Education
2011 Howard University, Washington, D.C., Masters of Fine Arts Major: Painting
2005 Trinity College, Wash., D.C., Bachelors of Science, Major: Business Administration
1995 H.B. Woodlawn High School, High School Diploma, Arlington, VA
Art Instruction and Teaching Related Employment History
22 Art Professor, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD 15-16 Art Instructor, Roosevelt High-School, Washington, D.C. 12-15 Art Instructor, Academy for Ideal Education, Washington, D.C. 06-07 Visual Art Teacher, Capital Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, D.C.
05-06 Visual Arts Teacher, Perry School Community Services Center, Washington, D.C. 04-05 Manager, Ramee’ Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
03-04 Framing and Gallery Assistant, Capital Hill Art and Frame Shop, Washington, D.C.
Apprenticeships, Residencies and Visiting Artists Programs
2023 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2020 Visiting Artist Program, American University, Washington, DC 2019 Visiting Artist Program, Universidad de Sagrado de Corazon, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2019 Artist Residency, The Nicholoson Project, Washington, DC 2019 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy 2018 The Talking Stick Project, Residency, Salisbury, MD 2017 Washington Projects for the Arts and DC Public School Artist in Residence Program, Wash., D.C. 2016 Back to the Roots, Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano, Limon, Costa Rica
10-11 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DC Creates Public Art, Deanwood Recreation Center, Washington, D.C.
Awards and Grants
2024 Arts and Humanities Fellowship (AHFP) Grant, Washington, DC 2023 Arts and Humanities Fellowship (AHFP) Grant, Washington, DC 2022 Arts and Humanities Fellowship (AHFP) Grant, Washington, DC 2022 Semi-Finalist, Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize, Baltimore, MD 2011 Special Projects Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Wash., D.C. 2010 2nd Place Graduate Sculpture Award, Howard University Student Art Show
2009 2nd Place Graduate Painting Award, Howard University Student Art Show
2006 1st Place Graduate Experimental Studio, Howard University Student Art Show
2006 Graduate Honorable Mention, Howard University Student Art Show
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 El Cuadrado Gris Galeria, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2025 Cultural DC, Washington, DC 2024 Indiana State University, Terry Haute, Indiana 2023 Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC 2023 International Arts and Artists at Hillyear, Washington, DC 2022 August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA 2022 Tinney Contemporary, Knoxville, Tennessee 2022 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2021 American University, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC 2020 Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2018 Washington College, Chestertown, MD 2018 Third Eye Open, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC 2017 Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA 2017 Arts Center/Gallery Delaware State University, Dover, DE 2012 Milked, Riverviews Art Space, Lynchberg, Virginia
2012 With Every Fiber of My Being, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2011 Milked, National League of American Penn Woman, Washington, D.C.
2011 Wired, Installation and Exhibit, Pleasant Plains Workshop, Washington, D.C.,
2010 Matrices of Transformation, Michael Platt Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Dual Solo Exhibitions
2014 Catalyst Projects, Washington, DC
2010 Pretty Things, Little Treasures and Hidden Meanings, The Gallery at AYN Studio, Washington, DC
Three - Five Person Exhibitions/Art Fairs
2023 Butter Art Fair, Indianapolis, IN 2023 Knowhere Art Gallery, Oaks Bluff, MA 2022 Untitled Art Fair, Tafeta Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida 2021 Tafeta Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2020 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, United Kingdom 2018 Rush Arts Galleries, Manhattan, New York 2017 The Art of Undoing Spells, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2015 How We Lost DC, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 Divinity Revealed, African Heritage Cultural Center Amadlozi Gallery, Miami, Florida
2014 Real Beauty, Carroll Square Gallery, curated by Hemphill Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2012 No Strings Attached, 39th Street Gallery, Brentwood, MD
2011 Ascension, Parish Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2011 Delusions of Grandeur, Mandarin Oriental Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2011 Beyond the Pale, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2010 Focus Group: Four Walls, Four Women, DC Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
2010 Intersecciones Culturales/Cultural Crossroad, Brentwood Art Exchange at Gateway Art Center, Brentwood, MD
2007 Beads, Light, and Color, New Horizons Gallery, Children’s Hospital Wash., D.C.
Selected International Exhibitions
2021 Royal Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition, London, England 2016 Parallax Art Fair, London, United Kingdom 2010 Masterpiece Mini, Galeri Aswara, National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Hula Lumpur, Malaysia 2010 Gaza Strip II, Atelier & Galeria Felipe Lamadrid, Cadiz, Spain 2010 Capital Flower, European Cultural Capital of 2010, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany 2010 Spaventapasseri, Art Gallery Atrebates, Dozza, Italy
Traveling Exhibitions
2026 Imagining Archipelago, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME 2025 Delusions of Grandeur, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art | Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 25-28 Back and Forth: Keeping Time in Vaivén, University of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2025 Solace and Sisterhood, David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD 2023 Solace and Sisterhood, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, Virginia 2023 Trenzando Identidades, Saludos cordiales, el Museo Casa Escuté del Municipio Autónomo de Carolina, La Humacao, Puerto Rico
Commissioned Workshops/Panels/Presentations/Competitions/Guest Speaker
2024 Artist Talk-Workshop, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2023 Panelist, Black As Me: Blackness Quantified, College Arts Association, New York, NY 2022 Black Portraiture Conference, Panelist, University-Newark, New Jersey 2022 Artist Talk, Howard University, Washington, DC 2022 Black Portraiture Conference, Panelist, University-Newark, New Jersey 2022 Community Ties, Panel, Surface Design, Virtual Presentation 2021 Bridging Ties: Like Lavender to Purple, Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, DC 2021 Examining Black Existentialism, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL 2021 Weaving Identity, A Conversation on Textile Practice in the 21st Century, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL 2021 Salon Talk: Amber Robles-Gordon with Curator, Tuliza Fleming at Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC 2021 Successions: Traversing US Colonialism, with Curator, Larry Ossei-Mensah, American University, Washington, DC 2021 Artist Talk, VCUarts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2021 A Successions Conversation with Amber Robles-Gordon and Author, Daniel Immerwahr, How To Hide An Empire, American University, Washington, DC 2021 Artist Talk, VCUarts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 2020 Webinar, Black Womanhood: Language, Art and History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2020 Virtual Artist Talk, Guest Critic, Studio Visits, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 2020 Virtual Artist Talk, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 2020 Virtual Artist Talk, American University, Washington, DC 2020 Virtual Artist Talk, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 19 2020 Artist Talk, La Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, SJ, Puerto Rico 2019 Fertile Grounds, Artist Conversation with Zoe Charlton and A. Robles-Gordon 2017 Workshop, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC 2017 Presentation, Mc Daniel College, Westminster, MD 2017 Presentation and workshop, The Intention in Creation: Chaos or Community, African American Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Facilitator, Deconstruction/Reconstruction: Reusing Found Objects workshop, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
2016 Panelist, Riffing on the Legacy of the Black Arts Movement, American University, Museum at Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C.
2016 Panelist, Looking Forward, Trends in Contemporary American Art, Phillips Collections, Washington, D.C.
2016 Presenter, David C. Driskell Center, College Park MD
2015 Guest, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Washington, D.C.
11-12 Art Commentator, Around Town, WETA, Washington, D.C.
2011 Guest, Aljazeera, Washington, D.C.
2011 Presenter/Juried by John Bankston, Under the Influence, 30 Americans Competition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2011 Presenter, The National League of American Pen Women, Washington, D.C. 2009 BADC Representative, Gallery Talk and Tour, Commissioned by Luther Collage, Decorah, Iowa 2006 How to Make a Paper Mosaic, Workshop Commissioned by Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center of African American History and Culture
Commissioned Site Specific Installations/Public Art/ Murals/Art Fairs
2023 Meta Open Arts Program, Public Artwork, Washington, DC 2019 For Ida B. Wells and Coolidge, Department of General Services, Washington, DC 2019 Fertile Grounds, The Nicholoson Project, Washington, DC 2019 With Every Fiber of My Being, Democracy Fund, Washington, DC 2018 The Fibrous Ties The Bind, Public Art Installation, Salisbury, MD 17-18 Public Artwork, Martha’s Table Headquarters, Washington, DC 2017 Art Installation, Ifyoulivedheredc, Pinkline Project at Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, D.C. 2016 Art Installation, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD 2015 Public Art, Department of General Services, Washington, DC
2014 Public Art Installation, Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington, DC
2014 Installation, Workshop, and Panel, James A. Porter Colloquium, Howard University
2014 Installation, Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
2014 Prizm Art Fair, Marquis Miami, Miami, Florida
2013 Prizm Art Fair, Marquis Miami, Miami, Florida
2013 Temporary Installation, The 25 Project, United Negro College Fund, Wash. D.C.
2013 Temporary Public Art Installation, Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
2013 Art Installation, Hair Shrines: Praise and Be Praised, Athenaeum Gallery, Alex. VA
2013 Public Art Installation, Deanwood Recreation Center, Washington. D.C.
2012 Art Installation, Art Africa Miami, Miami, Florida
2012 Art Installation, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkalaba, New York, N.Y.
2011 Art Installation, Pleasant Plains Workshop, Washington, D.C.
2009 Windows in D.C. Mural, Commission on the Arts And Humanities, Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
2009 Art Installation, First on 1st Art and Music Walk, Washington, D.C.
07-09 Installation Exhibitor, Artomatic, Washington, D.C.
Group Gallery, Museum and University Exhibitions
2024 The Diaspora Solidarities Lab, The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 2023 Finding Home, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD 2023 Puerto Rico Negrx, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico 2023 Fibers of My Soul, Knowhere Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, Oaks Bluffs, MA 2021 We Built This House, The Anderson, VCU Arts, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA 2017 Living on the Land, Salisbury University Art Gallery, Salisbury, MD 2016 Arts for Justice, American University, Katzen Center, Washington, DC 2015 Personal Patterns, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD 11-13 Transformer Silent Auction Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C. 2010 Global Art Buzz, University of California, Washington Center, Washington, D.C.
2009 Colorblind/Colorsight, The Rotunda Gallery at American University, Wash., D.C.
2009 Migrations: BADC Exhibit, Luther Collage, Decorah, Iowa
2007 A Creative Profile: Artist of the East Bank, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, D.C.
2006 Sistahs, In Our Own Words, Banneker Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD 2006 Mother and Child: Expression of Love, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, D.C.
2005 The 16th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium Gala, Howard University Armour J. Blackburn Center, Washington, D.C.
Selective List of Juried Exhibits
2017 Archromatic, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA 2016 Quilts and Social Fabrics, Harvey B. Gnatt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina 2015 My Big Black America, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC 2014 I Kan Do That, Skylight Gallery, Curated by Danny Simmons, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Alchemical Vessels, Smith Center for Healing Arts, Washington, DC 2011 Options 2011 Biennial Showcase, Washington Project on the Arts, Wash., DC 2011 Visions, Voices and Viewpoints of African American Artists, Peltz Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2010 Urban League National Art Expo, Washington, DC Convention Center 2010 Piranha Betty, www.piranbetty.com, Willow Grove, PA 2010 In Memory of Judith Hoffberg, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2010 Mixed Media, Cornerstore Gallery, Washington, DC 2009 Black Exhibit, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC 2009 Anacostia Cherry Blossom Festival, Honfleur Gallery Wash., DC 2009 DCNCA 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Parish Gallery, Washington, DC 2009 Recycle Art Exhibit, Arlington Public Library, Arlington, VA 2008 Remembering Not to Forget, Duke Ellington School for the Arts Gallery, Wash., DC
Reviews and Articles
2023 Amber Robles-Gordon: Surely, she (he-we) is a little animal?, https://artplugged.co.uk 2023 Amber Robles-Gordon continúa con exposición en Washington D.C., El Adoquin Times, Puerto Rico 2023 Who is worthy of car?, Amber Robles-Gordon’s “Surely, she (we/he) is a little animal?, www.awomensthing.com 2021 Following the Paths of U.S. Colonialism, Washington Post, Washington, DC 2021 Amber Robles-Gordon”s Anti-Colonial quilts and personal histories at American University Museum at the Katzen Center, The Philly Artblog 2021 The Liminal Space of Identity for Residents of US Territories, Hyperallergic, New York, NY 2021 Amber Robles-Gordon’s Geographies of Care, Bmore Art, Baltimore, MD 2021 “Successions: Traversing U.S. Colonialism” on Exhibit at American University Museum, US Virgin Islands 2021 From California to Chicago, Tennessee to Maine, 15 of Summer’s Best Museum Exhibitions Remain on View This Fall, Culture Type, New York 2021 La afropuertorriqueña Amber Robles-Gordon en el Katzen Arts Center, American University, USA, Puerto Rico Black Art Blog, San Juan. Puerto Rico 2019 The Nicholson Project, dcist.com, Washington, DC 2019 New Artist Residency in Ward 7, The DC Line, Washington, DC 2018 More or Less, Washington City Paper, Washington, DC 2018 The Fine Art of Introspection and Extrospection, www.supportblackart.com, Miami, FL 2018 Keep A Third Eye Open, Lyric Prince, www.sugarcanemagazine.comkeep-a-third-eye-open-for-amber-robles-gordons-newest-show/, Miami. FL 2018 Freelon & Robles-Gordon, Washington Post, Washington, DC 2017 The Place for What’s New - The Deleware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE 2017 Colorful Survey of Washington artist, Washington Post, Washington, DC 2017 Hybridism: Fusing Gender, Ethnicity, Culture, and Social Constructs, Bmore Art Magazine, Baltimore, MD. 2016 A Mosaic of Voices, Mediums and Black Womanhood, The Avenue, Temple University, PA. 2016 Visual Artists Celebrate For Colored Girls, Huffington Post 2016 DC African-American Artists Challenge Stereotypes at the Phillips Collection, UrbanScrawl.com 2015 How We Lost DC, Washington City Paper, September 2015 2015 How We Lost DC, Washington Post, September 2015 2015 Divinity Revealed, Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, March 2015 2014 An Art Exhibition “for colored girls”, www.hyperallergeric.com/for-colored-girls, December 2014 DC Artists Bring Local Flavor to Prizm Art Fair in Miami, The Washington Examiner, December 2014 Artistas en la Diaspora: La Artista Puertorriquena, Puerto Rico Artnews, December 2014 40 Years of “for colored girls…”, www.ebony.com40-years-of-for-colored-girls-loving-ntozake-shange-fiercely-, 2014 Genius or Gobbledygook? “Real Beauty” at Carrol Square Gallery, Washington City Paper, Wash., DC 2013 Amber Robles-Gordon Impresses at Art Basel, Examiner, Miami, Florida 2013 Washington Post, Subtle Attention Seekers Without Strings, January 2013 Washington Post, Story Behind Delusions of Grandeur 2012 Washington Post, Honoring The Past to Create the Future, Tuban-Mahan Gallery 2011 Washington Post, Options 2011, Washington Projects for the Arts, October 2011 Washington Post, Delusions of Grandeur, Parish Gallery, September 2011 Washington Post, Wild Fabric, Pleasant Plains, July 2010 Pink Line Project, Four Women Five Women, December 2010 Coalicion Artistas De Puerto Rico, Amber Robles-Gordon en Focus Group: Four Walls, Five Women, November 2010 Colalicion Artistas De Puerto Rico, Revista De Artes Plasticas De Puerto Rico, July
Publications
2023 BmoreArt’s Picks, Baltimore, MD 2018 In Miami, a Fair for Artists from African and Diaspora Shine Again, Hyperallergeric, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Visual Artists Celebrate For Colored Girls, Huffington Post 2016 DC African-American Artists Challenge Stereotypes at the Phillips Collection, UrbanScrawl.com 2016 Callaloo, Art & Culture in The African Diaspora, Texas A&M University 2016 Prizm: Art Basel Fair Featuring Artist of Color, Bmore Art Magazine, Baltimore, MD 2015 Local Black Artists Collaborate After Art Basel, Washington City Paper 2014 40 Amazing African American Artists to Watch in 2014, MSNBC, The Grio 2012 Anacostia’s Art Scene, Washington Post, Washington, D.C. 2011 Washington Post, Gentrification Black and White Middle Class Home Buyers in the District, July 2011 2010 Roll Call Around The Hill, Reclaiming These Negative Images, February, PG25 2010 On Line Journal Workshop, George Mason University College, African American Art Alive in the District, 2009 Who’s’ Who in Black America, The Inaugural Edition, Washington, DC, PG 28 2009 DC North, Artists Bring Conventions Center Windows to Life, PG 18 (see pdf here) 2009 The Tapestry Magazine, Migrations, Sixth Annual Midwest Black History Conference, PG.13 2009 Artndeed, The Collector’s Quarterly, Issue#1, PG.2 2008 Capital One Art, Program Catalog, Divine Synergy, PG. 11 2007 East of The River, Represent: East of the River Creatives at Artomatic 2006 Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, A Creative Profile: Artists of the East Bank Catalog, PG.17 2006 The Washington Afro, Arts& Entertainment, Collage As Fine Art, Feb., 3 2005 Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Reclaiming Midwives: Pillars of Community Support, Mothers and Child: Expressions of Love, PG.11 2005 Art For Life, Carnegie Institution of Washington, PG.16
Permanent Collections
David C. Driskell Center Wilson Building Art Collection, Washington, DC Art In Embassies Program, Nigeria Democracy Fund, Washington, DC Department of General Services, Washington, DC Martha’s Table, Washington, DC Judith A. Hoffberg Archive Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Masterpiece Miniature Art Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Capital One Bank, Mc Clean, Virginia District of Columbia’s Art Bank, funded by DC Creates Public Art, Washington, DC Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY The Gautier Family Collection, Washington, DC Zena Hotel Collection of Juanita and Melvin Hardy Ronald W. and Patricia Turner Walters Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. Allstate Insurance Company
Other private collections
Curating Experience
17-18 Curator, Art That Inspires, Art Collection, Martha’s Table, Washington, DC 2011 Curator, Art In Action Silent Auction, Long View Gallery, Washington, DC 2010 Co-Curator, Omnipresence, Mandarin Oriental Gallery, Washington, DC 2010 Exhibit Coordinator, James A. Porter Colloquium 2010 Honorees Exhibit: Elizabeth Catlett, Floyd W. Colman, PhD, and Jeff R. Donaldson 2009 Curator, BADC Black Exhibit, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC 2009 Curator, Exxon Mobil Black History Month Art Exhibit, Fairfax, VA 2008 Curator, Art for Obama Exhibition/Sherman Avenue site, Wash., DC 2008 Curator, Capital One Financial Service, Mc Clean, VA 2007 Member of Design Team, Black Artists of DC booth at Art DC, Wash., DC 2007 Curator, Exxon Mobil Black History Month Art Exhibit, Fairfax, VA 2006 Curator, Convergence Exhibit, P.G. County Community College, Marlboro Gallery 2006 Assistant Curator, Found: Black Artists of DC, Graham Collection, Wash., DC 2006 Assistant Curator, Honoring Nester Hernandez Jr., Swiss Embassy Cuban InterestSection, Wash., D.C. 2005 Assistant Curator, Hidden Treasures: Black Artists of DC, The Graham Collection, Washington, DC
Group Membership / Board & Advisory Members
15 Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL, Board Member 17 International Arts and Artists at Hillyer Advisory Board, Washington, DC 10 Co-Founder, Delusions of Grandeur 10-12 President, Black Artists of DC, 13 Member, Washington Projects for the Arts 2009 Vice President, Black Artists of DC, BADC 2007 Co-Chair, Black Artists of DC By-laws Committee 06-07 Co-Chair, Howard University Graduate Painting Students Committee 06-07 Member, Artomatic, Plastic Arts and Performing Arts Committee 04-09 Member and Curator, DC Black Artists, Washington, DC 04-05 Docent, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
References Available Upon Request