Karla Roberts
born: Spokane, Washington
current: lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
education
1997 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1986 BFA, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
solo projects/installations
2007 Brooklyn, NY: installation “Toll Ahead” (May)
2002 Hillsdale, NY; installation: “Embalm” (August)
2000 Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY; installation: “Winter Provisions” (January-April)
1998 6th Street and Cooper Square, New York, NY; installation: “Royal Pine” (March-April)
1997 Gallery 2, Chicago, IL; Graduate Thesis Exhibition, installation: “Timber” (April)
group exhibitions
2008 Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY; “Mend” and “The Hall of Gowanus” (October)
Windows Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; “Storefront Windows” (June)
2007 A.G.A.S.T. Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour (October)
Ed Schmidt’s Dumbolio, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY (April)
2006 A.G.A.S.T. Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour (October)
2005 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME; “Design Series” (January-May)
2004 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA; “DeTour” (August)
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; “AIM:24, Artist in the Marketplace” (April-June)
1998 Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Posted@Beret” (February)
1997 Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; “NeoLandscape” (June)
collections and archives
2006 Tipoteca Type Museum, Cornuda, Italy
2005 Department of Cultural Affairs, Percentage for Art Program Artist Directory, New York, NY
2004 retitle.com, online Artist Directory, London, UK
2004 Artists Space, Irvin Sandler Artist File online, New York, NY
awards
2006 Tintoretto Studio, Member, Venice, Italy
Tipoteca Type Museum, Residency, Cornuda, Italy
2004 NYFA/Arts Center of the Capital Region, Special Opportunity Stipend
2003 Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM program, Spring
1998 The Little Tree Corporation, material donation for “Royal Pine”
1996 SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design), Educational Grant
1995 Full tuition Trustee Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
bibliography
2007 Amy Chase Gulden, “The Gallery,” Apartment Therapy, October 11, 2007
Brent Burkett, “Death Toll,” Heart as Arena, June 20, 2007
Robert Guskind, “New Gowanus Signage: Toll Ahead,” The Gowanus Lounge, May 31, 2007
2004 Herzberg, Julia. “Aim: The Artist in the Marketplace,” ArtNexus, No. 54, Volume 3, p 177
Mitchell, John. “City Exhibit: All you need is Love,” The North Adams Transcript, August 19, Entertainment Section
Genocchio, Benjamin. “A Chance to Fill Up on Visual Treats,” The New York Times, Westchester Late Edition, Sunday, April 25, 2004:
Section 14, p 9
Section 14, p 9
AIM:24 (cat), Artist in the Marketplace. The Bronx Museum of the Arts (April)
2002 Cattelan, Maurizio, Funcke, Bettina, Gioni, Massimiliano, Subotnick, Ali (eds). Charley Magazine, May
2000 “Sculptural memorial recalls victims of genocidal famine,” The Ukrainian Weekly, April 9, p 9
1998 Kellogg, Craig. “Insites,” Metropolis, July, p 42
1997 Ferrara, Annette and Liese, Jennifer. “Shopping in the Art Supermarket,” F magazine, May, p 27
1996 Roberts, Karla. Presentation: “Winter Provisions”, SEGD Conference, Society for Environmental Design, Boston, MA (May)
Roberts, Karla. “Commemorating the Ukrainian Famine,” Dimensions: A design Journal of the Society for Environmental Graphic
Design, Vol. 3 No. 2, p 32
Design, Vol. 3 No. 2, p 32
1993 Zines (cat), Boise State University. p 17-18
