Born 1979 Jerusalem, IsraelLives and works between Jerusalem and BerlinEducation1998-2002 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, JerusalemAssociations2009 - formation of IFROSA (International Friends of Roee Suffrin’s Art)Solo Exhibitions:2010 - Screen Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv2009 - Through the Mirrors of our Daily Dufour Gallery, Jerusalem2008 - Elevation Iranian Gallery, Jerusalem2007 - The Art of Life The New Gallery, JerusalemSelected Group Exhibitions:2011 Walter Benjamin’s Phantasmagoria Kaleidoscope Artforum, Berlin2008 Surface Fractures Artists' House Gallery, Jerusalem2008 The Bottom Line The Gallery of Daila Saloon, Jerusalem2008 Sublime Now Hannina Gallery, Jaffa, Israel2008 Mega-style Hakita Exhibition Space, Tel Aviv2007 Damka Zik Gallery, Jerusalem2007 Secret Art Mannie House, Tel Aviv2007 Desert Generation Artists' House Gallery, Jerusalem2007 Rashomon Gallery at Key College, Be’er Sheva; The New Gallery, Jerusalem2006 Teddy Bears Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem2004 Selectives Cinemateque, Jerusalem2003 He’arat Shulayim 6 David Citadel Museum, Jerusalem2002 He’arat Shulayim 4 Underground Prisoners' Museum, Jerusalem2002 Final Exhibition Graduate Program Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, JerusalemCharity Events:2009 A Way From No Way Opera Gallery, NYC2008 From Punk to Pink Moty Hason Gallery, NYCCurator's Work:2007 Rashomon Key College Art Gallery, Be’er Sheva; The New Gallery, JerusalemBooks:Ed. Dufour, Yehoshua; To Speak of Forbidden Mysteries. ForthcomingPublications:2010 Timeout Tel Aviv, coverage of Screen solo show2010 Laleh Shaikani: Spiritual vs. Material World, IFROSA2009 George Economou: The Work of Art Interacts with the Work of Life, IFROSA2009 Comments by Jean-Philippe Moinet, IFROSA2009 Comments by Gérard Huber, IFROSA2009 Rochelle Owens: Solitary Workwoman, IFROSA2009 Betina Edelberg: Approaches to Roee Suffrin, IFROSA2009 Prof. Yehoshua Dufour: Persian Classical Poetry and the Art of Suffrin, IFROSA2009 Poetica, Web Magazine for Jewish Poetry, Featured Holidays Edition/September2009 Surface Fractures exhibition catalog2009 Holidays cover of Makor Liyladim Magazine2008 Haaretz newspaper, 'Galleria' Culture Appendix2008 Why to Live with the Art of Suffrin, Modia Magazine for Judaism and Torah2008 Incompleteness and Self-Development, Modia Magazine for Judaism and Torah2008 Featured in Vision d’Israel Magazine2007 Make a New Year a Success through Beauty, Modia Magazine for Judaism and TorahGrants and Awards:2009 YRD Foundation - Grant for Outstanding Young ArtistsRelated Work Experience:2005 Environmental Design for Jerusalem’s Municipality & Jerusalem Foundation2004 Art for Hellicon Records Israel2004 ‘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”
