Zoë Robertson

Statement

I’m a multidisciplinary artist who often works with sound and story. My art explores themes of identity, memory, legacy, and agency, often through personal experiences, like my dual-nationality and growing up with two languages. I also reflect on grief and the responsibility of remembering. I work across various mediums like paper, ceramic, and print, blending my background in journalism, creative writing, and audio production to create artworks that weave narrative into material artefacts.

GlogauAIR Project

In this project, I question the firm edges and boundaries of self, exploring the fuzzy in-between spaces of how we self-identify. Defining our identity is the process of a lifetime, and our idea of who we are continues to morph with time. There are countless ways to categorize and interpret, no end of frames to look through. In an exercise that attempts to represent my own self and self-identification, I am re-interpreting the idea of self-portrait through novel perspectives, in a series of a pieces made from different media.

CV Summary

Residency

• 2024 Online Artist-in-Residence at GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany

Curation

• 2023 Helsinki Design Week, Helsinki, Finland – Artefakti inaugural showcase for graduates of the MA Contemporary Design from Aalto University

Selected Exhibitions

• 2023 Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland – glass – hand formed matter (group)
• 2022 The Glass Factory, Boda, Sweden – glass – hand formed matter (group)
• 2022 Bröhan-Museum, Berlin, Germany – glass – hand formed matter (group)
• 2022 Glasshouse, Helsinki, Finland – Wild Garden (group)
• 2022 EKA Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia – The Seaweed Ceremony (group)
• 2022 Väre, Espoo, Finland – Soil Horizons (group)
• 2021 Beta Space, Espoo, Finland – Origins (group)

Grants and awards

• 2023 Production funding for Artefakti exhibition from Aalto University
• 2023 Aboagora Symposium Presenter & Travel Grant
• 2022 Travel Grant from Aalto University
• 2018 Ontario Creates IDM Development Fund Grant
• 2013 Aarhus Short Film Challenge Grand Prize

Articles and Publications

• 2024 “Where the World Meets the Earth.” Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown. Pantheon Press with Desert Island Comics, New York, USA
• 2023 glass – hand formed matter Catalogue, Berlin, Germany

Teaching

• 2023-2024 Guest Lecturer, Department of Design, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
• 2022-2024 Teaching Assistant, Department of Design, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Education

• Ongoing Master of Arts Contemporary Design, Aalto University, Espoo, FI
• 2015 Master of Arts Journalism, Media, and Globalization, Aarhus University & University of Hamburg, Aarhus, DK, and Hamburg, DE
• 2012 Bachelor of Arts English Literature, McGill University, Montreal, CA

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