Hillel Roman (הלל רומן) is a visual artist living and working in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

Biography

Roman was born on April 16, 1975 in

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. At age 24 he joined Hamidrasha Art School,

Beit Berl College Beit Berl College is a multi-disciplinary academic college for higher education located in Beit Berl in the Sharon region of Israel. It is one of the oldest colleges in Israel. The college grants undergraduate degrees (B.Ed and B.Ed.F.A.) and g ...

. In 2004 Roman graduated from

Tel-Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Loc ...

, the Department for Poetics and

Comparative Literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...

( magna cum laude), and in 2007 he received his

Masters of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

from

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. Roman employs a wide range of techniques, from drawing,

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...

, through

sculpting Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

, to building fully functional astronomical observatories. After his graduation from Beit Berl college, he assumed a teaching position there, and in the years 2004-2006 he lectured at

Avni Institute of Art and Design Avni Institute of Art and Design is an Israeli art school located in Tel Aviv. History The Studia school (later Avni Institute) was established in 1936 by a group of Jewish artists. Among the founders was Aharon Avni, who became the school's fir ...

. After having returned from his studies in London, he resumed his position at Beit Berl, and also accepted a teaching role at Thelma Yellin school of Fine Arts. In 2007, Roman received a residency grant at Cite Internationale des Arts,

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. In 2009, he won the Young Artist Prize from the

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, Israel. The judging committee said about him: "Roman's paintings, drawings and etchings, always beautiful and saturated... more than intending to delegate a (renewed) birth of beauty out of the banal, replicated and ordinary, they wish to confront the postmodern spectator with the question 'what is modern painting'..." In an interview with curator Orit Bulgaro in the catalog of Idiolect, an exhibition at the Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009, Roman discussed "...the significance of the concrete versus the metaphorical, the human desire to get through the metaphor and to touch, the vain struggle to bridge the distance between the eye and the hand. Maybe that is the privilege of the painter/sculptor, and the source of his relevance, despite it all. In any case, I try to create objects or paintings that exist in that chasm between the concrete and the metaphorical; perhaps that is my way of trying to avoid filling any role."Idiolect catalog, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009

Solo exhibitions

*2009 Kingdom, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, curator: Orit Bulgaro *2009 Observatory, 2nd Herzliya Biennial, curators: Picnic Magazine *2006 Stronghold, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios *2005 Occasional Goods, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv *2002 Darkling, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

Group Shows

*2009 The rings of Saturn, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv *2009 Flakes, Center for Contemporary Art Tel-Aviv, Curator: Efrat Gal *2009 Hulululu, P8 Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: Rakefet Wiener-Omer *2008 Neues Sehen - Young Art from Israel, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany (catalog) *2008 Ksharim ve'Heksherim (connections and contexts) from the Beno Kalev collection, Tefen Museum of Art (catalog) *2008 Visits to (Some)Where: Recent Art from Israel (& Poland), Galeria BWA Zielona-Gora Poland, Curator: Adi Englman *2007 Reshamim III The Third Jerusalem Drawing Biennial, curator: Dalia Manor (catalog) *2007 Digital Landscapes, Curator: Irit Tal, Tel-Aviv University Gallery (catalog) *2007 Come Thou Beauty, Haifa University gallery, Curator: Ruti Direktor (catalog) *2004 Art for an Alternative Society, Markaz al-Baqaa, Jaffa *2004 Rose c'est la vie – On Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Edna Moshenson (catalog) *2004 A Point of View Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalog) *2003 Young Israeli Art - The Jacques and Eugenie O'Hana Collection, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art (catalog) *2003 Realism and a Diagonal – Eldar Farber and Hillel Roman Guest Artist Gallery, Hamidrasha Art School, Curator: Jacob Mishori *2003 A Stage against the War – Artists against the war in Iraq, Markaz al-Baqaa Jaffa *2003 Group Exhibition, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv *2003 Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Doron Rabina *2002 Imagine - Artists for co-existence, Umm El Fahim Art Gallery *2002 Two plus Two, Pyramid Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Curator: Philip Renzer

References

External links

Artist's websiteDvir Gallery, Artist's pageArtis - Israeli Art
Haifa University Art Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Roman, Hillel 21st-century Israeli artists Jewish artists Israeli painters Israeli sculptors 1975 births Living people Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts alumni