• Orwell's Garden II, High Desert, Brooklyn, NY, January 13-28, 2024

    Orwell's Garden II, High Desert, Brooklyn, NY, January 13-28, 2024
  • Residencies, 2023

    Monson Arts, Monson, Maine, January-February 2023
    Yaddo, June 16-August 10, 2023
    Ucross, October 2-25, 2023
    Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, November 25-December 21, 2023

  • Schema, Marlborough Gallery, May 11-August 15, 2023

    Schema, Marlborough Gallery, May 11-August 15, 2023

    Schema: World as Diagram, May 11-August 15, Marlborough New York.
    Historical and contemporary work by more than 50 artists, curated by Raphael Rubinstein and Heather Bause Rubinstein: with Minjeong An, Shusaku Arakawa, Jennifer Bartlett, Gianfranco Baruchello, Forrest Bess, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Chimes, Mike Cloud, Janet Cohen, Alan Davie, Guy de Cointet, Agnes Denes, David Diao, Lydia Dona, León Ferrari, Charles Gaines, Renee Gladman, Joanne Greenbaum, Lane Hagood, Jane Hammond, Hilma’s Ghost, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfred Jensen, Christine Sun Kim, Karla Knight, Guillermo Kuitca, Paul Laffoley, Barry Le Va, Mark Lombardi, Chris Martin, Stephen Mueller, Matt Mullican, Loren Munk, Antoni Muntadas, Paul Pagk, Yulia Pinkusevich, Miguel Angel Ríos, Leslie Roberts, Heather Bause Rubinstein, Julian Schnabel, Amy Sillman, Wadada Leo Smith, Gael Stack, Tavares Strachan, Jimmy and Angie Tchooga, Dannielle Tegeder, Bernar Venet, Ouattara Watts, Melvin Way, Trevor Winkfield

  • Homage, Fred Gallery, April 6-May 7, 2023

    Homage, Fred Gallery, April 6-May 7, 2023
  • Curated Material Investment, The Bank, Newark, Ohio, 2022

    Curated Material Investment, The Bank, Newark, Ohio, 2022



    "Material Investment," September 9-October 16, 2022. Artists: Alex Paik, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Amanda Love, Jeff Wallace, Kevin Umaña, Lisha Bai, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Sean Desiree, Tracey Goodman, Vadis Turner.
    Curated by Leslie Roberts. Installed in an art Deco former bank building in Newark, Ohio.

    Delighted by Jenny Zoe Casey's review in Two Coats of Paint, September 30, 2022: Letter from the midwest: Fine value at The Bank
    See Instagram @material_investment

    above left: Alex Paik (image by Alex Paik). Above right: Tracey Goodman

  • Residencies, Marble House Project & Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2022

  • Solo show NOW WHAT, 57W57 Arts, New York, NY, 2021

    Solo show NOW WHAT, 57W57 Arts, New York, NY, 2021
  • Colored Pencil Redux, Mckenzie Fine Art, New York, NY, 2021

    Colored Pencil Redux, Mckenzie Fine Art, New York, NY, 2021

    With Patricia Bender, Nancy Blum, Jacob Cartwright, Gionna Cuccolo, Mara Held, Warren Isensee, Cotter Luppi, Senem Oezdogan, Gary Petersen, Noah Post, Leslie Roberts, Jessica Rosner, Katia Santibañez, Audrey Stone, Richard Tinkler, and Geoffrey Young. July 9 - August 20, 2021

  • Included in book DECODING MANHATTAN: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics

    Included in book DECODING MANHATTAN: Island of Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics

    By Antonis Antoniou and Steven Heller, Abrams Books, 2021. New York City seen in over 250 maps, charts, games, and other diagrams. Includes Saul Steinberg, Florine Stettheimer, Christoph Niemann, Roz Chast, Milton Glaser, Loren Munk, Ward Shelley. Reviews: LitHub and the New Yorker.

  • (de)coding, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2021

    (de)coding, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2021

    (de)coding With Gina Adams, DARNStudio, Elizabeth Duffy, Ghost of a Dream, Shanti Grumbine, Kwesi Kwarteng, Debra Ramsay, Leslie Roberts, and Viviane Rombaldi-Seppey. Curated by Mary Birmingham. February–April 2021

  • Curated "All the Pieces Matter," Studio Archive Project, 2021

    We're building something here, detective, and we're building it from scratch. And all the pieces matter.
    —Detective Lester Freamon, The Wire

    All the Pieces Matter: With Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Ellen Kozak, Glendalys Medina, Iona Fromboluti, Jennifer K. Moses, Katherine Duclos, Kevin Umaña, Linnea Paskow, Louisa Waber, Mary Temple, Paul D'Agostino, Stephanie L. Franks, Susan Wanklyn, and Vadis Turner. Virtual exhibition curated by Leslie Roberts for Studio Archive Project, launched July 15, 2021.



  • Porch Series #27: Leslie Roberts, 57W57 Arts

    Porch Series #27: Leslie Roberts, 57W57 Arts
  • SUM Artists: Visual Diagrams and Systems-Based Explorations, Wellin Museum, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 2020

    This exhibition presents thirty artists and collectives, including Vincent Como, David Diao, Mary Beth Edelson, Richard Garrison, the Guerrilla Girls, Alfred Jensen, Loren Munk, Eadweard Muybridge, John O’Connor, Wendy Red Star, Faith Ringgold, Leslie Roberts, Dread Scott, Ward Shelley, and John Zinsser. February 15 — June 14, 2020. Curated by Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martínez.

  • Paul Klee’s Ages of Influence: David Zwirner website, 2019

    Paul Klee’s Ages of Influence: David Zwirner website, 2019
  • Published essay on Paul Klee for Painters on Paintings

  • Solo Show, HOW THINGS ARE, Minus Space, Brooklyn, 2019

    Solo Show, HOW THINGS ARE, Minus Space, Brooklyn, 2019

    LESLIE ROBERTS: HOW THINGS ARE September 7 - October 26, 2019

  • Secondary Sources, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, 2019

    SECONDARY SOURCES Curated by Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris. Artists who archive ephemera: Anthony Campuzano, Nyeema Morgan, Leslie Roberts, Brandi Twilley, and Shoshanna Weinberger. September 6–October 6, 2019

  • Residencies, Yaddo and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2019

  • Colored Pencil, McKenzie Fine Art, 2019

    Colored Pencil, McKenzie Fine Art, 2019

    Twenty artists exhibit work in colored pencil at McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY.

  • Screenprint edition, DIRECTIONS, Kayrock, February 2019

    Screenprint edition, DIRECTIONS, Kayrock, February 2019

    Kayrock Screenprinting released DIRECTIONS as part of its Fresh Prints editions in February 2019. Two colors on French 100lb cover, signed and numbered edition of 169.

  • Artist Lecture Series Number 63: October 27, 2018, 6;30 pm

    James Bills & Leslie Roberts in series curated by Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Christopher Schade & Michael Lee, and hosted by Kristen Schiele. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.

  • Honored to be included in Stephanie Buhmann's new book

    Honored to be included in Stephanie Buhmann's new book

    Stephanie Buhmann, New York Studio Conversations II, 21 Women Talk About Art, The Green Box, Berlin, 2018 Interviews with Mary Abbott, Ghada Amer, Petah Coyne, Louise Fishman, Judy Glantzman, Lorrie Goulet, Julie Heffernan, Alicia Henry, Virva Hinnemo, Sharon Horvath, Julie Mehretu, Keiko Narahashi, Shirin Neshat, Leslie Roberts, Carolee Schneemann, Shahzia Sikander, Rebecca Smith, Pat Steir, Jessica Stockholder, Kim Uchiyama

  • Fact or Fiction, Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017

    Fact or Fiction, Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017

    Fact or Fiction, Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 7-28, 2017. Curated by Matthew Garrison


  • Residency, Ragdale Foundation, August 2017

  • FYEO: Solo exhibition at Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2016

    FYEO: Solo exhibition at Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
  • Residency, Ragdale Foundation, March 2016