Liisa Roberts

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Liisa Roberts (born 1969) is a Finnish-American artist. [1] [2] She was born in Paris, France, to a Finnish mother and an American father of Russian-Jewish descent. [3] [4]

Work

Roberts is known for her installation works that use film. [5] [6] [7] The visual style of her work has been called "a critique of minimalist phenomenology". [7] (See minimalist and phenomenology.)

Roberts was included in the 2015 Venice Biennale. [8] Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art [2] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. [9]

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