Born 1979 Jerusalem, Israel
Lives and works between Jerusalem and Berlin
Education
1998-2002 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Associations
2009 - formation of IFROSA (International Friends of Roee Suffrin’s Art)
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 - Screen Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 - Through the Mirrors of our Daily Dufour Gallery, Jerusalem
2008 - Elevation Iranian Gallery, Jerusalem
2007 - The Art of Life The New Gallery, Jerusalem
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011 Walter Benjamin’s Phantasmagoria Kaleidoscope Artforum, Berlin
2008 Surface Fractures Artists' House Gallery, Jerusalem
2008 The Bottom Line The Gallery of Daila Saloon, Jerusalem
2008 Sublime Now Hannina Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2008 Mega-style Hakita Exhibition Space, Tel Aviv
2007 Damka Zik Gallery, Jerusalem
2007 Secret Art Mannie House, Tel Aviv
2007 Desert Generation Artists' House Gallery, Jerusalem
2007 Rashomon Gallery at Key College, Be’er Sheva; The New Gallery, Jerusalem
2006 Teddy Bears Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem
2004 Selectives Cinemateque, Jerusalem
2003 He’arat Shulayim 6 David Citadel Museum, Jerusalem
2002 He’arat Shulayim 4 Underground Prisoners' Museum, Jerusalem
2002 Final Exhibition Graduate Program Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Charity Events:
2009 A Way From No Way Opera Gallery, NYC
2008 From Punk to Pink Moty Hason Gallery, NYC
Curator's Work:
2007 Rashomon Key College Art Gallery, Be’er Sheva; The New Gallery, Jerusalem
Books:
Ed. Dufour, Yehoshua; To Speak of Forbidden Mysteries. Forthcoming
Publications:
2010 Timeout Tel Aviv, coverage of Screen solo show
2010 Laleh Shaikani: Spiritual vs. Material World, IFROSA
2009 George Economou: The Work of Art Interacts with the Work of Life, IFROSA
2009 Comments by Jean-Philippe Moinet, IFROSA
2009 Comments by Gérard Huber, IFROSA
2009 Rochelle Owens: Solitary Workwoman, IFROSA
2009 Betina Edelberg: Approaches to Roee Suffrin, IFROSA
2009 Prof. Yehoshua Dufour: Persian Classical Poetry and the Art of Suffrin, IFROSA
2009 Poetica, Web Magazine for Jewish Poetry, Featured Holidays Edition/September
2009 Surface Fractures exhibition catalog
2009 Holidays cover of Makor Liyladim Magazine
2008 Haaretz newspaper, 'Galleria' Culture Appendix
2008 Why to Live with the Art of Suffrin, Modia Magazine for Judaism and Torah
2008 Incompleteness and Self-Development, Modia Magazine for Judaism and Torah
2008 Featured in Vision d’Israel Magazine
2007 Make a New Year a Success through Beauty, Modia Magazine for Judaism and Torah
Grants and Awards:
2009 YRD Foundation - Grant for Outstanding Young Artists
Related Work Experience:
2005 Environmental Design for Jerusalem’s Municipality & Jerusalem Foundation
2004 Art for Hellicon Records Israel
2004 ‘Plynkislanke’ Collaborative Art Project
Our times and societies rely greatly on the power embedded in images. The spectrum of transmission possible through imagery is indeed enormous.
What we “receive” from the images around us I try to use and broaden through my artwork. In this way, known forms of art are referenced. I try to infuse the visuality that we know with a new and multi-faceted message; a multi-layered dispatch, with each single work. I employ the lighter elements of a logographic society to re-create the heavier forms and projections of traditional arts. Archetypal forms and common kinds of imagery are combined and re-interpreted to convey complex, but clear ideas. And not only ideas. On a blind spot in the collision between familiar styles, a new and elusive charm appears. Mobius-ring narratives unfold through the making.
The existence of religiosity in the very heart of the scandalous mechanisms of the everyday is a fascinating reality. I draw from different origins. From East and from West - according to my own sources in Persia and in the palaces of Berlin.
“Roee Suffrin Mini Altneuland”
2003, David Citadel Jerusalem
“Roee Suffrin - Jerusalem: Hard Edges”
“Roee Suffrin Graduate show”
“Roee Suffrin Flemish Persian”
“Roee Suffrin Today's Form of War and Femininity I”
“Roee Suffrin Today's Form of War and Femininity II”
