About The Artist

Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Roberta Marroquín Doria is a photographer currently living in New York City. During 2010 Roberta, has been working on a photographic project, “Dans le Noir”, which is an extension of her previous body of work, “Underneath Light.” This group of photographs derives from a similar worldview, the two disparate cultures that coexist in my native Mexico: modern Christianity and the still-pervasive ancient Indian beliefs. Roberta arrived in NYC in the summer of 2008 to pursue a One-Year Certificate Program at the International Center of Photography. After she received her degree, in June 2009, she worked on a project, “Underneath Light,” which draws on the indigenous Mexican beliefs in spirits that still commingle with Christianity. In the summer of 2000, she headed to Paris, holding a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Science from Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico. Roberta received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Parsons School of Design in Paris in May of 2005. In her interaction with other cultures, Roberta has been in a constant search to create images that serves as mirrors, that allows her to contemplate the world around her. The resulting photographs, she realizes, are not simple documentary images. They are a reflection of herself. In her vision on the real and the fantastical that coexist in ordinary life, her work falls squarely in the Latin American tradition of “Magical Realism.”