Bio
Roberta Mangini Glisson is a California-based visual artist who uses photography and video to help her understand her role in the universe, both through time and space. She explores the lives and identities of women – from mythic goddesses and warriors to modern woman and the institution of marriage. Color, narrative, and a relationship to the natural world drive her imagery, while a search for identity and connection motivates her artistic practice.
Roberta received an honorable mention for the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Professional Category “Women Seen By Women” and was named a 2021 Top 20 Finalist at Focus Photo LA. Her recent photographs and films have been selected for The Big Picture Colorado, Hundred Heroines Film Festival in London, and PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont, and Open Shows in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Pasadena. Roberta studied art at Loyola Marymount University, UCLA and UCSD extension.
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Exhibitions
2024 – 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Honorable Mention, Professional Category: Women Seen by Women, Fotonostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2023 – Hold Up Half the Sky, Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas TX
2022 – Solo Exhibition: Rooted, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA
2022 – The Curated Fridge Summer 2022 Exhibition, Curator: Aline Smithson, Somerville, MA
2022 – Center for Photographic Art Members’ Juried Exhibition (online catalog), Carmel, CA
2022 – Pixel Popcorn, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2021 – Favorite Photograph Exhibition, LENSCRATCH, Los Angeles, CA
2021 – The Curated Fridge Autumn 2021 Exhibition Curator: Crista Dix
2021 – Focus Photo LA Top 20 Finalist, Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
2021 – PhotoPlace Gallery Open Exhibition, Curator: Sandrine Herman-Grisel, Middleton, VT
2021-2023 – The Big Picture: a 2-year public arts exhibition, Month of Photography, Denver, CO, Curator: Mark Sink
2021 – Alternative Processes/Alternative Realities, Pasadena Photography Arts, Pasadena, CA
2021 – Open Show Los Angeles, CA
2020 – Reality Check, Curator: Lisl Ponger, Hundred Heroines Online Film Festival, London, England
2020 – Open Show San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Bibliography
Finding Inspiration Outside of Photography, JPEGmini blog, June 2018
Roberta Glisson: Artist/Business Profile, San Diego Voyager Magazine, November 2019
#SheTakesOver Campaign by Equal Lens, Instagram, 2021
Related Professional Experience
Owner/Photographer at Roberta Nicole Photography photographing weddings, elopements and destinations, 2013-present
Production Assistant for Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 3, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2000
Freelance Graphic Designer 1995-2002
Studio Artist at DDB Worldwide, Los Angeles, CA 1993-1995
Education
BA in Fine Art, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Fine Art Studies UCLA & UCSD Extension
Affiliations & Memberships
American Photographic Artists, San Diego Chapter
Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA