Lacey Jane Roberts holds a MFA in Fine Arts and MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts.  She completed a BA in Studio Art and a BA in English from the University of Vermont. Her studio practice primarily consists of large-scale site-specific knitted installations created with children’s toy knitting cranks.  Her installations occasionally include guerilla actions.  Her work has been shown most recently in The Bedford Gallery, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Fresh Meat in the Gallery, Little Tree Gallery, The Headlands Center for the Arts, and Naomi Arin Contemporary Art
    
Lacey Jane also maintains a critical writing practice that bridges craft and queer theory.  Her writing can be found in the forthcoming anthology Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture in Contemporary Art published by Duke University Press.  She currently serves as the co-chair of the Queer Caucus for Art, an affiliate of the College Art Association.

Lacey Jane was the past recipient of the Ian Crawford Memorial Award, The Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize, the Toni Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship, a Murphy Cadogan Fellowship, the Dennis Leon Award, a Craft Research Fund Graduate Grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, and a 2008 Searchlight Artist Award from the American Craft Council.   Additionally she is a 2009 Smack Mellon Hot Pick Artist. Lacey Jane is a 2009 Artist-in-Residence at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and at Leake and Watts, a non-profit in The Bronx. She has a solo project slated for 2010 at Southern Exposure in San Francisco. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she currently resides in Brooklyn, NY

More information can be found at www.laceyjaneroberts.com.