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    MARIAH ROBERTSON (b. 1975) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She was educated at Yale University (MFA) and UC Berkeley (BA). Her solo exhibitions include M+B, Los Angeles, CA (2021, 2018, 2015), 11R, New York (2017,2016); and American Contemporary, NY (2013). Robertson has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA PS1, NY; International Center of Photography NY; and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit. Her work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; among others.
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  • Works
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mariah Robertson, 154, 2019

    Mariah Robertson

    154, 2019
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    50 x 28 in
    127 x 71.1 cm
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  • Exhibitions
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      Mariah Robertson: Everything counts & local reality

      2nd Floor September 13 - October 28, 2023
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present a striking, dazzling, site-specific exhibition of recent experimental work by Mariah Robertson. “A demon in the darkroom,” Andrea Scott in The New Yorker...
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    • Mariah Robertson

      Mariah Robertson

      Book of Details 2022, 3rd Floor June 16 - August 19, 2022
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present a selection of works by Mariah Robertson, coinciding with the release of her Book of Details 2022 . The presentation will be comprised...
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    • Mariah Robertson

      Mariah Robertson

      Repetition and Difference: 2nd Floor October 3 - December 19, 2020
      CLICK HERE TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Mariah Robertson, on view from October 1 - December 19, 2020....
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    • Chroma

      Chroma

      2nd Floor July 17 - August 16, 2019
      For its summer group exhibition, Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Chroma, a show that brings together color-specific works by artists from the gallery’s roster and program. On view...
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    • Mariah Robertson

      Mariah Robertson

      May 5 - June 16, 2017
      11R is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by American artist Mariah Robertson, on view May 5 – June 9, 2017 in 11R’s East Gallery. Robertson will present...
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    • Jennie Jieun Lee | Mariah Robertson

      Jennie Jieun Lee | Mariah Robertson

      January 10 - February 7, 2016
      JENNIE JIEUN LEE | MARIAH ROBERTSON January 10 – February 7, 2016 | East Gallery | 195 Chrystie Street, NY, NY 10002 11R is pleased to present a two-person exhibition...
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    • Judith Eisler, Bryn McConnell, Mariah Robertson

      Judith Eisler, Bryn McConnell, Mariah Robertson

      July 1 - August 27, 2010
      Reception July 1, 5 - 7 p.m. Curated by Augusto Arbizo Greenberg Van Doren Gallery is pleased to present a three-person presentation of new work by Judith Eisler, Bryn McConnell,...
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      Sandisfield Arts Center | Illuminated: Women in Photography

      Mariah Robertson | October 13 – November 10, 2024 October 13, 2024
      The gender component of emotional memory is linked to the amygdala (an almond-shaped emotion locus in both hemispheres of the brain.) For women, the left...
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  • Publications
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      Mariah Roberston

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      Mariah Robertson

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    • Mariah Robertson

      Mariah Robertson

      Book of Details 2022 2022
      Book, Softcover, 34 pages
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  • Art fairs
    • installation view

      Art Basel Miami Beach

      Booth G4 December 6 - 8, 2024
      Van Doren Waxter will present a select group of works that embody expressionism and restraint. The variety of formalist impulses behind this concept will be...
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    • installation view

      Art Basel Miami Beach

      December 8 - 10, 2023
      Meridians : Alan Shields Kabinett : Alan Shields: Works on Paper
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      Art Basel Miami Beach

      December 1 - 3, 2022
      Main Booth Marsha Cottrell Karin Davie Moira Dryer Judy Fiskin Helen Frankenthaler Carmen Herrera Vera Molnar Mariah Robertson Dorothea Rockburne Jackie Saccoccio Hedda Sterne Anne...
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    • The Armory Show

      The Armory Show

      September 9 - 11, 2022
      Works By: Caetano de Almeida Marsha Cottrell Jeronimo Elespe Jessie Henson David Hockney Volker Hüller Joshua Nathanson Evan Nesbit Gareth Nyandoro Mariah Robertson Brian Rochefort...
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    • The Armory Show

      The Armory Show

      September 10 - 12, 2021
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    • art fair booth

      The Armory Show

      March 5 - 8, 2020
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  • Press
    • ‘There Are No Optics Involved’: Mariah Robertson Explains What It Means to Make Vivid Abstract Photos—Without a Camera

      By Caroline Goldstein, artnet news, September 15, 2023
    • Mariah Robertson’s Fantastical Abstractions Flip Photography on Its Head

      Grace Edquist, Vogue , September 13, 2023
    • ‘They’re a Fleeting Mystery’: Watch Artist Mariah Robertson Harness Unexpected Chemical Reactions to Make Otherworldly Photos

      by Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News, December 3, 2020
    • Goings On About Town

      By Johanna Fateman, Mariah Robertson, October 19, 2020
    • Mariah Robertson’s Prismatic Photograms Showcase Her Startling Darkroom Ingenuity—See Them Here

      by Tanner West, Artnet News, January 19, 2018
    • MARIAH ROBERTSON

      by Eloise Macwell, Art in America, May 1, 2017
    • Artists revive old methods and invent new ones to bring wonder back into photography

      Mariah Robertson
      by Robert Everett-Green, The Globe and Mail , April 30, 2015
    • Rappers in the Museum

      Mariah Robertson
      by Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly, April 1, 2015
    • Til April 8th: M+B – MARIAH ROBERTSON – Photography Lover's Peninsula ‘What is Photography?’ Opens at the I.C.P

      by Redia Soltis, 01 Magazine, March 24, 2015
    • MARIAH ROBERTSON’S VIGOROUS TUSSLE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY

      by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2015
    • Mariah Robertson's Bold Photographic Installations Go on Display

      by Michael Slenske, Architectural Digest, February 18, 2015
    • 5 Artists to Watch at Paris Photo LA's Solo Booths

      Blouin Artinfo, April 25, 2014
    • What Is a Photograph?

      by Gabriel H. Sanchez, Artforum, March 1, 2014
    • Digital, Analog and Waterlogged

      by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, January 30, 2014
    • Mariah Robertson, Permanent Puberty @ American Contemporary

      by Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily, November 8, 2013
    • Mariah Robertson's Unplanning

      by Rachel Small, Interview, October 31, 2013
    • Nothing Square About These Pics

      by Alice Thorson, The Kansas City Star, February 24, 2012
    • Maria Robertson "Let's Change"

      Huffington Post Arts, February 23, 2012
    • Charming a Cobra

      Exit Magazine: Edition 47, 2012, February 1, 2012
    • New York Close Up

      ART21, January 13, 2012
    • Mariah Robertson, Gateshead

      The Guardian, July 16, 2011
    • The Baltic Centre Presents Mariah Robertson's First UK Solo Exhibition

      by John Charlton, Art Knowledge News, June 27, 2011
    • New York Close Up

      ART2111, June 27, 2011
    • Judith Eisler, Bryn McConnell, Mariah Robertson: In this three-person show, painting rubs up against photography and vice versa

      Time Out New York, August 19, 2010
    • Mariah Robertson

      by Stephen Maine, Art in America, January 1, 2010
    • Mariah Robertson

      Greater New York MoMa PS1, January 1, 2010
    • Mariah Robertson ‘I Am Passions’

      by Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times, October 23, 2009
    • See Mariah Roberton’s Glamorous Photograms

      by Emma Pearse, New York Magazine, October 16, 2009

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