Leslie Roberts makes work driven by color, language, and self-devised rules. She received 2024 grants from the Pollock Krasner and Gottlieb Foundations. Residencies include Yaddo, Ucross, Ragdale, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has exhibited in the US and abroad, at galleries including Minus Space, Marlborough Gallery, 57W57Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum in NYC, the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), the Wellin Museum (Clinton, NY), and the Hafnarborg Museum (Iceland). She holds a BA from Yale and an MFA from Queens College. Roberts is also Professor Emerita at Pratt Institute. She lives and works in Brooklyn.