Martryce Roach

Raised in New Brunswick, Martryce Roach is a self-taught artist with a bachelor’s degree in public health and Africana Studies and a master’s degree in social work. In 2021, she was named Curator’s Choice by Pro Arts in Jersey City.  In 2022, she was awarded the Mid Atlantic Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Grant through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Also in 2022, Roach was commissioned by the Meyerhoff Alumni Association to visually capture the life story of University of Maryland Baltimore County former President, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski.  In 2023, Roach completed an artist residency with ArtCrawl Harlem on Governor’s Island, NY. Her pastel drawing,”Facing the Future Together,’’ was licensed by Newark Liberty International Airport, where a massive, mural-sized image of it was displayed digitally in Terminal A from 2022 through 2023. Last year, Roach was the Public Art and Community Engagement Mural Ambassador for a 240-foot mural installed at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.  Several of Roach’s works, including oil paintings and pastel on paper, have been acquired into permanent museum collection.

Roach’s style is marked by her mix of history, musical references and geometric shapes to construct surrealistic stories about human experiences and relationships.