I'm honored to have a painting included in this major show of more than 200 Brooklyn artists, on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum's 200th anniversary. Curated by Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli.
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

A selection of great art by people who know what they like: For this benefit exhibition at the Drawing Center, 33 guest curators selected over 200 artists.

Time and Time Again: Arna Óttarsdóttir, Leslie Roberts, Amy Brener, Hafnarborg Museum, Hafnarfjördur, Iceland

This exhibition was inspired by Alfred Jensen, whose paintings and drawings center their energy between abstract form and an array of idea structures. With Mel Bochner, Becky Brown, Mike Cloud, Charles Gaines, Xylor Jane, Steffani Jemison, Alfred Jensen, Ellen Lesperance, Chris Martin, John O’Connor, Bruce Pearson, Leslie Roberts, Jorinde Voigt, Melvin Way, George Widener. Curated by Ken Weathersby and John O'Connor.

Exhibition Catalog

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: 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

"Material Investment," September 9-October 16, 2022. Curated by Leslie Roberts in an art Deco former bank building in Newark, Ohio. 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.

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

NOW WHAT, 57W57 Arts, Project Space, New York, NY, November 11-December 17, 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

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 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

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.

Virtual project curated by Sue Ravitz in 2020. Catalog published 2021.

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"

Wrote essay on "Fire in the Evening" by Paul Klee for Painters on Paintings, January 27, 2020

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

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

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.

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

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, October 7-28, 2017. Curated by Matthew Garrison

Leslie Roberts, FYEO, solo exhibition, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, September 10 – October 29, 2016