Kirsten Roberts is a contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand artist, based in Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland. Roberts holds a BDes (Hons) 2009 and graduated with Distinction in 2014 with a practice-led MDes from Unitec. Working largely across painting and printmaking, her practice is shaped by an interest in everyday rituals and forms of modern idolatry. Curious about the unseen aspects of consciousness that emerge through process-led making, ideas of belonging and estrangement are explored through subject and painting techniques that act as entry points into experience and may activate alternative ways of understanding.

Roberts was recognized in 2007 as runner up in the Wallace Art Awards, 2008 as winner of the Glaistor Ennor Art Award for the top Auckland Art Graduate and in 2013 awarded supreme winner of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award.

Roberts’ work has been exhibited in New Zealand and the UK and works are held by the Arts House Trust, Deercourt Trust, Vela Family Trust and in private collections both in New Zealand and overseas.

In May 2026, Kirtsen Roberts will exhibit for the first time with Melanie Roger Gallery in "Dark Matter" alongside Simon Attwooll, Harry Culy and Simon Endres.