Art Curation
COLLABORATING with artists, COLLECTORS, GALLERIES, AND INNOVATIVE BRANDS TO CULTIVATE CULTURAL CAPITAL
IMPULSE, Chashama Foundation (2023)
The KNOW and Odisseia are pleased to announce the opening of IMPULSE, an immersive, multimedia exhibition delving into personal identity, consumption, narcissism and desire in the digital age.
Co-curated by Thais Domingues (Founder, Odisseia), Natasha Roberts (Founder, The KNOW), and Arthur Jorge Lima, IMPULSE brings together an international group of multidisciplinary artists Alê Jordão, CHiNGLiSH WANG, Dee Lazzerini, John Grande, and Kristin Simmons. Divided into three distinct themes, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the profound impact of the virtual age, and the complexities of consumption, to uncover the compulsions that drive our choices and manifestations of desire.
Curatorial Tours will be hosted on December 14th and December 20th at 6p ET (RSVP-only closing reception at the Ace Hotel to follow final tour). Visit the exhibition at 227 West 29th Street in New York City from November 29th to December 22nd.
IMPULSE events and tours are sponsored by Chashama Foundation, the Ace Hotel and ROCKAWAY, a better-for-you beverage brand supporting individual health and environmental conservation.
Access the Virtual Tour of IMPULSE and learn more about the artists.
Liquidity, Ki Smith Gallery (2023)
In Ki Smith Gallery's inaugural open-call exhibition, curator Natasha Roberts presents Liquidity, a captivating group show that delves into the multifaceted concept of fluidity across economic, emotional, and physical dimensions. The exhibition brings together the works of 23 international artists, each contributing to a comprehensive exploration of fluidity through a diverse range of articulations, spanning subject matter, material composition, and underlying meaning.
Drawing from art sociological theory, Liquidity engages with the very concept as described by renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Bauman's theory of liquid modernity (Bauman, 2000) posits that contemporary society is characterized by a state of constant change and fluidity, where institutions, relationships, and identities are increasingly transient and unstable. By applying this theory to the curation of the exhibition, Roberts encourages the audience to reflect on how the artworks exemplify and challenge the fluidity of the modern world.
Featured artists include Faustine Badrichani, Edgard Barbosa, Caitlin Carney, Yvette Cohen, Brandon Clarke, Jen Dwyer, Michael Ezzell, Bryan Fernandez, Anne von Freyburg, George Goodnow, Brittany Holloway-Brown, Alison Kruvant, Jared leClaire, Tara Lewis, Lydia Nobles, Yuval Pudik, Dena Sturm, Patricio Tejedo, CHiNGLiSH WANG, Cyle Warner, Alida Wilkinson, Ted Wray, and Peter Zelle.
Exhibition on view 8/12-9/3 at Ki Smith Gallery (170 Forsyth Street). ‘Last Look’ Curatorial Tour will be hosted on Friday, September 1st at 6p ET.
Access the Virtual Tour of Liquidity.
Read more at Whitehot Magazine.
Central Park Tower, penthouse (2022-2024)
a two-part group exhibition inside the penthouse atop the world’s tallest residential development, curated by Natasha Roberts for Serhant. and Classiques Modernes:
Central Park Tower: Horizons featuring Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Bridgette Duran, Federico Solmi, Kamiesha Garbadawala, Lindsey Brittain, Vicky Barranguet, and Verdiana Patacchini (Winter 2022-Spring 2023)
Central Park Tower: Above All featuring Bridgette Duran, Corey Escoto, Dylan Reitz-Cruz courtesy of Ki Smith Gallery, Jamel Robinson, Kamiesha Garbadawala, Minku Kim, Sophie-Alexia Joly de Lotbinière courtesy of SPACE Gallery St. Barth, Vicky Barranguet, and Verdiana Patacchini (Summer 2023-Winter 2024)
Read more at FAD Magazine, Artsy, ArteFuse, and Create! Magazine.
Tour the penthouse with Million Dollar Listing’s Ryan Serhant.
To inquire about Collector Tours and events, email NR@NatashaRoberts.me.
SupaVenezia, A Plus A Gallery (2022)
a group exhibition co-curated with Sarah Staton at A Plus A Gallery in Venice, Italy, to benefit We Are Here Venice.
This city-specific iteration of Staton’s critically-acclaimed exhibition series, SupaStore, promises an exciting and fresh perspective on the practices of art consumption. As both a curatorial project and an artwork in its own right, SupaStore explores the practice of shopping as a social, communal, political, and economic activity while holding a mirror to the neo-capitalist mechanisms of today’s art market. Via the lens of consumer culture, SupaVenezia provides new approaches to analyzing the evolution of an ancient city through the dynamics of commerce and marketing.
By reading the city of Venice as a brand which operates within the larger system of global capitalism, SupaVenezia explores what the city has to offer, for whom, and for what purposes. The exhibition aims to examine how history, tradition, culture, and art transform into raw materials for the brand to process, package, and present in order to achieve its market objectives.
SupaVenezia features AGOSTINO, Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, Francesca Anfossi, Taylor Carruthers, Nina Ceranic, Giorgia Agnese Cereda, Guendalina Cerutti, CHiNGLiSH WANG, Kate Davis and David Moore, Hannah Doucet, Saule Dyussembina, Julia Frank, Zuza Golinska, Phillipa Horan, Steph Huang, Melanie Jackson, Hetty Laycock, Jin Joo Lee, Jaspar Joseph Lester, Cosima Montavoci, Mila Morelli, Flore Mycek, Laura O Neill, Iryna Ozarynska, Minjoon Park, Cullinan Richards, Filippo Rizzonelli, Henrique Schmeil, Ioana Maria Sisea, Francesco Snote, Saule Suleimenova, Sunset Yogurt, Patricio Tejedo, Jake Tilson, Fabiano Vicentini, Klaus Weber, Maria Xilo, and Camille Yvert.
The project is exhibited with support from the Royal College of Art, and in partnership with the Official Venice Glass Week 2022.
Read more in Elle Italia. Learn more and support We Are Here Venice.
Artsy presents Impact: Project Healthy Minds (2022)
a group auction in partnership with Project Healthy Minds, conceptualized by Natasha Roberts and co-curated with Claudia Cheng, Hall W. Rockefeller, Marine Tanguy, Susanna W. Gold, Storm Ascher, Mollie Barnes, Aindrea Emelife, and Samantha Coven Ehrlich
From textiles to abstract canvases to figurative paintings, the digital auction spotlights 43 exemplary works by a group of emerging and critically acclaimed artists, including Lucia Hierro, Hank Willis Thomas, Marc Dennis, Bea Bonafini, and more.
VOICES, Studio 525 New York (2020)
a group exhibition curated by Anwarii Musa, artist talks hosted by Natasha Roberts, in support of ArtStart and Black Artist Fund
featuring works by renowned artists Amani Lewis, Collin Sekajugo, Delphine Diallo, Derrick Adams, Devin Allen, Dominic Chambers, Esteban Whiteside, Jeffrey Meris, Kevin Brisco, Latoya Hobbs, Mark Clennon, Nate Lewis, Phyllis Stephens, Shaunte Gates, Steve Sweatpants, and Yoyo Lander
and panel speakers pictured above, Natasha Becker (DeYoung Museum, Assembly Room Gallery), Jenée-Daria Strand (Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Museum), Ché Morales (The Online Gallery), Ms. Z (artist), and Jeffrey Meris (artist)
Read more at Artsy, V Magazine, CultBytes, Juxtapoz.
Culture Canvas at saks fifth avenue (2019 - 2020)
an in-store exhibition and speaker panel curated by Natasha Roberts featuring KAVI (visual artist), Kendall Reynolds (Founder, Kendall Miles Designs), and Dennita Sewell (Phoenix Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art).