THE FREE ART SCHOOL

Interviews and mini-documentaries on living as an artist.

Featuring artists across disciplines and career stages.

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BOOKS & EDITIONS

A collection of full bleed detail shots of Robertson’s abstract works made between the years 2009-2023.

Photos of fleeting assemblies of prints in the studio.

30 meter hand glued, leporello book in 1/3 scale of a 100 foot photograph. 2014, made with Antonio De Luca and Bruno Ceschel

CATALOGUES

Problems and Provocations:
Grand Arts 1995-2015
Stacy Switzer, Annie Fischer,  Margaret Silva  
Grand Arts

DIRECT CONTACT: CAMERALESS PHOTOGRAPHY NOW
Lauren Richman
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

The Sky’s the Limit
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

GREATER NEW YORKER 2010
Klaus Biesenbach, Connie Butler, Neville Wakefield
MoMA PS1

What Is a Photograph?
Carol Squiers
ICP/DelMonico

Pictures‍ ‍
Ken Miller
There

Painting Deconstructed
Leeza Meksin
Space Sisters Press

PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS

Human, organic and electronic hybrid sound project. Core members Suny Gao, Michale Reisinger and Mariah Robertson are sometimes joined by guest such as Armando Morales.

NEPENTHAUS
2024-Present

ELTON JOHN
WONDERFUL CRAZY NIGHT, 2016

Cover photo by Juergen Teller, Elton standing in front of Mariah’s work.

A Close Reading of the New Elton John Album Cover, Which Is Perfect in Every Way. VICE 2015

LAME DRIVERS
BECOME AN ISLAND, 2024

Cover image, Mariah Robertson

PRACTICE
“Failure of Imagination” 2021

Official music video for Failure of Imagination from the Practice record Not A Game.

“The photogenic photographer and community-builder Mariah Robertson joins the Selection Committee with a Gen-X-inflected mixtape and some amazing stories.” LISTEN HERE

ARCHIVE & MEDIA

My old life photographing bands for magazines, Devil in the Woods & Puncture, in around San Francisco, more times than I can count at Bottom of the Hill in the 10 minutes between sound check and the band’s dinner. IMAGES HERE

UNFLATTERING SELF PORTRAITS ON HUFF POST UK

An essay about my personal relationship to photography. I think it was meant to be an ongoing blog which began at the time of an exhibition in London. READ HERE

SUMMER IN THE CITY
Spray. I have technically retired from this project but I still make it for myself so if you really need a refill, get in touch and we can work something out.

SUMMER IN THE CITY SPRAY

Transformer Station
Laura Ruth Bidwell interviews
Mariah Robertson 2015

Spotless Films 2014

Difference and Repetition at Van Doren Waxter 2020

Inside the Artist's Studio: Mariah Robertson 2012

DALLAS ART FAIR Meet The Artist: Mariah Robertson 2022

CRYBABY Presents Mariah Robertson 2012

Mariah Robertson Featured at Paris Photo Fair 2017

Valeria Borelli,
super 8 footage of the opening of my show Nudes, Still Lives & Landscapes at Guild & Greyshkul, NY 2007

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A wander along Mariah Robertson's - "88" at the Saatchi Gallery, July 2012