b. 1980 in Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.

Education

2007 M.A., Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2007 M.F.A., Textiles, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2003 B.A., English (with Honors), University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
2003 B.A., Studio Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Awards, Honors, Fellowships, Residencies, and Grants

2010-11 Emerging Artist Residency Fellowship in Craft and Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
2010 MacDowell Colony Residency (forthcoming)
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Art and Design Studio Program, New York, NY.
2009 Smack Mellon Hot Pick Artist, New York, NY.
2008 Searchlight Artist Award, American Craft Council
2007 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Finalist
2007 Dennis Leon Faculty Award, California College of the Arts
2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Nominee, International Sculpture Center
2007 California College of the Arts Graduate Commencement Speaker (selected by peers)
2007 Craft Research Fund Graduate Grant Award, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design
2006 Shaping the Future of Craft National Leadership Conference Scholarship
2005 Murphy Cadogan Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
2005 Teaching Assistantship Award, California College of the Arts
2004-5 Toni Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2003 Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize, Academy of American Poets
2002 Ian Crawford Memorial Award For Fine Art, University of Vermont

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Building It Up To Tear It Down, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. (Catalogue Available)
2008 The Master’s Tools (Decay Goes Both Ways), Little Tree Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Group Exhibitions

2010
The Artist is Absent, 25 CPW Gallery, New York, NY
Space Odyssey, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009
Stitched, Looped and Knitted: Contemporary Needle Art, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA.
Threads, National Queer Arts Festival, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA.

2008
Capital Jewelers, Naomi Arin Contemporary Art (Formerly Dust Gallery), Las Vegas NV.
Mystery Ball, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
Making Room for Wonder, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA.
Optic Illusion: Southern Exposure’s Annual Fundraiser and Auction, San Francisco, CA.
Searchlight Artist Award Exhibition at the American Craft Council Show, Baltimore, MD.

2007
Southern Exposure Soft Sculpture Security Curtain (Commission for Southern Exposure Gallery on permanent view.)
C-Change, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco California.
Allison Smith’s Notion Nanny Fair, MATRIX, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Legacy, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA.

2006
Made In: CCA Textiles Department, North/South Gallery, Oakland, CA.
Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA.
Unexpected Developments, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2005
Context, North/South Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
CCA/SFAI Joint Graduate Exhibition, Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA, (Juried)
Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (Jurors: Rene De Guzman, Carole Laedwig, Steven Jenkins)
WAR! SOMArts, National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA.
Fresh Meat In the Gallery, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA.
Public/Private, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA.
GenderQueers/QueerGenders, University Of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Textile is a State of Mind, North/ South Gallery, Oakland, CA.

2004
Studio Fuji, Group Show, Studio Fuji, Florence, Italy. 2003
Senior Show (solo exhibition), Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

2002
Ian Crawford Memorial Award Show (solo exhibition), Francis Colburn Gallery, Burlington, VT.

Teaching Experience

2008
Graduate Studio Practice Instructor, MFA Program, California College of the Arts

2007
Visiting Faculty, Knit One, Textiles Department, California College of the Arts

Teaching Assistant

Fiber Sculpture, California College of the Arts
Introduction to Textiles, California College of the Arts
Advanced Sculpture, University of Vermont

Other Selected Work Experience

Artist-in-Residence/Art Teacher, Leake and Watts Services, The Bronx, NY.
Research Assistant to Lydia Matthews, Dean, Parsons: The New School for Design, New York, NY.

Technical Skills

Fiber techniques: Knitting, twining, Peruvian wrapping, vacuum forming, latex, knotless netting, multiple harness floor loom and loom maintenance, block printing, basket-weaving, felting, embroidery, hand and machine sewing, overlock/serger.

Wood: Planer, jointer, table saw, band saw, chop saw, power sanders, jog saw, hand tools, knowledge of wood and tree anatomy.

Other: Papier Mache, plaster caster, silicone casting.

Primary theoretical and conceptual interests: Critical Craft Theory, Feminist Art 1970 to present, Jewish Studies and Queer/Gender Theory.

Visiting Artist Lectures, Conferences and Workshops

2010
Panelist, Emerging Artist's Panel, Surface Design Association Conference
Visiting Artist Lecture, Parson's: The New School for Design, New York, NY
Co-chair, Push and/or Pull: Trans and Gender-variant Artists discuss the Roll of Feminism in Their Work,
College Art Association Conference, Chicago Il.

2009
Visiting Artist, Fiber and Materials Studies Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Closing Panel, American Craft Council Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
Queering Craft, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

2008
In the Loop Conference, Winchester College of Art, Winchester, England.

2007
NeoCraft Conference, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Nova Scotia, Canada
Visiting Artist, University of Oregon, Eugene OR.
Visual Criticism Symposium, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA.
Textiles Senior Projects, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
Interdisciplinary Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

2006
Introduction to Textiles, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
Fiber Sculpture, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California.

2005
Introduction to Textiles, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
Fiber Sculpture, College of Marin, Marin, CA.

2004
Introduction to Textiles, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA.
Introduction to Textile Science, University of California at Davis.

Bibliography

--Hemmings, Jessica. In the Loop: Knitting Now. England: Black Dog Publishing, 2010
--McDade, Marci Rae. "Reinvention in San Francisco." FiberArts. Summer 2010
--Auther, Elissa. String, Felt and Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art.
Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2010
--Tully, Jessica. "Building It Up To Tear It Down." Catalogue Essay, Southern Exposure Gallery
–-Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Queerly Made: Harmony Hammond’s Floorpieces.” The Journal of Modern Craft. Volume 2--Issue 1. pp.59-80, Berg Publishers, 2009.
–-Hemmings, Jessica. “Guerilla Tactics and Feats of Negotiation: Knitted Installations by Lacey Jane Roberts and Sopie Horton. Surface Design Journal. Summer 2009. V. 3 #33.
--Adamson, Glenn. “Pink Yarn and Other Signs of the Times.” Motion Blur: American Craft. Gustavsberg Konsthall Sweeden, 2009.
--“Interview with Lacey Jane Roberts” http://www.sprayblog.net/spraygraphic-interview-with-artist-lacey-jane-roberts/
–Gschwandtner, Artist Spotlight: Lacey Jane Roberts: Dismantling Systems of Power Interweave Knits. Winter, 2008.
--Kelly, Danielle. “Capital Ideas.” Las Vegas Weekly. Nov. 5, 2008.
Online: http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/oct/30/capital-ideas
--Roos, Zephyr Yokoyama. Lacey Jane Roberts. Plastic Antimony. Issue 2, Spring 2008.
--Kurtz, Katie. Fenced in, Kept Out. Craft Magazine. Spring, 2008.
--Matthews, Lydia. “Opening Essay.” Shaping the Future of Craft. Ed. Hampton, Monica and Lily Kane. New York:American Craft Council, 2007.
--Huston, Johnny Ray. “Flaming Creators.” San Francisco Bay Guardian. 20-26 Jun 2007. Also available online at www.sfbg.com/blogs/pixel_vision/2007/06/flaming_creators.htm
--Solomon, Lisa. “Give Me A C: Putting the Craft Back in Art.” Kitchen Sink Magazine. V. 14. 2007.
--Smith, Allison, “Lacey Jane Roberts.” http://www.notionnanny.net/news/index.html 21 Jun 2007.
--Glover, Narangkar. “The Handmade vs. The Brainmade.” www.narangkar.com. 27 May 2007.
--Trippe, John. “CCA 07’ Graduate Exhibition.” www.fecalface.com. 15 May 2007.
--Callaway, Bob. “CCA MFA Exhibit.” http:artfever.blogspot.com. 13 May 2007.
--Gschwandtner, Sabrina ed. KnitKnit 6. New York, New York. December 2005.
--KQED Public Television, Gallery Talk: Cadogan/Murphy Fellowship Awards, SPARK, October, 2005.
--Bing, Alison, Rev. of Cadogan and Murphy Fellowships.  SFGATE.com.  September, 2005.

Writing

Roberts, Lacey Jane. “Put Your Thing Down Flip It and Reverse It: Re-imaging Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory.” Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture and Contemporary Art. Ed. Maria Elena Buszek (forthcoming on Duke University Press)
More Info: http://www.mariabuszek.com/extraordinarybook/index.htm

Roberts, Lacey Jane. “Craft, Queerness, and Guerilla Tactics.” In The Loop Conference Publication. Winchester College of Art. (forthcoming).

“Put Your Thing Down, Flip It, and Reverse It: Re-imagining Craft Identities Using Tactics of Queer Theory.” Sightlines. San Francisco: California, 2006.

Community Service

--Co-chair, Queer Caucus for Art, College Art Association
--After-school program volunteer at The Harvey Milk School, New York, NY.
--Graduate Student Committee on Diversity, California College of the Arts
--Founding member, Translating Identity Conference, a free symposium on gender and sexuality at the University of Vermont.
--Visibility Coordinator, GLBT Student Alliance (Free 2 Be), University of Vermont.

Professional Affiliations

College Art Association
Queer Caucus for Art