Deborah Roberts

'When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History' aims to broaden and complicate official histories and their corresponding visual strategies to allow for richer representations of those who have been traditionally excluded or erased.

An In Conversation between Deborah Roberts and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis took place at Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York to celebrate the artist's new monograph, 'Twenty Years of Art/Work'.

Deborah Roberts: 'Come walk in my shoes' is the first solo museum exhibition in New Mexico of Roberts’ work. The exhibition presents a selection of figurative collages and paintings combining found images with hand-painted details centred on the experiences of black boyhood in the United States.

'True Believers: Benny Andrews & Deborah Roberts' provides a historic and contemporary view of the Black experience in America through the work of two artists from different generations. This exhibition explores the deep connections between the work of two artists in relation to formal similarities, specifically their use of collage, as well as their shared interest in themes of activism, racial injustice, family, and religion.

Deborah Roberts is joined in conversation by writer and curator Ekow Eshun, to discuss her current solo exhibition, 'I have something to tell you' at Stephen Friedman Gallery until 23 July.

'A look inside' is the first major European solo exhibition from award-winning US-based artist Deborah Roberts. Combining collage with mixed media, her figurative works critique notions of beauty, the body, race and identity in contemporary society through the lens of Black children in the USA.

'Multiplicity' presents collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity.

The first major exhibition of the Dean Collection, 'Giants' showcases a focused selection from the musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys' world-class holdings. The Brooklyn Museum’s presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of our ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative. 

'One History, Two Versions' features art by contemporary Black artists that expands on themes in the traveling exhibition including Black life, Black love, media representation, and activism. 

'A Superlative Palette' brings together the work of twelve contemporary Black women artists from around the world.

Deborah Roberts will be in conversation with Sarah Elizabeth Lewis to mark the publication of her monograph, 'Twenty Years of Art/Work'. 

On Saturday November 4 from 4–6pm, a book signing and In Conversation with Deborah Roberts will take place at Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York. This coincides with her solo exhibition 'What about us?', which inaugurates the new gallery, 3 November – 22 December 2023.

'Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work' provides the definitive look at the artist’s practice over the past two decades. On Saturday November 4 from 4–6pm, a book signing and In Conversation with the artist will take place at Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York. This coincides with her solo exhibition 'What about us?', which inaugurates the new gallery, 3 November – 23 December 2023.

Deborah Roberts is in conversation with Ekow Eshun and Phillip Townsend to mark the opening of her solo exhibition, 'Come walk in my shoes'.

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a group exhibition at Art Basel 2023.

We are pleased to share some of our latest public acquisitions, spanning globally significant collections in Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.

Deborah Roberts is in conversation with Connie Choi as part of the Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner Lecture Series at McNay Art Museum, Texas.

Deborah Roberts joins fellow artist vanessa german on the occassion of german receiving a 2022 Heinz Awards for the Arts. The two will discuss their creative practice and german will share live spoken-word poetry in response to specific artworks.

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a group exhibition focused on painting for West Bund Art & Design 2022. The exhibition explores how each artist interprets the medium – from the precise, observational quality of Ball and Walker’s paintings to Forrester’s energetic brushstrokes, Shonibare’s exuberant hand-painted ‘batik’ patterns and the imaginary narratives created by Andersson and Rothenstein.

'To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood' features an international and intergenerational group of 40 artists whose works in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video illustrate the diverse experiences of childhood. Through six thematic sections, 'To Begin Again' explores how artists have engaged with issues of self-expression, creativity, power, care, labour, and learning through the subject of childhood.

'I Can't Breathe' is a group exhibition that both recognises the suffering of people of colour in a racist society, and provides space for group mourning, healing and hope.

Tiny Traces' presents a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past, through the stories of children from the African and Asian diasporas in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital. Running as a parallel thread throughout the exhibition, works of art from leading contemporary artists, including Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley, form a dialogue with the historic narratives.

The Texas Cultural Trust, a nonprofit organisation that supports access to the arts across the state, has announced the awardees for its 2023 Texas Medal of Arts Awards (TMAA). Deborah Roberts has...

The Katherine E. Nash Gallery presents 'A Picture Gallery of the Soul', a group exhibition of over 100 Black American artists whose practice incorporates photography.  Featuring a range of photographic expressions from traditional photography to mixed media and conceptual art, the exhibition honours, celebrates, investigates, and interprets Black history, culture, and politics in the United States.

Stephen Friedman Gallery brings together artists Mamma Andersson, Leilah Babirye, Sarah Ball, Denzil Forrester, Hulda Guzmán, Deborah Roberts, Anne Rothenstein, Jiro Takamatsu and Caroline Walker for the first ever edition of Frieze Seoul. Each artist represents unique perspectives on figuration and landscape with new paintings and sculptures.

Featuring fifty-one artworks by thirty-six prominent artists, group exhibition ‘51 @ 51’ is rennie museum’s final presentation in the historic Wing Sang building. Breaking the museum’s self-imposed rule of not titling its shows, ‘51 @ 51’ references the number of artworks in the exhibition as well as the address of the museum, 51 East Pender Street.

This exhibition unites almost a century of work by 49 women and non-binary artists in a range of media drawn exclusively from the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.

We are delighted to present a panel discussion on Friday 22 July, 5-6pm (BST) chaired by Katy Hessel (art historian and founder of The Great Women Artists) featuring artists Kenturah Davis, Genevieve Gaignard, Deborah Roberts and Amy Sherald.

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a group exhibition of artists focusing on themes of diasporic cultures, migration and displacement. The exhibition explores the cultural inspirations the artists have found through travel and in connecting with their heritage.

'Women Painting Women' is a thematic exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. International in scope, 'Women Painting Women' recognises female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration. 

We are thrilled to share a selection of recent museum acquisitions. ⁠

Presenting a broad showcase of the most recent acquisitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 'New Arrivals' includes 'Head nods and handshakes', 2019 by Deborah Roberts.

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by African-American artist Deborah Roberts at Frieze London 2021. This coincides with the artist’s first institutional solo show in Europe at The Bluecoat, Liverpool from October 2021. This body of work continues Roberts’ investigation of the challenges encountered by Black children as they respond to social constructs perpetuated by the white gaze and western visual culture.

On the occasion of its twenty-fifth year at Art Basel, Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a group exhibition that highlights key milestones in the gallery’s history and its longstanding relationship with the fair.

Art Basel's 'OVR: Portals' curator Larry Ossei-Mensah joins African-American artist Deborah Roberts for an intimate Clubhouse conversation, focused on text and cultural discourse. 

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present ‘I – We – They’ a show of works by Denzil Forrester, Rivane Neuenschwander and Deborah Roberts for ‘OVR: Portals’, Art Basel’s first curator-led edition of its Online Viewing Rooms. The display comprises paintings, works on paper and textiles that examine the curatorial theme of social divides and ideas of community and identity.

‘The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse’ investigates the visual and musical parallels that have shaped the contemporary landscape in the southern United States, with a focus on early 20th-century Black culture.

‘Rituals of Resilience’ is a group exhibition co-curated by musician Chaka Mkali (I Self Divine) and Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gabriel Ritter. This unique audio-visual experience combines 28 works by Black visual artists from the United States, Africa, and the greater African Diaspora with music created for the exhibition by Mkali and multiple collaborators.

In celebration of Black History Month, Brooklyn Academy of Music presents ‘Let Freedom Ring Vol. 2’, the second edition of a digital billboard-based series exploring the meaning of freedom in 2021. Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, the new installation of the public art project features artwork from Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Jordan Casteel, Kevin Claiborne, Lizania Cruz, Deborah Roberts, Amy Sherald, and Jasmine Wahi.

'I'm' at The Contemporary, Austin is the first institutional solo exhibition in Texas by Austin-based artist Deborah Roberts. To coincide with the exhibition, the artist has also created a new figurative mural on the exterior of the Jones Center building. 

Artist Deborah Roberts joined Evelyn Hankins (Senior Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) for an online discussion on power, identity, and challenging cultural myths and stereotypes. This virtual event is part of 'Talking to Our Time', the Hirshhorn’s online series of free artist talks featuring a diverse group of artists and collectives. The talk is also part of #HirshhornInsideOut, the Museum’s initiative to bring art into your home.

Yinka Shonibare CBE, ‘End of Empire’, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, England Deborah Roberts, ‘When you see me’, Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), Dallas, Texas, USA Deborah Roberts, ‘Untitled’, Manchester...

This illustrated catalogue was published in celebration of the gallery's 25th anniversary in conjunction with the group exhibition '25 Years' at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (25 September – 7 November 2020). 

Pérez Art Museum hosted a panel discussion titled 'Black Diasporic Feminism, Intersectionality, and Solidarity in the Age of Protest' on Wednesday 2 December. The conversation took place in conjunction with the special exhibition 'Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection' and included three artists featured in the exhibition, Genevieve Gaignard, Naudline Pierre and Deborah Roberts.