Roberta Stoddart was born in Jamaica in 1963. She obtained her undergraduate and post-graduate diplomas in Visual Arts in Australia. She lives and works in Trinidad, W.I.

Roberta’s paintings have been described as brave, dense, bold, thoroughly executed, and deeply felt. Intense and disturbing, they stimulate questions about our collective prejudices, our psychological spaces, and our notions of belonging. 

She has published two books, Seamless Spaces (2000) and The Storyteller (2007), and produced seven solo exhibitions, one of which was Domestic Harmony (1995), Grosvenor Galleries, Jamaica; and most recently in Trinidad being Seamless Spaces (2000), Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7); In The Flesh (2007), National Museum and Art Gallery; Indigo (2014) and The Tear Catcher (2018) at Y Art Gallery. 

She has participated in important local, regional, and international group shows, including The Third Biennial of Painting of the Caribbean and Central America (1996), Dominican Republic; Lips, Sticks and Marks (1998) in Barbados and Trinidad, a groundbreaking Caribbean travelling exhibition comprised of 7 women; Politicas de la Diferencia (2001/2), curated by Kevin Power, Spain and Argentina; A Suitable Distance: Impressions of Trinidad by Five Artists (2006), Trinidad; Three Painters (2008), curated by Susanne Fredricks, Jamaica; and Self Consciousness (2010), curated by Hilton Als and Peter Doig, Werner Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Most recently, she participated in Pressure, Kingston Biennial (2022), curated by David Scott, Jamaica. She is the recipient of the Life of Jamaica Art Scholarship (1991), and a Peoples’ Choice prize (1999) at the XXXeme Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur Mer, France.