Mark Roberts
Sex / Male
Year of birth / 1970
Website / www.rainioroberts.com
Mark Roberts (1970) is an English visual artist and scriptwriter currently based in Minneapolis. With a BA in Photography from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, and an MA in Film Scriptwriting from the University of Salford, Greater Manchester, Roberts combines video, photography, text, and sound in works which investigate our acknowledged and hidden relationships with the spaces we inhabit.
Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts often collaborate to produce large-scale, multi-channel video installations that deal with social and political issues and their impact on people’s individual experiences and histories. Their art has dealt with issues such as Finnish-Russian border, refugees’ experiences in Finland and the international trafficking of women. Rainio & Roberts have exhibited widely in Finland, Europe and United States including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art 2004 (Helsinki), Finnish Photography Triennial 2006 (Salo Art Museum), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst 2008 (Aachen, Germany), Finnish Cultural Institute in Paris (2008) as well as numerous international festivals.
Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts often collaborate to produce large-scale, multi-channel video installations that deal with social and political issues and their impact on people’s individual experiences and histories. Their art has dealt with issues such as Finnish-Russian border, refugees’ experiences in Finland and the international trafficking of women. Rainio & Roberts have exhibited widely in Finland, Europe and United States including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art 2004 (Helsinki), Finnish Photography Triennial 2006 (Salo Art Museum), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst 2008 (Aachen, Germany), Finnish Cultural Institute in Paris (2008) as well as numerous international festivals.
Filmography
- Some we kept, some we threw back (2010)
- Why do you want to have a child? (2009)
- Eight Rooms (2008)
- Angles of Incidence (2006)
- Borderlands (2003)
