, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition
2012:
* ''Let's Change'',
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Solo exhibition.
* Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard,
National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to:
* National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra
* National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred
*National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C.
*National Portrait Gallery, London
...
,
Smithsonian Institution
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, Washington DC. Performance.
* ''The First Annual Artists’ Halloween Carnival and Parade,''
Museum of Modern Art
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, New York City Performance.
*
New Art Dealers Alliance
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(NADA), New York City
2013:
* ''Permanent Puberty'', American Contemporary, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.
2014:
* ''A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio'', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Group Exhibition
* ''What is a Photograph?'',
International Center of Photography
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, New York, NY. Group Exhibition
* ''Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography'',
The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. Group Exhibition
* ''Paris Photo'', Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2015:
* ''Photography Lovers’ Peninsula'', M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition
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
* ''Fun Packed Holiday'', Lora Reynolds, Austin, TX
2019:
* ''Mariah Robertson'',
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN. Solo Exhibition.
2020:
* ''Summer Selection 2020'', Galerie Miranda, Paris, FR. Group Exhibition.
*''Repetition and Difference'', Van Doren Waxter, New York City. Solo Exhibition.
2021:
* ''Repetition & Difference'', M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition.
Residency
* 2011:
Central Utah Art Center
* 2016,
MacDowell Colony
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Collections
Robertson's work is held in the following permanent public collections:
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
* Museum of Modern Art, New York City
* North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC: 1 item (as of June 2018)
* Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
References
Sources
External links
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Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions , ART21 “New York Close Up”Mariah Robertson Wears a Yellow Suit to Work , "New York Close Up" , Art21West, Tanner, "On View: Mariah Robertson’s Prismatic Photograms Showcase Her Startling Darkroom Ingenuity—See Them Here", Artnet, January 19th, 2018“The Look Out”, Art in America, May 18, 2017Russeth, Andrew.“Mariah Robertson: Permanent Puberty at American Contemporary”The New York Observer.November 2013.Small, Rachel. “Mariah Robertson's Unplanning.”Interview. October 2013.Mariah Robertson reading Nomadology : The War Machine by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Printed MattersMariah Robertson’s Bold Photographic Installations Go on Display, Architectural Digest
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1975 births
Living people
American women photographers
21st-century American women