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.

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 Gallery.

Roberta 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), Soft Box Studios, Trinidad; Three Painters (2008), curated by Susanne Fredricks in Jamaica; and Self Consciousness (2010), curated by Hilton Als and Peter Doig, Werner Gallery, Berlin, Germany, and The Shadow Show (2023), curated by Ashraph in Trinidad. She participated in the Small Axe Caribbean Modernism II Symposium (2024) in Puerto Rico, organized by David Scott and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.

She is the recipient of the Life of Jamaica Art Scholarship (1991), and a Peoples’ Choice prize (1999) at the XXX eme Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur Mer, France.