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This is the last week to view, Suchitra Mattai, Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing at Roberts Projects. In f...
11/11/2025

This is the last week to view, Suchitra Mattai, Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing at Roberts Projects.

In fables, guineps, and the sweetness of unknowing, Suchitra Mattai shifts from her previous large-scale, installation-driven work to a more intimate practice of collage and painting. Incorporating historic book pages, craft materials, and moral tales, she reconceives the fable as a cross-cultural language, weaving together nature, folklore, and shared human narratives. Her process, equal parts research and intuition, negotiates a dialogue between image and idea, producing work that is at once personal and universally resonant. - Jenna Adrian-Diaz with



Images: morning light, 2025, Worn saris, clay diyas from India, crocheted cord, beaded trim and tassels, 76 x 52 in (193 x 132.1 cm). 1000 faces, 2025, acrylic gouache, appliqués and beaded trim, 33.25 x 25.75 x 2 in (84.5 x 65.4 x 5.1 cm)white noise, 2025, Acrylic gouache, vintage doily, ribbon, appliqués, 19th-century prints, 19th-century book page and embroidery floss, 25.75 x 33.25 x 2 in (65.4 x 84.5 x 5.1 cm)
📸 Paul Salveson

This is the last week to view, Esmaa Mohamoud, What Does Webster’s Say About Soul? at Roberts Projects. Esmaa Mohamoud W...
11/11/2025

This is the last week to view, Esmaa Mohamoud, What Does Webster’s Say About Soul? at Roberts Projects.

Esmaa Mohamoud What Does Webster’s Say About Soul? offers a study in restraint. Her first solo exhibition with Roberts Projects employs negative space and precise spatial composition to explore memory, mourning, and spiritual passage. Drawing on poetry and music, from Gil Scott-Heron to Dorothy Moore, Mohamoud constructs a conversation between material and absence, body and spirit. Each sculpture functions as a distinct memory, its quiet intensity amplified by the surrounding void. - Jenna Adrian Diaz for @ surfacemag



Images: The Souls of Black Folk, 2025, Granite, 8 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (20.3 x 14 x 3.8 cm) 📸 Max Yawney. Installation view, Esmaa Mohamoud, What Does Websters Say About Soul, 📸 Paul Salveson

Now on view at Roberts Projects, Esmaa Mohamoud | What Does Webster’s Say About Soul? This exhibition examines the loss...
10/16/2025

Now on view at Roberts Projects, Esmaa Mohamoud | What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?

This exhibition examines the loss of innocence and childhood among young Black children, as well as the desensitization of Black death in America.

Zion, the model for this work, just turned six at the time this piece was created. Research shows Black children begin to grasp the permanence of death–nearly two years earlier than their White peers. Many of them with experiences of loss and death close to home.

A real pigeon is incorporated into the piece, functioning as both a marker of urban life and a stand-in for the fragility of young Black bodies—an emblem of children lost too soon. The sculpture suggests that perhaps the young boy is perceiving his own death, suspended between life and spirit…

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Image:
Esmaa Mohamoud..NUMB, 2025
Shea butter, beeswax, damar resin and rock pigeon
Photo: Paul Salveson



On view through November 15th

NOW ON VIEWWe are delighted to welcome you to Suchitra Mattai ‘s latest exhibition with Roberts ProjectsOpening Receptio...
09/27/2025

NOW ON VIEW
We are delighted to welcome you to Suchitra Mattai ‘s latest exhibition with Roberts Projects
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27th, 6–8pm

Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing is an exhibition of recent works on paper by Mattai and her second solo presentation with the gallery. The exhibition adopts the literary form of the fable as its organizing structure to consider the enduring resonance of moral tales today.

Suchitra Mattai
Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing
September 27 – November 15, 2025
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27th, 6–8pm

📷 Paul Salveson

NOW ON VIEW Join us this evening for Esmaa Mohamoud, What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?Opening Reception Saturday, Sep...
09/27/2025

NOW ON VIEW
Join us this evening for Esmaa Mohamoud, What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27th, 6–8pm

Featuring a suite of new sculptures that build upon Mohamoud’s rich visual lexicon, this exhibition considers the loss of innocence experienced by Black youth and how these experiences become imprinted on the body, mind, spirit and soul.

Esmaa Mohamoud
What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?
September 27 – November 15, 2025
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27th, 6–8pm

📷 Paul Salveson

Join us tomorrow night at Roberts Projects for the opening reception for Suchitra Mattai - Fables, Guineps and the Sweet...
09/26/2025

Join us tomorrow night at Roberts Projects for the opening reception for Suchitra Mattai - Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing.

Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing highlights the ongoing significance of collage for Suchitra Mattai, with each work presenting a rich layering of ideas, textures and materials which convey the infinite curiosity at the heart of her practice. The form of collage itself and its consistent fragmentation of space into different zones of style and technique reflects the artist’s effort to create a visual language—a new ‘future space’—where the regional traditions of her ancestry can be preserved as they contribute to a contemporary consciousness and moral reckoning.


Image: Suchitra Mattai, a bird’s eye view, 2025, acrylic gouache, appliqué, wallpaper and book pages 📷 Paul Salveson

Join us tomorrow night at Roberts Projects for the opening reception for Esmaa Mohamoud - What Does Webster’s Say About ...
09/26/2025

Join us tomorrow night at Roberts Projects for the opening reception for Esmaa Mohamoud - What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?

What Does Webster’s Say About Soul? features a suite of new sculptures that build upon Esmaa Mohamoud’s rich visual lexicon and considers the loss of innocence experienced by Black youth and how these experiences become imprinted on the body, mind, spirit and soul.

Esmaa Mohamoud - What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?
September 27 – November 15, 2025
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27, 6-8pm

📷 Paul Salveson

Suchitra MattaiFables, Guineps and the Sweetness of UnknowingOpening Reception Saturday, September 27, 6–8pmRoberts Proj...
09/19/2025

Suchitra Mattai
Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27, 6–8pm

Roberts Projects is pleased to present Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing, an exhibition of recent works on paper by Suchitra Mattai () and her second solo presentation with the gallery.

Created with Mattai’s singular approach to collage that blends different traditions of craft and cultural references, the exhibition adopts the literary form of the fable as its organizing structure to consider the enduring resonance of moral tales today.

Image: Suchitra Mattai, eyes closed, sights seen, 2025, acrylic gouache, 19th-century colonial print, page from “Grammar of Ornament” and wedding invitation (artist’s cousin) 📷 Paul Salveson

Esmaa Mohamoud | What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?Opening Reception Saturday, September 27, 6–8pmRoberts Projects is p...
09/19/2025

Esmaa Mohamoud | What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?
Opening Reception Saturday, September 27, 6–8pm

Roberts Projects is pleased to present What Does Webster’s Say About Soul?, an exhibition by Esmaa Mohamoud () and the artist’s first solo presentation with the gallery.

Featuring a suite of new sculptures that build upon Mohamoud’s rich visual lexicon, this exhibition considers the loss of innocence experienced by Black youth and how these experiences become imprinted on the body, mind, spirit and soul.

Image: Esmaa Mohamoud, Got Tired of Runnin’, Runnin’, Runnin’, 2025, shea butter, beeswax, damar resin and charred animal bones 📷 Max Yawney

Roberts Projects is pleased to announce Suchitra Mattai’s () participation in the 36th edition of the São Paulo Biennial...
09/06/2025

Roberts Projects is pleased to announce Suchitra Mattai’s () participation in the 36th edition of the São Paulo Biennial (). Entitled “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice,” the edition takes its cue from Afrobrazilian poet Conceição Evaristo’s enigmatic poem “Da calma e do silêncio” [Of calm and silence].

September 6, 2025 – January 11, 2026

Image: Suchitra Mattai, Siren Song, 2022, vintage saris, fabric and video of the Atlantic Ocean, dimensions variable. 📷 Heather Rasmussen

Now on view at - Amoako Boafo : I Have Been Here Before, July 20 – November 30, 2025 #우양미술관
08/22/2025

Now on view at

- Amoako Boafo : I Have Been Here Before, July 20 – November 30, 2025

#우양미술관

Roberts Projects congratulates Suchitra Mattai () on being a recipient of the 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellowship (). The fel...
08/13/2025

Roberts Projects congratulates Suchitra Mattai () on being a recipient of the 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellowship (). The fellowship is awarded to 15 US-based artists working in the evolving fields of painting and sculpture.

“I’m thrilled to congratulate this year’s Joan Mitchell Fellowship recipients—a group of esteemed creative practitioners whose work represents a broad range of stylistic approaches and themes, reflecting both their material explorations and their varied personal backgrounds,” - Christa Blatchford, Executive Director of Joan Mitchell Foundation


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