Mariah Robertson


Mariah Robertson is an American artist working primarily with experimental darkroom photography. She is known for her large-scale photograms, camera-less works, and chemically manipulated photographs that embrace unpredictability and chance. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
She lives in New York City.
Robertson has exhibited work internationally including at Saatchi Gallery in London and MoMA PS1 in Long Island City. In 2015 she co-founded Situations Gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she hosted Temporal Situations, a month-long program of live and time-based events from 2016 to 2017. Her work appears on the cover of the 2016 Elton John album "Wonderful Crazy Night." She is represented by M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, and Van Doren Waxter in New York City. Robertson's work is included in the 2023-2024 exhibition The Sky's the Limit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Robertson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and spent her childhood in Sacramento, California. She was curator at Lair of the Minotaur gallery in San Francisco in the 2000s.

Education

Robertson received her B.A. in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.F.A. in 2005 from Yale University School of Art.

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, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2010: Performance, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach.Solo Presentation,, Berlin50 Artists Photograph the Future, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2011:
2012: Let's Change, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO. Solo exhibition.
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 ExhibitionWhat is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York, NY. Group ExhibitionModern Alchemy: Experiments in Photography, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. Group ExhibitionParis Photo, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Photography Lovers’ Peninsula, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition
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 ExhibitionFun 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.
  • Repetition and Difference, Van Doren Waxter, New York City. Solo Exhibition.
2021:Repetition & Difference, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Solo Exhibition.

Residency

Collections

Robertson's work is held in the following permanent public collections: