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Roberta Fineberg (RF) is a New York-based visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores serendipity, experimentation, and the evolution of ideas through color, material, and process. Working across photography, drawing, installation, video, and abstraction, she investigates themes of impermanence, memory, play, and transformation. Embracing chance as an essential creative force, her work invites viewers to reconsider the relationships between observation, experience, and the physical world.

Exhibitions include Women of Spirit at Zurcher Gallery, New York (2025); Group Show Gallery128, New York (2025); Collecting: An Art Fair at Westbeth Gallery, New York (2024); Sojourner Gallery , New York (2022); Phyllis Harriman Gallery studio exhibitions (2020, 2022); CADAF Online Art Fair (2020); Gallery122, New York (2018); Curate NY (2013); and Photos, Femmes, Féminisme at Paris Photo (2010). RF’s work is also held in public and private collections, including portraits of women writers in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris. In 2022, Roberta Fineberg’s photograph Double Helix was featured in Sotheby’s preview exhibition Contemporary Discoveries in New York.

Recent commissions includes twenty pigment prints of RF’s Roman God(dess) for the Orient Express Hotel in Rome (2025). Her work Union from the butterfly series was selected for Butterfly: Exploring the World of Lepidoptera‍ (Phaidon, 2025), and in 2026 three works from the series were released as curated digital editions on Sedition.

In addition to her studio practice, Fineberg has created interactive public installations and experimental films. Her 2020 smartphone film You Will Never Beat New York, produced during the pandemic, received sixteen awards from independent film festivals worldwide between 2020 and 2025.

Roberta Fineberg began her career in Paris in the 1980s as an editorial photographer and freelance writer. Her photographs have appeared in international publications including Le Monde, Paris Match, Ms., Jeune Afrique, among others while her award-winning fine art images have been used widely for book covers by major publishers. She is also the author of City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship (Howell/Macmillan, 1997), combining photography and text to document the lives of teenage riders at New York City’s historic Claremont Riding Academy.