Deborah Roberts news

'The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure' showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, and highlights the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life.

'Taking a stand', 2024, a new print by Deborah Roberts, is now available. ⁠

Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture explores the powerful connection between sports and society through a diverse range of artistic perspectives.

Deborah Roberts features in the group exhibition Irrationally Speaking highlighting two art forms—collage and assemblage—as artistic techniques and conceptual approaches.

Spread across six major rooms devoted to the display of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart collection, the presentation THIS IS TOMORROW will feature contemporary pieces side by side with prominent examples of twentieth century art.

Deborah Roberts in conversation with The Phillips Collection Senior Consulting Curator Dr. Adrienne Childs will be held on July 18, 6:30-8:30 pm.

Deborah Roberts features in Multiplicity, the first major museum exhibition dedicated to contemporary collage reflecting the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States.

Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work has been longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation 2024 Photography and Moving Image Book Awards.

'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.

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

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.

'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.