SPE Southeast - Picturing Black Landscapes
Jamie Robertson
Jamie Robertson is a visual artist and educator who works in photography and video. Born and raised in Houston, her Texas roots inform her practice as she investigates the landscape of the American South as a living archive of Black life. Beginning with her own family, Robertson's work physically and spiritually engages the land as a primary witness to Black resistance, solace, and power.
Robertson has exhibited her work at Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Florida A & M University Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, FL; Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX; and 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM. Her solo exhibitions include Making Reference, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, MN (2020); One Hundred More, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX (2022); and Make For High Ground, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL (2023). She was in FORECAST 2021: SF Camerawork's Annual Survey Exhibition and Exposure Photography Festival's International Open Call (2022). She has received multiple grants and fellowships, including a Fellowship with the DocX Development Lab—Otherwise Histories, Otherwise Futures through The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the Puffin Foundation Ltd. Artist Grant (2023). Her photobook, Charting the Afriscape of Leon County, TX, was published in December 2020 with Fifth Wheel Press. Work from Charting the Afriscape... is in the collection of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. She earned an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Houston and an MS in Art Therapy from Florida State University. Robertson lives in Hampton Roads, Virginia, where she is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University.
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