L.J. Roberts 904 Union St. Apt 4D Brooklyn, NY 11215 www.ljroberts.net info@laceyjaneroberts.com Born in 1980 in Detroit, Michigan. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Education 2007 M.A., Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. (Thesis: In the Making: Rhetoric of Craft and Re-Imagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory) 2007 M.F.A., Textiles, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. 2003 B.A., English (with Honors), University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 2003 B.A., Studio Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Awards, Honors, Fellowships, Residencies, and Grants
2012 The Bag Factory Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa 2010-2011 Fountainhead Fellowship/Emerging Artist Residency in Craft and Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellowship 2009 Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY. 2009 Smack Mellon Hot Pick Artist, New York, NY. 2008 Searchlight Artist Award, American Craft Council 2007 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Finalist 2007 Dennis Leon Faculty Award, California College of the Arts 2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Nominee, International Sculpture Center 2007 California College of the Arts Graduate Commencement Speaker (selected by peers) 2007 Craft Research Fund Graduate Grant Award, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design 2006 Shaping the Future of Craft National Leadership Conference Scholarship 2005 Murphy Cadogan Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation 2005 Teaching Assistantship Award, California College of the Arts 2004-5 Toni Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts 2003 Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets 2002 Ian Crawford Memorial Award For Fine Art, University of Vermont Solo Exhibitions 2011
The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in the Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck and Midwout in the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era. Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Fountainhead Fellows Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA. 2010 Building It Up To Tear It Down, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. (Catalogue Available.) 2008 The Master’s Tools (Decay Goes Both Ways), Little Tree Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Group Exhibitions 2012 Craft Futures: 40 Under 40, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Museum of Art (forthcoming). Illegitmate and Herstorical, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011 The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. New York, New York. New York Fiber in the 21st Century, Lehman College Art Gallery, The Bronx, NY. The Mysterious Content of Softness, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington Dropping Stitches: Knitting Trends in Contemporary Art, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington,
Kentucky. 2010 The Artist Is Absent, 25 CPW Gallery, New York, NY. Space Odyssey, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2009 Stitched, Looped and Knitted: Contemporary Needle Art, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA. Threads, National Queer Arts Festival, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA. 2008 Capital Jewelers, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art (Formerly Dust Gallery), Las Vegas NV. Mystery Ball, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Southern Exposure Soft Sculpture Security Curtain (Commission for Southern Exposure Gallery on permanent view.) Making Room for Wonder, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA. Optic Illusion: Southern Exposure’s Annual Fundraiser and Auction, San Francisco, CA. Searchlight Artist Award Exhibition at the American Craft Council Show, Baltimore, MD. 2007 C-Change, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco California. Allison Smith’s Notion Nanny Fair, MATRIX, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Legacy, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA. 2006 Made In: CCA Textiles Department, North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA. Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. Unexpected Developments, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005 Context, North/South Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA. CCA/SFAI Joint Graduate Exhibition, Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA, (Juried) Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (Jurors: Rene De Guzman, Carole Laedwig, Steven Jenkins) WAR! SOMArts, National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA. Fresh Meat In the Gallery, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA. Public/Private, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA. GenderQueers/QueerGenders, University Of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. Textile is a State of Mind, North/ South Gallery, Oakland, CA. 2004
Studio Fuji, Group Show, Studio Fuji, Florence, Italy. 2003 Senior Show (solo exhibition), Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 2002 Ian Crawford Memorial Award Show (solo exhibition), Francis Colburn Gallery, Burlington, VT. Teaching Experience 2010-2011 --Assistant Professor/Fountainhead Fellowship, Graduate Seminar: Critical Contemporary Approaches to Craft ,Virginia Commonwealth University. --Assistant Professor/Fountainhead Fellowship, Introduction to Textiles, Virginia Commonwealth University. --Graduate Thesis and Independent Study Advisor, Virginia Commonwealth University. 2008 Graduate Studio Practice Instructor, MFA Program, California College of the Arts 2007 Visiting Faculty, Knit One, Textiles Department, California College of the Arts
Teaching Assistant --Fiber Sculpture, California College of the Arts Introduction to Textiles, California College of the Arts --Teaching Assistant, Advanced Sculpture, University of Vermont
Other Selected Work Experience --Organizer, Not Over: You, Me, Us and AIDS in collaboration with Visual AIDS. New York, NY. --Artist-in-Residence/Art Teacher (Ages 13-18), Leake and Watts Services, The Bronx, NY. --Research Assistant to Lydia Matthews, Dean of Academic Programs, Parsons: The New School for Design, New York, NY. Visiting Artist Lectures, Conferences and Workshops 2010 Visiting Artist, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. Panelist, Emerging Artists Panel, Surface Design Association Conference. Visiting Artist Lecture, Parsons: The New School for Design, New York, NY Co-chair, Push and/or Pull: Trans and Gender-Variant Artists Discuss the Roll of Feminism in Their Work, College Art Association Conference, Chicago Il.
2009 Visiting Artist, Fiber and Materials Studies Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Closing Panel, American Craft Council Conference, Minneapolis, MN. Queering Craft, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA. 2008 In the Loop Conference, Winchester College of Art, Winchester, England. 2007 NeoCraft Conference, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Nova Scotia, Canada Visiting Artist, University of Oregon, Eugene OR. Visual Criticism Symposium, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA. Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA. Textiles Senior Projects, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA. Interdisciplinary Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. 2006 Introduction to Textiles, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA. Fiber Sculpture, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California.
2005 Introduction to Textiles, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA. Fiber Sculpture, College of Marin, Marin, CA. 2004 Introduction to Textiles, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA. Introduction to Textile Science, University of California at Davis.
Bibliography –Valdez, Aldrin. At the Dinner Table… Art 21 Blog. February 8th, 2012. --Wadkins, Kate. Queer Art Grows In Brooklyn. (Review of Illegitimate and Herstorical.) Hyperallergic. January, 8th, 2012. –Schiller, Rebecca. Queer Knits: Lacey Jane Roberts. Hand/Eye Magazine. October, 2011 –Blair, Antonia. Review of Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art. Ed Maria Elena Buszek. Bust Magazine. Summer 2011. --Knott, Stephen. Review of Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art. Ed Maria Elena Buszek. Crafts: The Magazine for Contemporary Craft (United Kingdom) July/August 2011 --Miller, Brian. “The Fussy Eye: Sharp and Soft.” (Review of The Mysterious Content of Softness). Seattle Weekly. April 13, 2011. --Auther, Elissa. “Sloppy Craft.: FiberArts Magazine. Nov-Dec. 2010
--Lam, Mung Lar. “Lacey Jane Roberts: Dismantling the Master’s House.” FiberArts Magazine. Nov-Dec. 2010 --Smith, Rochelle. “Anti-Slick to Post-Slick: DIY Books and Youth Culture Then and Now.” The Journal of American Culture. Vol. 33, Issue 3. September 2010. pg. 207-216 –Thompson, Margo Hobbs “DIY Identity Kit: The Great American Lesbian Art Show,” Journal of Lesbian Studies, Vol. 14, Issue 2&3, April 2010 p.260-282 --McDade, Marci Rae. “Reinvention in San Francisco.” FiberArts. Summer 2010. --Auther, Elissa, String, Felt and Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2010. --Tully, Jessica, “Building It Up To Tear It Down.” Catalogue Essay, Southern Exposure Gallery. –Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Queerly Made: Harmony Hammond’s Floorpieces.” The Journal of Modern Craft. Volume 2--Issue 1. pp.59-80, Berg Publishers, 2009. –Hemmings, Jessica. Forthcoming article in Surface Design Journal. --Adamson, Glenn. “Pink Yarn and Other Signs of the Times.” Motion Blur: American Craft. Gustavsberg Konsthall Sweden, 2009. -- “Interview with Lacey Jane Roberts” http://www.sprayblog.net/spraygraphic-interview-with-artist-lacey-janeroberts/ –Gschwandtner, “Artist Spotlight: Lacey Jane Roberts: Dismantling Systems of Power.” Interweave Knits. Winter, 2008. --Kelly, Danielle. “Capital Ideas.” Las Vegas Weekly. Nov. 5, 2008. Online: http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/oct/30/capital-ideas --Roos, Zephyr Yokoyama. “Lacey Jane Roberts.” Plastic Antimony. Issue 2, Spring 2008. --Kurtz, Katie. “Fenced in, Kept Out.” Craft Magazine. Spring, 2008. --Matthews, Lydia. “Opening Essay.” Shaping the Future of Craft. Ed. Hampton, Monica and Lily Kane. New York:American Craft Council, 2007. --Huston, Johnny Ray. “Flaming Creators.” San Francisco Bay Guardian. 20-26 Jun 2007. Also available online at www.sfbg.com/blogs/pixel_vision/2007/06/flaming_creators.htm --Solomon, Lisa. “Give Me A C: Putting the Craft Back in Art.” Kitchen Sink Magazine. V. 14. 2007.
--Trippe, John. “CCA 07’ Graduate Exhibition.” www.fecalface.com. 15 May 2007. --Callaway, Bob. “CCA MFA Exhibit.” http:artfever.blogspot.com. 13 May 2007. --Gschwandtner, Sabrina ed. KnitKnit 6. New York, New York. December 2005. --KQED Public Television, Gallery Talk: Cadogan/Murphy Fellowship Awards, SPARK, October, 2005. --Bing, Alison, Rev. of “Cadogan and Murphy Fellowships.” SFGATE.com. September, 2005. Writing Roberts, Lacey Jane. “Put Your Thing Down Flip It and Reverse It: Re-imaging Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory.”Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art. Ed. Maria Elena Buszek, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2011. Roberts, Lacey Jane. “Craft, Queerness, and Guerilla Tactics.” In The Loop: Knitting Now. Ed. Jessica Hemmings. United Kingdom: Black Dog Publishing, 2010. “Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, and Reverse It: Re-imagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory.” Sightlines. San Francisco: California, 2006. Community Service --Co-chair, Queer Caucus for Art, College Art Association --After-school program volunteer at The Harvey Milk School, New York, NY. --Graduate Student Committee on Diversity, California College of the Arts --Founding member, Translating Identity Conference, a free symposium on gender and sexuality at the University of Vermont. --Visibility Coordinator, GLBT Student Alliance, University of Vermont. Professional Affiliations College Art Association Queer Caucus for Art