Bryony Roberts is an artist, designer, and educator. Roberts earned her B.A. in Studio Art and Humanities from Yale University and her Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. Combining methods from art, architecture, and community engagement, Roberts creates immersive environments that transform public spaces and historical sites around the world. Roberts approaches art as a social practice, working with local community groups and advocates to respond to the lived experiences and cultural histories of a place. With projects at international sites such as Lincoln Center in New York, the Federal Plaza in Chicago, the Government Quarter in Oslo, and the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, her practice operates across a range of mediums and scales from performances to site-specific installations. Roberts has been awarded a NYFA / NYSCA Artist Fellowship, the Architectural League Prize, and New Practices New York from AIA New York as well as support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony.
In addition to her artistic practice, Roberts is actively involved in collective advocacy work. Roberts co-founded WIP Collaborative, a New York-based feminist collaborative of independent artists and designers that undertakes design, research, and advocacy projects. She also co-founded the global collective Feminist Spatial Practices, which is building a participatory online platform for artists and designers that work towards intersectional gender equity around the world.
As an educator, Roberts teaches as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Roberts initiates many research and writing projects on themes of social practice and design. She guest-edited the volume Log 48: Expanding Modes of Practice, edited the book Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation published by Lars Müller Publishers, and co-guest-edited Log 31: New Ancients.
