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I’ll be the artist for Studio:Here at the Minnesota State Fair on August 30th, 2024, working 9am-9pm in the Fine Arts Building. Come say hello!
Our Place in the Scheme of Things: Photographs and videos from the Eco.Echo Art Collective will be at Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY from
August 14 - October 9, 2024.
Best in Show: Pets in Contemporary Photography will be at The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas. On view November 23, 2024-April 13, 2025.
Spectral will be exhibited at RACA Gallery in Mankato, MN. Opening reception: October 18th, 2024
Two prints from the series Laboratory were accessioned into the Minnesota Historical Society's Fine Art collection in spring 2024.
Best in Show: Pets in Contemporary Photography at Fotografiska Photography Museum, New York, features nine pieces from Housebroken. On view Sept. 21, 2023-January 2024.
Hyperallergic published a review of Best in Show: Pets in Contemporary Photography at Fotografiska Photography Museum, New York. By Rhea Nayyar, October 12, 2023.
Terrestrial was exhibited at Great River Arts in Little Falls, MN, October-November, 2023, and at the Coyote Gallery in Vermillion, SD from August-September, 2023.
Stock Pile was exhibited at Rosalux Gallery June 3-25, 2023, Reception on June 10th, 7-10pm.
Laboratory series featured in a photo essay in The New Territory magazine. Prairie Lab, Areca Roe, Issue 13, 2023.
Musée Magazine, Woman Crush Wednesday: Stock Pile featured in an interview by Samantha Kern. Jan. 11, 2023.
Symbiotic, solo exhibition at Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Oct. 3- Nov. 4, 2022. Reception is Oct. 17, 7-9pm.
The Overstory: Photographic Works About Forests, Trees, their Wood, and the Memory they Contain, group exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sept. 30-Oct. 28, 2022.
Close Observations, group exhibition curated by Sarah Odens, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Alabama. Zoom artist talks on Sept. 20 at 8pm. Sept. 6-23, 2022.
What on Earth is Happening? Group exhibition at MarkArts Center, Wichita, KS, curated by Bill McBride. May 20 – July 9, 2022.
Inhabitants at SooVAC, Opening Reception April 23. Exhibition runs April 23-May 22, 2022. Also showing, You Are Walking Down Bryant Avenue by Dietrich Sieling.
Stock Pile Book Release event, Dec. 3rd, 2021, 6:30-8:30pm at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. Priscilla Briggs will also be celebrating the zine release for Dollars and Sense. Sheila Dickinson, who wrote the foreword for Stock Pile, will join us for a brief Q&A at 7pm.
Several pieces from Housebroken are featured in The Pet Show at Fotografiska Stockholm, Sweden. The show runs from October 22, 2021-February 13, 2022.
Faux: New work by Melissa Borman and Areca Roe will be exhibited at Rosalux Gallery in September 2021: . Reception on Sept. 3, 7-10pm, show runs Sept. 3-26.
Laboratory exhibited at Silverwood Gallery, St. Anthony, MN, Aug. 12-Sept. 30. Opening reception on Thursday, Sept. 9, 6 - 8 pm.
Terrestrial Ghosts exhibited at 410 Project Gallery, Mankato, MN, April 2-18, 2021.
Drunken Forest exhibited at Waseca Art Center, Waseca, MN, March 11- April 23, 2021.
TITLE Collective (group exhibition) is at Niche Gallery at Century College, White Bear Lake, MN, March 16 - May 7, 2021
TITLE Collective connects artists in Minneapolis + St. Paul who create self-published artist’s books and zines. They are an open-ended community of designers, photographers, visual artists, printmakers, and social practitioners whose work lends itself to the book form and whose publications function as artworks. Follow us on Instagram @title.collective
5 prints from Stock Pile are part of Please Do Not Touch: Art from the Pandemic at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Fall 2020. Watch the Artist Talk with Areca Roe and Kay Healy on the AU Department of Art and Art History facebook page.
Drunken Forest is being shown at MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, MN for the month of October, 2020.
Laboratory portraits are included in the exhibition Art + Science at Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, MN, Jun 27-Aug.8, 2020.
New works are part of Creative Confinement at Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, July 1- December 5, 2020.
Drunken Forest was presented at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis, June 8-30, 2019.
Founder Effect was included in the group exhibition Times End, at Sweetwater Center for the Arts. The show explores futurist views for our society, culture and planet. Jan. 17 - March 9, 2019.
Founder Effect was part of the Art(ists) on the Verge 9 show at Rochester Art Center, October 11, 2018 - Jan. 2 2019. The exhibition was listed as one of the 10 best of the year in Minnesota by Star Tribune.
Images from O Pioneer were included in a show at Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD: Land of Infinite Variety. Sept. 15, 2018 - Feb. 24, 2019.
Housebroken was featured on the National Geographic website: Snakes in the Shower?
Feral Fables: O Pioneer and Family Fremds features new work by Areca Roe and Terrence Payne. Rosalux Gallery, October 7th - October 29th. Opening Reception: Saturday October 7th, 7 to 10 PM.
O Pioneer was featured in Fraction Magazine, Issue 90.
superusted, the 4th Midwest Biennial, is up at UICA in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from Aug. 18-Oct. 23, 2016.
Pattern Recognition was shown at Rosalux Gallery, July 7-July 31, 2016. Roe's work was featured along with photographer Bob Roscoe.
Housebroken was featured on Slate (Behold Photo Blog), on WIRED, and Fast Company Design.
Feature Shoot's group show on zoos includes two images from Habitat.
Areca created an artist book for the Floating Library, a project by Sarah Peters. See her book along with many other wonderful offerings at the Floating Library!