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L.J. Roberts holds a MFA in Fine Arts and MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. Their completed a BA in Studio Art and a BA in English from the University of Vermont. Their studio practice primarily consists of largescale site-specific knitted installations created with children’s toy knitting cranks. Their installations occasionally include guerilla actions. Their work has been shown most recently at The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Southern Exposure, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art, The Bellevue Arts Museum, Grizzly Grizzly, The Leslie/Lohman Gallery for Gay Art, A.I.R. Gallery, and Page Bond Gallery.

L.J. also maintains a critical writing practice that bridges craft and queer theory.

Their writing can be found in the anthology Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture in Contemporary Art published by Duke University Press. They were the past co-chair of the Queer Caucus for Art, an affiliate of the College Art Association. They recently organized, along with collaborators Ted Kerr and Quito Ziegler, a three part discussion and screening series entitled Not Over: You, Me, Us and AIDS with the support of Visual AIDS. L.J. was the past recipient of the Ian Crawford Memorial Award, The Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize, the Toni Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship, a Murphy Cadogan Fellowship, the Dennis Leon Award, a Craft Research Fund Graduate Grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, and a 2008 Searchlight Artist Award from the American Craft Council, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and they were a 2009 Smack Mellon Hot Pick Artist. L.J. was a 2009 Artist-in-Residence at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. Most recently L.J. was the 2010-2011 Fountainhead Fellow/Emerging Artist-in-Residence in the Craft/Materials Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Their work will appear next in Craft Futures: 40 Under 40 at the Renwick Gallery of The Smithsonian American Art Museum. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, they currently live and work in Brooklyn, NY.