Liisa Roberts

Liisa Roberts (born 1969) is a Finnish-American artist.[1][2] She was born in Paris, France, to a Finnish mother and an American father of Russian-Jewish descent.[3][4]

Work

Roberts is known for her installation works that use film.[5][6][7] The visual style of her work has been called "a critique of minimalist phenomenology".[7] (See minimalist and phenomenology.)

Roberts was included in the 2015 Venice Biennale.[8] Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art[2] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[9]

References
  1. "The Storyteller". Art Gallery of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. "Liisa Roberts". www.whitney.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  3. "MoMA adds Liisa Roberts's Petersburg Underground to its permanent collection". Frame Contemporary Art Finland. 4 October 2017. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. Kivirinta, Marja-Terttu (7 July 2003). "Viipurin kirjasto on risteys ja muutospiste". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  5. Erika Suderburg (2000). Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 261–. ISBN 978-0-8166-3159-9.
  6. Smith, Roberta (14 August 1998). "ART REVIEW; Images Shimmer Upon Screens, Installed in the Imagination". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
  7. Williams, Gregory. "Liisa Roberts". Frieze (43). Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  8. "Artists Announced for 2015 Venice Biennale". www.artforum.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  9. "Liisa Roberts - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
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