LJ Roberts
About the artist
LJ Roberts is an artist and writer working in Brooklyn and Pioneertown. Their work addresses queer and trans temporalities and movement, material deviance, chosen kinships, archives, and narrative.
LJ Roberts working in their studio, photo by Jenna Bacom
LJ Roberts served as the Arthur and Sheila Prensky Visiting Artist in the spring of 2023. Island Press collaborated on a complex print project with Roberts that will debut at their spring 2025 solo exhibition at Hales Gallery, NY.
Final images and details about the project are forthcoming soon!
LJ Roberts (b.1980 Royal Oak, Michigan, USA) 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. 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.
Stormé at Stonewall 2019 Light box installation in fourteen (14) parts 60 x 240 in Courtesy LJ Roberts and Hales, London and New York. Photo by LJ Roberts.
Their work is included in the collections of National Portrait Gallery and Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC), Brooklyn Museum (NY), Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC), Oakland Museum of California and Leslie-Lohman Museum (NY). 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.