Mariah Robertson
She is known for her large-scale photograms, camera-less works, and chemically manipulated photographs that embrace unpredictability and chance. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She lives in New York City.
Mariah Robertson
- Born
- 1975
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
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She is known for her large-scale photograms, camera-less works, and chemically manipulated photographs that embrace unpredictability and chance. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She lives in New York City.
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Mariah Robertson (born 1975) is a photographer, of American nationality. Works are held at Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Education
Education
Robertson has exhibited work internationally including at Saatchi Gallery in London and MoMA PS1 in Long Island City. In 2015 she co-founded Situations Gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan 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, 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 in Washington, D.C. Robertson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and spent her childhood in Sacramento, California. She was curator at Lair of the Minotaur gallery in San Francisco in the 2000s.
Robertson received her B.A. in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.F.A. in 2005 from Yale University School of Art.
Exhibitions and performances
Exhibitions and performances
• Illustration — 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, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY 2010: • Performance, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach. • Solo Presentation, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin • 50 Artists Photograph the Future, Higher Pictures, New York, NY 2011: • MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. Performance. • Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 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, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Performance. • The First Annual Artists’ Halloween Carnival and Parade, Museum of Modern Art, New York City Performance. • New Art Dealers Alliance (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, 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
Residency
• 2011: Central Utah Art Center • 2016, MacDowell Colony
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1975
Mariah Robertson was born on 1 January 1975.
Collections
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
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6761759: Mariah Robertson
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- “Mariah Robertson”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Art:21. Mariah Robertson ART21 New York Close Up.
- 2.Gallery, Saatchi. Out of Focus: Photography. www.saatchigallery.com.
- 3.Museum of Modern Art. Greater New York - MoMA.
- 4.Jerry the Marble Faun. situations.us.
- 5.'TEMPORAL SITUATIONS' At 127 Henry Street, New York, NY 10002. ART HAPS.
- 6.Looking Back on 2017: Art by - BOMB Magazine. bombmagazine.org.
- 7.Bruno Ceschel's Best of 2017. December 30, 2017.
- 8.Ryzik, Melena. Elton John, Still Rocking Out (and Speaking Out) With a Flourish. The New York Times. Music. January 27, 2016.
- 9.Russeth, Andrew. Mariah Robertson Joins Van Doren Waxter. ARTnews. September 7, 2017.
- 10.The art of failure. 2001-04-16.
- 11.Yale School of Art. Traveling Fellowships. School of Art. 97, 101. May 10, 2006.
- 12.Rudick, Nicole. Mariah Robertson. ARTFORUM.
- 13.Rosenberg, Karen. Art in Review. The New York Times. Art & Design. October 22, 2009.
- 14.Maine, Stephen. Mariah Robertson. Art in America. January 15, 2010.
- 15.McGarry, Kevin. Art Basel Miami Beach - The Art of Parties, Day Three. December 3, 2010.
- 16.Cotter, Holland. '50 Artists Photograph the Future'. The New York Times. May 27, 2010.
- 17.Baltic Plus - Mariah Robertson. balticplus.uk.
- 18.VIDEO: A Mid-Opening Performance by Mariah Robertson & An Installation View. December 9, 2011.
- 19.Riley, Chris. Ryan Trecartin, Willem de Kooning, New York Solo Photo Shows. ARTFORUM.
- 20.Brochure. www.grandarts.com.
- 21.The First Annual Artists' Halloween Carnival and Parade - MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 22.Rosenberg, Karen. Another Fair Makes a Debut, and Aims to Lure the Collectors Already in Town. The New York Times. Art Review. May 4, 2012.
- 23.Smith, Roberta. When a Form Is Given Its Room to Play. The New York Times. Art Review. February 6, 2014.
- 24.Jonnson, Ken. Digital, Analog and Waterlogged. The New York Times. Art Review. January 30, 2014.
- 25.Levere, Jane L. In Huntington, an Exhibition of Pioneering Photography Through the Ages. The New York Times. Arts. May 2015.
- 26.JUXTAPOZ. Mariah Robertson's "PHOTOGRAPHY LOVERS' PENINSULA" @ M+B, Los Angeles.
- 27.Ollman, Leah. Critic's Choice: Mariah Robertson's vigorous tussle with photography. Los Angeles Times. Entertainment & Arts. March 12, 2015.
- 28.Mariah Robertson's Prismatic Photograms Showcase Her Startling Darkroom Ingenuity—See Them Here artnet News. artnet News. 2018-01-19.
- 29.Galerie Miranda exhibits works selected along the themes of nature, calm and the beauty of simple things artdaily.com. artdaily.com. 2020-07-02.
- 30.Goings On About Town, Mariah Robertson The New Yorker. The New Yorker. 2020-10-19.
- 31.Central Utah Art Center. Conscious Utah Awesomeness Children: Mariah Robertson. November 30, 2011.
- 32.MacDowell. Mariah Robertson - Artist.
- 33.Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Untitled (3).
- 34.Mariah Robertson. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 35.Search View. ncartmuseum.org.
- 36.Mariah Robertson | 243. Whitney of American Art.
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