2023
Hessel, Katy. "‘Black kids deserve to grow old’: collage legend Deborah Roberts on unjust America," The Guardian, February 6
2022
Szaroleta, Tom. "Multimedia show at Cummer Museum puts spotlight on Black children," The Florida Times-Union, September 25
Scott, Chadd. "‘Deborah Roberts: I’m’ Opens At Cummer Museum of Art And Gardens In Jacksonville For Final Stop Of National Tour," Forbes, September 18
Grant, Colin. "‘The story enraged me’ – US artist Deborah Roberts on her Child Q collage," The Guardian, June 7
Knight, Christopher. "Review: Five pandemic-postponed art shows worth seeing right now," The Los Angeles Times, May 12
Wilbekin, Emil. "This Is Deborah Roberts' America," ESSENCE, April 29
Harren, Natilee. "Reviews: Houston, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Contemporary Arts Museum," Artfourm, pg 162, February
White, Aude. "New York Magazine Special Issue: Ten Years After Trayvon Martin," New York Magazine, January 31
Rathe, Adam. "How And Just Like That... Made Lisa Todd Wexley's Apartment a Shrine to Modern Black Art Charlotte York Goldenblatt, meet Mickalene Thomas," Town and Country, January 6
2021
Robinson, Shantay, "Deborah Roberts’ Investment in Time Pays Off," Black Art In America, September 30
Ghassemitari, Shawn. "Deborah Roberts Collages the Strength and Plight of Young Black Children," HypeArt, 27 September
Valentine, Victoria L., "Best of September: 13 New Museum Exhibitions Feature Artists Ulysses Jenkins, Adam Pendleton, Deborah Roberts, Naudline Pierre, Arthur Jafa, Lorna Simpson & More," Culture Type, Sept 21
Valentine, Victoria L., "5 New Art Gallery Exhibitions to See Now Feature Deborah Roberts, Carla Jay Harris, Jarrell Gibbs, LaKela Brown, and Brittney Leeanne Williams," CultureType, September 10
Bachetepe, Hilal. "Deborah Roberts’ "I’m" Debuts at the Museum of Contemporary Art This Weekend," 303 Magazine, September 8
Gipson, Amarie. "The Museum Now, Part II: Deborah Roberts: Contemporary Austin," Artfourm, September
In Collaboration with Jo Malone London, Frieze Magazine. "Dr. V. Joy Simmons’ Los Angeles is ‘a place of possibility’," Frieze, July 23
Hernandez, Jasmin. "Magic, Joy and Celebration: New Art Examines the Eminence of Blackness," Sotheby's, May 19
Little, Colony. "Deborah Roberts’s Intricate and Thoughtful Depictions of Black Childhood," Hyperallergic, May 3
Bennett, Joshua. "I Will Not Be Taught How To Behave," Art in America, May/June
Ragbir, Lise. "Deborah Roberts Shines a Light on the Mistreatment of Black Girls," Frieze, March 19
Artnet News. "26 Art-World Women Celebrate the Women Who Inspire Them, From Feminist Art Critic Linda Nochlin to Arte Povera Legend Marisa Merz," Artnet, March 8
Friel, Katie. "Dazzling San Antonio art museum adds landmark Texas artist to collection," Culture Map, February 26
Jarrett, Renae. "Where the Black girls are: A review of Deborah Roberts’ ‘I’m’," Sight Lines, February 27
Purcell, Barbara. "Deborah Roberts: I'm," The Brooklyn Rail, February 19
Faires, Robert. "Deborah Roberts: I'm" at the Contemporary Austin," The Austin Chronicle, February 19
Barnes, Michael. "Austin artist Deborah Roberts' Contemporary show 'I'm' concerns the art of being seen," Austin 360, February 9
Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. "The powerful collages of artist Deborah Roberts," Wallpaper, January 25
Florsheim, Lane. "Artist Deborah Roberts—a Favorite of Beyoncé and Barack Obama—Gets Her Due," Wall Street Journal, January 23
Marius, Marley. "In Deborah Roberts’s Art, an Interrogation of What Society Imposes on Black Children," Vogue Magazine, January 21
Brand, Heather. "With Fans Like Barack Obama and Beyoncé, Deborah Roberts Opens a New Exhibition in Her Hometown of Austin," Texas Highways, January 21
Oyeniyi, Doyin. "Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn’t Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now," Texas Monthly, January 14
2020
Crable, Devorah. "Deborah Roberts, The Worst Of Times Are The Best Of Times," Pigment Magazine (print), Fall/Winter
Valentine, Victoria. "‘Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi’ Exhibition Catalog Wins Publication Award," Culture Type, December 15
Roberts, Deborah. "Remembering Juneteenth," Hyperallergic, June 21
Pogrebin, Robin. "With Her First Solo Museum Show Delayed, an Artist Stands Fast," The New York Times, April 12
Cohen, Alina. "Why Some Artists Turn Away Would-Be Buyers," Artsy, March 27
Jones, Lauren. "6 must-see art exhibitions coming soon to Austin museums," CultureMap Austin, February 6
2019
Fullerton, Elizabeth. "Deborah Roberts Renders the Complexity of Black Childhood in Collage," Art in America, October 7
Valentine, Victoria L. "Black Female Artists Are Headlining Exhibitions Throughout London," The Culture Type, July 21
Lee, Erin. "10 art exhibitions to see in July," Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, July 1
Hutton, Belle and Daisy Woodward. "A List of Great Things to Do This July," AnOther, July 1
Epps, Philomena. "Deborah Roberts at Stephen Friedman," Artforum, July 1
Jansen, Charlotte. "The Artist Disrupting Perceptions of Black Youths," Elephant, June 25
Barrie, Lita. "Deborah Roberts Explores The Fragility of Black Masculinity in Native Sons," Riot Material, June 5
Grant, Colin. "Get Up Stand Up Now: Black British art’s response to the Windrush scandal," The Guardian, June 2
Brady, Anna and Margaret Carrigan. "Private view: must - see gallery shows opening this June," The Art Newspaper, May 31
Valentine, Victoria L. "Artist Deborah Roberts Joined Susanne Vielmetter Projects Los Angeles and Has an Exhibition at Gallery’s New Downtown Space," CultureType, April 23
Marcoci, Roxana. "Young Heroines: Deborah Roberts," Mousse Magazine, Spring
2018
Roberts, Deborah. "The Lives They Lived: Linda Brown," New York Times Magazine, December 30
Sheets, Hilarie M. "A Collector Who Grew Up With Art Now Fosters Its Makers," New York Times, December 26
Greenberger, Alex. "Long-Running ‘Anonymous Was a Woman’ Grants Awarded for 2018, With Betty Tompkins and Deborah Roberts Among 10 Winners," ArtNews, December 11
Valentine, Victoria L. "Art Basel Miami Beach 2018: Select Galleries Throughout the Mega Fair are Showing Works By African and African American Artists, Here’s Where to Find Them," The Culture Type, December 6
Williams, Margaret. "People of the Year: Deborah Roberts," Tribeza Artists Curated, November 29
Onyewuwnyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Carla, Issue 13, August.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Art and Cake, June 10
Luke, Ben. "Artist Deborah Roberts on Yinka Shonibare exhibition and why 'black is not a colour any more," Evening Standard, June 6.
Mizota, Sharon. "Roberts' powerful statement of black female identity," LA Times, May 29
Miller, Ashia. "Deborah Roberts’ #EvolutionOfMimi art tackles heavy topic of colorism," RollingOut, May 25.
Amirkhani, Jordan. "Art Review: 'The Evolution of Mimi' at Spelman Museum," BURNAWAY, April 25.
Cochran, Rebecca. "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Art Papers, March 17.
Sargent, Antwaun. "The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood," VICE, March 6
Feaster, Felicia. "The power and pathos of girlhood defines Deborah Roberts’ collages," The Atlantic Journal Contribution, March 6.
Van Proyen, Mark. "Deborah Roberts @ Jenkins Johnson," Square Cylinder, February 19.
Larocca, Amy. "Portfolio: Her Breakthrough Women," The New York Magazine, February 5
Green, Tyler. "Deborah Roberts, Anita Witek," Modern Art Notes Podcast, February
Johns, Myke. "Artist Deborah Roberts ‘Emancipates’ Black Girlhood In Spelman Exhibit," National Public Radio, January 25
2017
Twersky, Carolyn. "New Studio Museum Show," ARTNEWS, August 23.
Marino, Rebecca. "Q+A with Deborah Roberts," Conflict of Interest, July 17
Scott, Andrea K. "March Madness in the Meatpacking District," The New Yorker, April 10
Anspon, Catherine D. "Austin Gets Its Own Art Fair," Papercity Magazine, March 30
Kamm, Rebecca. "You Can’t Deny Us: The Artists Showcasing the Power if Female Athletes," Broadly, March 28
Evans, Dayna. "What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Sports?," The Cut, March 20.
2016
Knudson, Rainey. "Naming and Shaming: Deborah Roberts at Art Palace", Glasstire, November 21
Ryzin, Jeanne Claire van. "Contemporary art exhibit probes African-American identity," Statesmen, September 19
2014
Huete, Betsy. "Deborah Roberts: One and Many," Glasstire, November 29
Ward, Jeff M. "Deborah Roberts: Reconstructing, Reacting and Rethinking at O’Kane Gallery," Fluent Collaborative, issue 79, November 17