Amber Robles-Gordon
Amber Robles-Gordon is an interdisciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. Her creations are visual representations of her hybridism: a fusion of her gender, ethnicity, cultural, political and social experiences and concerns. The underpinnings of her creations are imbued to reveal racial injustice and the paradoxes within the imbalance of masculine and feminine energies within our society. Known for recontextualizing non-traditional materials, her large scale assemblages, sculptures, collages, installations, and public artwork, in order to emphasize the essentialness of spirituality and temporality within life. Robles-Gordon is driven by the need to construct her own distinctive path, innovate, peel back the layers of injustice and challenge social norms, hence her artwork is unconventional and non-formulaic.
Robles-Gordon is an advocate with over fifteen years of exhibiting her artwork, as an art educator, and coordinating exhibitions. She received a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration in 2005 at Trinity University, and subsequently she completed her Master’s in Fine Arts (Painting) in 2011 from Howard University. Her artwork has been reviewed/featured in national media and art publications. Robles-Gordon, has been awarded artist and artist teaching residencies and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has been commissioned by art museums, galleries, art centers, universities/colleges, radio and television stations to teach workshops, lecture, and create temporary/permanent public art installations for art fairs, agencies, and institutions.
Recent exhibitions, solo presentations; Indiana State University, Terry Haute, Indiana (2024), Surely, She (he/we) is a little animal?, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC (2023), Remnants: a visual journey of memory and renewal, International Arts and Artists at Hillyear, Washington, DC (2023), Sovereignty: acts, forms and measures of protest and resistance, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, Tennessee (2022), Derek Ellery Gallery, New York, NY (2022), August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA (2022), Successions: Traversing US Colonialism, American University Museum (2021), Place of Breath and Birth, Galleria de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2020), Washington College, Chestertown, MD (2018), Third Eye Open, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC (2018), Arts Center/Gallery, Delaware State University, Dover, DE (2017), and The Mosaic Project, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA (2017) ;group exhibitions Butter Art Fair, Indianapolis, IN (2023), Knowhere Art Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, Oaks Bluff, MA (2023), Puerto Rico Negrx, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2023), Untitled Art Fair, Tafeta Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida (2022), Tafeta Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2021), Royal Academy of Art, Summer Exhibition, London, England (2021), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and London Art Week, London, United Kingdom (2020). Robles-Gordon is a participating artist in the following traveling exhibitions: Back and Forth: Keeping Time in Vaivén, University of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2025-2028), Imagining Archipelago, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (2026), Solace and Sisterhood, David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD (2025), Solace and Sisterhood, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, Virginia (2023), and Trenzando Identidades, Saludos cordiales, el Museo Casa Escuté del Municipio Autónomo de Carolina, La Humacao, Puerto Rico (2023).
