Jamie Robertson is a visual artist and educator who works in photography and video. Born and raised in Houston, her Texas roots inform her practice; as she investigates the landscape of the American South as a living archive of Black life. Beginning with her own family, Robertson’s work physically and spiritually engages the land as a primary witness to Black resistance, solace, and power.

Through research, Robertson sources archival images from her family albums and official archives, activating the past in the present through the convergence of found and original imagery. This marriage of imagery compounded with the physical land and oral storytelling traditions opposes the hierarchy of “official” archives in favor of equality with the vernacular. In doing so, her work distributes power to the knowledge systems existing outside of traditional ways of knowing.

Robertson has exhibited her work at Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas; Florida A & M University Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida; Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, Texas; and 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her solo exhibitions include Making Reference, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2020); One Hundred More, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas (2022); and the forthcoming Make For High Ground, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, Alabama (2023). She was in FORECAST 2021: SF Camerawork’s Annual Survey Exhibition and Exposure Photography Festival’s International Open Call (2022).

In 2022, she participated in ACRE Residency in Wisconsin. She received the American Art Therapy Association's Pearlie Roberson Award (2014) and Red Bull Arts Microgrant (2020). Her photobook, "Charting the Afriscape of Leon County, Texas," was published in December 2020 with Fifth Wheel Press. She earned an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Houston and an MS in Art Therapy from Florida State University. Robertson currently works as a Lecturer at Sam Houston State University.