Marta Roberti (Brescia, 1977) lives and works in Rome.
After graduating in Philosophy in Verona, she graduated in Multimedia art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera. Drawing is her main medium and she declines it in installations and animated videos through which she explores the relationship between East and West, studying and reworking the myths and their representation. Her artistic production has always found inspiration in the idea that the ego has no boundaries and that it is not only human.
Her latest solo shows are Dior cruise A/W 2024, curated by Paola Ugolini & Maria Alicata, Musèe Rodin, Paris (2023); Cuando era Ahora ICC Mexico, CDMX (2023) and Cose che non accaddero mai ma che sempre sono, curated by Ilaria Mariotti, Villa Pacchiani, Centro Espositivo, Santa Croce Sull’Arno (2023).
In 2020 she won the Cantica Award, and her work Bestiary of the Other World became part of the collection of the National Institute of Graphic Arts. She participated in international exhibitions and festivals including Ipercorpo : InPresenza, EXATR and at the Forlivese Arena, ART section titled Presentarsi all’appuntamento, curated by Davide Ferri in collaboration with Miral Rivalta (2023); VITA NOVA, A New Life, Alankar Gallery and Gyan Museum, Jaipur, India. Project curated by Myna Mukherjee & Davide Quadrio (2022); Encounter of Imagination. Dialogue between The Divine Comedy and Classic of Mountains and Seas, Pearl art Museum, Shanghai (2021); I say I, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna Roma (2021); Ladder to the moon, Galleria Monitor Roma (2021), Visions in the Making, Italian Institute of Culture of New Delhi, 2020); Wall Eyes, Johannesburg, Capetown (2019) and Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma (2020); Something Else, Biennal Off Cairo (2019), Portrait Portrait, Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2017), Scarabocchio, Kuandu Museum of Art Taipei. She lived in Asia for a few years, where she participated in residencies in China, Taiwan and Vietnam. Through workshops on the technique of Blind Drawing he shows how learning to draw is about learning to see.