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

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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

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  1. ^ "The Storyteller". Art Gallery of Ontario. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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. 5 March 2015. 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.