Mariah Robertson
Mariah Robertson (born 1975) is an American photographer. She lives in New York City.[1]
Robertson has exhibited work internationally including at Saatchi Gallery in London[2] and MoMA PS1 in Long Island City.[3] In 2015 she was a co-founded Situations Gallery[4] in the Lower East Side in New York City.[5] where she hosted Temporal Situations,[6] a month-long program of live and time-based events from 2016 to 2017.[7] Her work appears on the cover of the 2016 Elton John album "Wonderful Crazy Night."[8] She is represented by M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, and Van Doren Waxter in New York City.[9]
Robertson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and spent her childhood in Sacramento, California.[1] She served as curator at Lair of the Minotaur gallery in San Francisco in the 2000s.[10]
Education
    
Robertson received her BA in Religious Studies from UC Berkley, and her MFA from Yale University.[11]
Exhibitions and performances
    
2006:
- Please lie down and take a nap with me in my grave, Guild & Greyshkul, New York City
 
2007:
- Nudes, Still Lives and Landscapes, Guild & Greyshkul, New York City
 
2009:
- Take Better Pictures, Museum 52, New York, NY
 - Guild & Greyshkul, New York City Performance.
 - I Am Passions,[12] Marvelli Gallery,[13] New York, NY[14]
 
2010:
- 'Performance, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach.[15]
 - Solo Presentation, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
 - 50 Artists Photograph the Future, Higher Pictures, New York, NY[16]
 
2011:
- MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. Performance.
 - Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. Solo exhibition.[17]
 - Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT. Performance.[18]
 - HOT TROPICAL RAIN JAM Museum 52, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition[19]
 
2012:
- Let's Change, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Solo exhibition.[20]
 - Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Performance.
 - The First Annual Artists’ Halloween Carnival and Parade, Museum of Modern Art, New York City Performance.[21]
 - New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), New York City[22]
 
2013:
- Permanent Puberty, American Contemporary, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.
 
2014:
- A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Group Exhibition[23]
 - What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York, NY. Group Exhibition[24]
 - Modern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. Group Exhibition[25]
 - Paris Photo, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
 
2015:
2016:
- Two-person exhibition with Jennie Jieun Lee, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.
 
2017:
- Chaos Power Center, 11R, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.
 
2018:
- The Hydra, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition[28]
 - Fun Packed Holiday, Lora Reynolds, Austin, TX
 
2019:
- Mariah Robertson, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN. Solo Exhibition.
 
2020:
- Summer Selection 2020, Galerie Miranda, Paris, FR. Group Exhibition.[29]
 - Repetition and Difference, Van Doren Waxter, New York City. Solo Exhibition.[30]
 
2021:
- Repetition & Difference, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition.
 
Residency
    
- 2011: Central Utah Art Center[31]
 - 2016, MacDowell Colony[32]
 
Collections
    
Robertson's work is held in the following permanent public collections:
References
    
- "Mariah Robertson | ART21 New York Close Up". Art:21. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
 - Gallery, Saatchi. "Out of Focus: Photography". www.saatchigallery.com. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
 - "Greater New York - MoMA". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
 - "Jerry the Marble Faun". situations.us. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
 - "Bruno Ceschel's Best of 2017". December 30, 2017.
 - "'TEMPORAL SITUATIONS' At 127 Henry Street, New York, NY 10002". ART HAPS. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
 - "Looking Back on 2017: Art by - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
 - Ryzik, Melena (January 27, 2016). "Elton John, Still Rocking Out (and Speaking Out) With a Flourish". The New York Times. No. Music.
 - Russeth, Andrew (September 7, 2017). "Mariah Robertson Joins Van Doren Waxter". ARTnews.
 - "The art of failure". April 16, 2001. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
 -   (PDF). Yale School of Art https://bulletin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/art-2006-2007.pdf. 
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 - Rosenberg, Karen (October 22, 2009). "Art in Review". The New York Times. No. Art & Design.
 - Maine, Stephen (January 15, 2010). "Mariah Robertson". Art in America.
 - McGarry, Kevin. "Art Basel Miami Beach - The Art of Parties, Day Three".
 - Cotter, Holland (May 27, 2010). "'50 Artists Photograph the Future'". The New York Times.
 - "Baltic Plus - Mariah Robertson". balticplus.uk.
 - "VIDEO: A Mid-Opening Performance by Mariah Robertson & An Installation View". December 9, 2011.
 - Riley, Chris. "Ryan Trecartin, Willem de Kooning, New York Solo Photo Shows". ARTFORUM.
 - "Brochure" (PDF). www.grandarts.com.
 - "The First Annual Artists' Halloween Carnival and Parade - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
 - Rosenberg, Karen (May 4, 2012). "Another Fair Makes a Debut, and Aims to Lure the Collectors Already in Town". The New York Times. No. Art Review.
 - Smith, Roberta (February 6, 2014). "When a Form Is Given Its Room to Play". The New York Times. No. Art Review.
 - Jonnson, Ken (January 30, 2014). "Digital, Analog and Waterlogged". The New York Times. No. Art Review.
 - Levere, Jane L. (May 2015). "In Huntington, an Exhibition of Pioneering Photography Through the Ages". The New York Times. Arts.
 - "Mariah Robertson's "PHOTOGRAPHY LOVERS' PENINSULA" @ M+B, Los Angeles". JUXTAPOZ.
 - Ollman, Leah (March 12, 2015). "Critic's Choice: Mariah Robertson's vigorous tussle with photography". Los Angeles Times. No. Entertainment & Arts.
 - "Mariah Robertson's Prismatic Photograms Showcase Her Startling Darkroom Ingenuity—See Them Here | artnet News". artnet News. January 19, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
 - "Galerie Miranda exhibits works selected along the themes of nature, calm and the beauty of simple things | artdaily.com". artdaily.com. July 2, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
 - "Goings On About Town, Mariah Robertson | The New Yorker". The New Yorker. October 19, 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
 - "Conscious Utah Awesomeness Children: Mariah Robertson". Central Utah Art Center. November 30, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
 - "Mariah Robertson - Artist". MacDowell.
 - "Untitled (3)". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
 - "Mariah Robertson". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
 - "Search View". ncartmuseum.org. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
 - "Mariah Robertson | 243". Whitney of American Art.
 
Sources
    
"Bio, Mariah Robertson". American Contemporary, website. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2012.
External links
    
- Official website
 - Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions | ART21 “New York Close Up”
 - Mariah Robertson Wears a Yellow Suit to Work | "New York Close Up" | Art21
 - West, Tanner, "On View: Mariah Robertson’s Prismatic Photograms Showcase Her Startling Darkroom Ingenuity—See Them Here", Artnet, January 19th, 2018
 - “The Look Out”, Art in America, May 18, 2017
 - Russeth, Andrew.“Mariah Robertson: Permanent Puberty at American Contemporary”The New York Observer.November 2013.
 - Small, Rachel. “Mariah Robertson's Unplanning.”Interview. October 2013.
 - Mariah Robertson reading Nomadology : The War Machine by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Printed Matters
 - Mariah Robertson’s Bold Photographic Installations Go on Display, Architectural Digest