{{short description|French artist}} '''Liisa Roberts''' (born 1969) is a Finnish-American artist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/storyteller|title=The Storyteller|website=Art Gallery of Ontario|access-date=2019-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411011158/https://ago.ca/exhibitions/storyteller|archive-date=2019-04-11|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="whitney"/> She was born in Paris, France, to a Finnish mother and an American father of Russian-Jewish descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://frame-finland.fi/en/2017/10/04/moma-adds-liisa-robertss-petersburg-underground-to-its-permanent-collection/|title=MoMA adds Liisa Roberts's Petersburg Underground to its permanent collection|date=4 October 2017|website=Frame Contemporary Art Finland|access-date=11 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411011035/https://frame-finland.fi/en/2017/10/04/moma-adds-liisa-robertss-petersburg-underground-to-its-permanent-collection/|archive-date=11 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000004151916.html |title=Viipurin kirjasto on risteys ja muutospiste |last1=Kivirinta |first1=Marja-Terttu |date=7 July 2003 |website=Helsingin Sanomat |language=fi |access-date=13 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412224742/https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000004151916.html |archive-date=12 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Work== Roberts is known for her installation works that use film.<ref name="Suderburg2000">{{cite book|author=Erika Suderburg|title=Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3CwSWamWVwC&pg=PA261|year=2000|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-3159-9|pages=261–}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/14/arts/art-review-images-shimmer-upon-screens-installed-in-the-imagination.html|title=ART REVIEW; Images Shimmer Upon Screens, Installed in the Imagination|first=Roberta|last=Smith|work=The New York Times |date=14 August 1998|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=11 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411011828/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/14/arts/art-review-images-shimmer-upon-screens-installed-in-the-imagination.html|archive-date=11 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="frieze"/> The visual style of her work has been called "a critique of minimalist phenomenology".<ref name="frieze">{{cite journal|url=https://frieze.com/article/liisa-roberts|title=Liisa Roberts|journal=Frieze|issue=43 |access-date=2019-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411012243/https://frieze.com/article/liisa-roberts|archive-date=2019-04-11|url-status=live|last1=Williams |first1=Gregory }}</ref> (See minimalist and phenomenology.)
Roberts was included in the 2015 Venice Biennale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/artists-announced-for-2015-venice-biennale-50555|title=Artists Announced for 2015 Venice Biennale|website=www.artforum.com|date=5 March 2015 |access-date=2019-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411012019/https://www.artforum.com/news/artists-announced-for-2015-venice-biennale-50555|archive-date=2019-04-11|url-status=live}}</ref> Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art<ref name="whitney">{{cite web|url=https://www.whitney.org/artists/5372|title=Liisa Roberts|website=www.whitney.org|access-date=2019-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411011001/https://www.whitney.org/artists/5372|archive-date=2019-04-11|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/67936|title=Liisa Roberts - MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=2019-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411010945/https://www.moma.org/artists/67936|archive-date=2019-04-11|url-status=live}}</ref>
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