Talia Roberts born in 1997 in Hollywood, Florida surrounded by a vibrant, tropical landscape and culture. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Psychology in 2019 from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Talia moved to Western Montana in 2020, finding inspiration in the heights and open expanses of the Rocky Mountain landscape. It was during her years living in Montana when she began making her own pigments using a mortar and pestle and other hand tools using the rocks from her immediate environment.
Roberts made a site-specific painting using pigments she made from rocks, soil and native sagebrush leaves from the land in 2021 for a private event with OpenAIR in Moiese, Montana. in 2022, Talia exhibited “7 Celestial Days of the Week”, a display of seven oil paintings which utilize Montana river rocks as pigment, at the Missoula Art Museum in a group exhibition titled Imaging The Sacred: Birdie Hall, Talia Roberts, Daphne Sweet, April Werle (Fall-Winter 2022-23). In 2023 the series “7 Celestial Days of the Week” (2022), sold to a private corporate collection in Big Sky, Montana. Talia has exhibited her newest series, “A Reflection of the Solar Year in Twelve Full Moons” (2023), at Echo Arts Gallery in Bozeman, Montana (April-July 2024). Talia’s work has been displayed at the Holter Museum of Art, and has sold to private collectors across Montana and throughout the United States. Talia is now living in the Northern Green Mountains of Vermont.
Education
B.A., Psychology and Studio Art, with a concentration in Painting, Wake Forest University, NC. 2019
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Spring Semester, 2017
Awards
Eleanor Layfield Davis Scholar, for talents in Painting & Sculpture, Wake Forest University. 2018-2019
Solo Exhibitions
2024
A Reflection of the Solar Year in Twelve Full Moons, Echo Arts Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2020
Voyages Across sRGB, Frontier Space, Missoula, MT
Group Exhibitions
2023
Imaging the Sacred, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
2022
Missoula Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Missoula MT
Holter Museum of Art Annual Exhibition, Helena, MT
2021
OpenAIR MT at Thunderhead Gardens, OpenAIR MT, Moiese, MT
Missoula Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Missoula MT
Holter Museum of Art Annual Exhibition, Helena, MT
2020
Missoula Art Museum Annual Exhibition, Missoula MT
2019
Student Exhibition, Charlotte & Philip Hanes Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
505:Error, 505 Baity Street, Winston Salem, NC
BYOB, 505 Baity Street, Winston Salem, NC
2018
Relevance, Womble Carlyle Gallery at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC.
2017
Let it Show, START Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Student Exhibition, Charlotte & Philip Hanes Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Collections
Corporate Collection, Big Sky, MT. 2023
Featured Articles
Cistone, Sierra. “'Imaging the Sacred': Missoula Art Museum shares creators' spiritual notions", The Missoulian, January 12, 2023.
Cistone, Sierra. “Missoula artist turns river rock into pigment for paintings”, The Missoulian, January 26, 2023.
Lectures, Presentations, and Workshops
Exhibiting Artist Lecture: Imagine the Sacred, Missoula Art Museum, Montana. December 8, 2022.
Planets, Painting and Perception, Teaching Workshop, Missoula Art Museum, Montana, November 19, 2022.