Assistant Professor
Roberto Jamora (he/him) is a Richmond-based artist and educator and an Assistant Professor of 2D Design and Drawing in the Art Foundation Program at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, where he serves as Area Head of Surface Research. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase and a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from VCUarts. His teaching and research encompass studio art, drawing, painting, abstraction, two-dimensional design, and Filipinx/a/o and Asian & Pacific Islander American studies.
Jamora’s studio practice investigates color, memory, and perception through abstraction. His ongoing series An Inventory of Traces mines colors from memories, photographs, interviews, and family artifacts. Through layered gradients and processes of application and concealment, the paintings consider how personal, cultural, and historical experiences leave traces that persist beyond narrative clarity.
His work has been exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Frost Art Museum, Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, 1708 Gallery, SFA Projects, Antenna, and numerous galleries and institutions nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Made in VA Biennial at Virginia MOCA, Mid-Atlantic New Painting Biennial at the University of Mary Washington Galleries, and Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University.
Jamora has been an artist-in-residence at Byrdcliffe, Cow House Studios, Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Jentel Artist Residency, VCCA-France Moulin à Nef, Hambidge Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Joan Mitchell Center, Ragdale Foundation, and Sambalikhaan Foundation. He was the Asian Centennial Distinguished Fine Arts Fellow at William & Mary from 2021–2024. He received VCUarts’ Dean’s Distinguished Award in Service in 2025 and VCU’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2024.
He is represented by Bond Millen Gallery in Richmond. His work is held in collections including the Atlanta Hawks, Capital One, CoStar Group, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Orrick, and State Farm.