1963 Born in Rehovot, Israel.
1984 Philosophy and Comparative Literature studies, Tel Aviv University.
1989 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York.
1991 MFA, Hunter College, New York.
1997 The Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for the
         Encouragement of Artists in the Fields of Plastic Arts and Design.
2001 The Israeli Education, Culture and Sports Minister’s Award.
2006 Special mention of the international jury, Two Women and a Man,
        Oberhausen film festival.
        The International Gecko Award, Cinematexas film festival.
2008 Special mention of the international jury, The Confessions of
        Roee Rosen, FIDMarseille film festival

Currently teaches art and art history at Ha'Midrasha (Beit Berl College
School of Art) and at Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem.
Holds a dual citizenship, Israeli and American.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
‏2009 The Confessions of Roee Rosen, Center of Contemporary Art,
        Tel Aviv (catalogue)
         Roee Rosen/ Justine Frank, Exta-City, Antwerp
2007 Confessions Coming Soon, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 Ziona and the Twins, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 Justine Frank: A selection, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University,
          North Carolina
2003 Justine Frank: A Retrospective, Herzliya Museum of Art,
          Israel (catalogue)
           Lavie Suite and Other Paintings, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 Two Books: Lucy and A Different Face, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
           Lucy: The Origins, Kibbutz Be'eri Gallery, Israel
1997  Live and Die as Eva Braun, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue).
1996 Professionals, Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv (catalogue).
1994 Martyr Paintings, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan,
          Israel (catalogue).
1992 The Blind Merchant, Bugrashov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1991 Happy Paintings, Hunter Gallery, New York.
1988 School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York.
1986 Sharet Gallery, Givataim, Israel

Filmography
‏‏2008 The Confessions of Roee Rosen, 57 minutes
2007 Confessions Coming Soon, 8’40 minutes
          General Knowledge, Feeling Heart (A version of the first
          monologue from The Confessions of Roee Rosen, edited for the compilation
          Money & Guilt), 11’18 minutes
          I Was Called Kuney-Lemel, 4'15 minutes
2005 Two Women and A Man, Joanna Führer-Ha’sfari on Justine Frank 17 minutes.
2004 The Zionist Ventriloquist, A Compilation of Video Hits, 58 minutes.
2002 Guest editor, Roee Rosen — An Intimate Report, Israel’s
          Channel 2, 55 minutes.
1994 Dr. Cross, A Dialogue; first performed: February, 1994,
          The West End Gate, New York. Video Version: 15 Minutes.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010   Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Canada
           Stop Making Sense, Oslo Kunstforening, Norway (catalogue)
           Video Israel Tate Modern, London
2009 They Told You So, Bitforms gallery, New York City
           Tina B., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (catalogue)
           Fireflies, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
           The Invisible Hand, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
           Degenerate Art, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv        
           Artists at Work, The Left Bank, Tel Aviv
           Sex/Logy, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
           Drama of Identities, Beth HaTefutsoth, Tel Aviv
           Beneath the Surface, the Morel Derfler Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem
           Ambulante International Film Festival, Mexico (catalogue)
           Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile
           Pesaro International Film FestivalItaly
           Festival of Confusion, Beursschouwburg Art Center, Brussels
‏‏2008 Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy (catalogue)
          FIDMarseille Festival, Marseille (catalogue)
          Access II, The Jewish Museum, Frankfurt (catalogue)
          The International competition, The 54th International Short Film Festival
          Oberhausen, Germany (catalogue)
          Demons, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Israel (catalogue)
          The Aesthetics of Terror, Chelsea Museum, New York (catalogue)   
          Eventually We'll Die, Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, 
          Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel (catalogue)
          Dead End, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
          Self Portrait, Cabri Gallery of Israeli Art, Israel
          Strata of Memory, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2007 The 29th International Women Directors Film Festival, créteil,
          France (catalogue)
          Jerusalem Film Festival
          Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
          BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art (catalogue)
          Handiwork, Beit Ha'Gefen, Haifa (catalogue)
          This Is Not Israeli Art, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv
          Desert Generation, Forty Years of Occupation, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem
          The Rear, The First Biennial of Contemporary Art, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
          (catalogue)
          Visual Israeliness, The Dorothea de Rothschild Open University Campus,
          Raanana, Israel (catalogue)
          The Last Painting, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
          From Raffi Lavie’s House, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
          Pornography My Love, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
          Teachers, Ofakim and Ramalla municipal highschools, Israel
          Coerced Choice, Barbur, Jerusalem
          Geld & Guilt, Artneuland, Berlin
2006 Raft of the Medusa, Israeli Art and the Monster of Self Identity,
          Krolikarnia, National Museum of Poland, Warsaw; National Museum,
          Krakow (catalogue)
          Apropos Les Demoiselles, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
          The International competition, The 52nd International Short Film Festival
          Oberhausen, Germany (catalogue)
          Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
          DOK LEIPZIG, 49 Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar
          und Animationsfilm (catalogue)
          Cinematexas 2006 International Short Film Festival, Dallas
          Far and Away, The Fantasy of Japan in Contemporary Israeli Art,
          The Israel Museum (catalogue)
          Tracing Shadows, The Israel Museum
          Men, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel (catalogue)
          The Rafi Lavie Collection, The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
2005 Die Neuen Hebräer, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
           Beauty and the Book, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
           Auto/Biography, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
          1889 (Branau, Austria) – 1945 (Berlin, Germany), Rosenfeld 
          Gallery, Tel Aviv
          Three Cities Against the Wall, Al-Hallaj Gallery, Ramallah;
          ABC No Rio, Voxpop and Sixth Street Community Center, New York City;
          The Artist House, Tel-Aviv (catalogue)
          Blanks, The Center for Contemporary Art, The Rachel and Israel
          Pollak Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
          Halshanot, Ha’Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 One Pink Rose, Organic Art in a Digital Era, an exhibition held
          at the prison cells of “refusers,” Miltiary Jail number 6, Israel
          Fallout, Ha’Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
          Sharon, Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
          Hot Days, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
          Videozone 2 International Festival, Israel (catalogue)
          Homage To Hanoch Levin, Haifa Museum of Art (catalogue)
          No New People, Time For Art, Tel Aviv
2003 The Promise, The Land, The O.K. Center of Contemporary Art,
          Linz, Austria (catalogue)
          Wonderyears—New Reflections on Nazism and the Shoa in Israel,
          Kunstraum Kreuzberg/NGBK, Berlin (catalogue)
          The Claim of Images, Jewish Perspectives in Modern Art,
          Museum Bochum, Germany (catalogue)
          Chopsticks, Ha’Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
          There Are Flowers, ‘Kav 16’ Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/ Recent Art, The Jewish Museum,
          New York (catalogue)
          (Artist and co-curator) Imagine, Artists For Co-Existence,
          Um-El-Fachem Art Gallery, Um-El-Fachem and Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
          Side-Effect, Ha’Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001-2003 Il Dono - The Gift, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena; Candiani
          Cultural Center, Venice; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
          Arizona; Bronx Museum, New York; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
          Northwestern University, Illinois, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 
         Ontario (catalogue)
2001 I Slept With Ari Libsker, The Free Academy Art Pavilion, Tel Aviv
         (Artist and co-curator) The Thirty Third Year: Artists Against Israel's
         'Strong Hand' Policy, Beit Ha'Am Gallery, Tel Aviv
         Self Portrait, Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000-2001 The Angel of History, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel (video catalogue)
2000 The Republics of Art: Israel, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena (catalogue)
         Arieh Aroch: Erections in Israeli Art, Ha'Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 (Artist and co-curator) Regarding Raffi, Ha'Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998-9 Good Kids, Bad Kids, 'Childliness' in Israeli Art, The Israel Museum,    Jerusalem (catalogue)
1998 Forbidden, Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
          Recommended Retail Price, The Pyramid, Haifa
1997 Imprisoned Without a Trial, Beit-Ha'Am, Tel Aviv
          Ha'Midrasha, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel (catalogue)
           I/zkor, Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1995 Shades of Sexuality, The Artists' House, Jerusalem (catalogue)
1994 Anxiety, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel (catalogue)
           Petty Schemes & Grand Designs, 319 Grand, New York
1990 Markings, curated by Yony Koenig, New York.
          Re-Configuring Bodies, Hunter Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1987 NYU, Annual Small Work Exhibition, New York
1985 Sir-Lahatz, The Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem (catalogue)
          Shfayim 85. Israel (catalogue)

BOOKS, ARTIST'S BOOKS and SPECIAL PROJECTS
Sweet Sweat – Justine Frank (Tel Aviv, Babel Publishing House, 2001)
Ha’Aretz Haram Al-Sharif (political work in Xerox for The Thirty
Third Year exhibition; 40 copies, 2001); abridged version reprinted in:
Plastica Journal, number 4 [Tel Aviv, 2002], pp. 82-90.
A Different Face (a children book), (Or-Yehuda, Israel,
Hed Artzi Press, 2000)
Live and Die as Eva Braun, an Illustrated Proposal for a
Virtual Reality Scenario, Not to Be Realized, Bilingual
edition in Hebrew and English (Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 1997)
Live and Die as Eva Braun, an Illustrated Proposal for a
Virtual Reality Scenario, Not to Be Realized, Bilingual
edition in Italian and English, translated to Italian
by Martino Marazzi (Siena, Palazzo Delle Papesse, 2000)
Lucy (Text in English, 68 pp., 33 Drawings, 81/2" X 11";
Archival Edition: 20 Copies), 1991-1992
Lucy, Hebrew edition, translated from English by the author
(Tel Aviv, Shadorian Press, 2000)
The Blind Merchant (Original Text, and the Complete Text of
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," 145 Drawings, 81/2" X 11";
Archival Edition: 7 Copies), 1989-1991
The Education of A Marginal Saint (Xerox edition), 1988

SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITINGS IN ENGLISH
(For published writings in Hebrew, refer to the Hebrew résumé).

2009
The Confessions of Roee Rosen (Tel Aviv, CCA, 2009)
The Law is Laughing: Fragments Following the War in Gaza http://branding-democracy.org/?q=node/199
2008
"Roee Rosen – Confessions: A Conversation with Avi Pitchon," Manifesta7 Companion (Silvana Editoriale), pp. 220-224
2006
An excerpt from the novel “Ziona™,” translated by Anthony Berris,
Modern Hebrew Literature, Number 3 (London, the Toby Press), pp. 103-107
‏2005
“Terrible, Dangerous New Hebrews, on Zoya Cherkassky and Igal Zak,
” Zoya vs Igal (exhibition brochure, GDK, Berlin)
2004
“The Zionist Ventriloquist,” VideoZone 2 (the Center for Contemporary
Art, Tel Aviv), pp.67-73 
2001  
“On Justine Frank,” [English and Italian] in: Antonio Somaini,
editor, The Gift, Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
(Milan, Charta), pp. 436-437.
"Scatology and Other Uncanny Delights, Getting Dirty with Mike Kelley
[first published in 1994]," translated by Oran Moked, in: Video One:
Body-Screen-Digitalia (Exhibition Catalogue, Haifa Museum of Art), pp. 112-132.
"The Secret of Bureaucratic Beauty," Jonathan Gould: Ideal Types
(Exhibition catalogue, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv).
Tamar Getter, Aim Deuelle Luski and Roee Rosen, "The Thirty-Third Year,
Artists Against Israel's 'Strong Hand' Policy–Curator's Statement,"
(published bilingually in Studio Art Magazine, number 121,
and distributed through gallery venues and the web)
1998 
"The Visibility and Invisibility of Trauma: on Traces of the Holocaust
in the Work of Moshe Gershuni and in Israeli Art," Jerusalem Review,
number 2 (Tel Aviv, Ah'shav), pp. 98-118.
"Quality Time, On Maggie Cardelús' Taglio, L'Origine du Monde (II),"
in: Maggie Cardelús, Matrix  (Almagro, Galer'a Fúcares)
1996 
"Beyond Idomania," Ido Bar-El: Construction Works
(Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel).
"Less and More Than Two," Ariela Shavid: Beauty is a Promise of
Happiness (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem).  
1992 
Art, Money, Identity, Fragments From Contemporary American Art,
The Tel Aviv Museum Press, 1992, 40 pp., Illustrated.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (excluding texts in Hebrew)
Books and Essays
Naomi Aviv, The Raft of Medusa, Israeli Art and the Monster
of Self-Identity, translated by Michal Sapir (Warsaw,
Krolikarnia, 2006)
Ariella Azoulay, Death's Showcase, The Power of Image in Contemporary
Democracy, translated by Ruvik Danielli (Cambridge, MA,
The MIT Press, 2001).
———, “The Return Of the Repressed” / “Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten,”
in: Tsafrir Cohen, Avi Pitchon and Mirjam Wenzel, editors, Wonderyears,
New Reflections on the Shoah and Nazism in Israel
(Berlin, NGBK, 2003), pp. 59-75.
Tsafrir Cohen and Mirjam Wenzel, “On the Dangers of Monumentalization
and the Attempt of an Intimate Examination” / “Von den Gefahren der
Monumentalisierung und dem Versuch einer intimen Auseinandersetzung,”
in: Cohen, Pitchon and Wenzel, editors, Wonderyears, pp. 9-21.
Roberto M. Dainotto, "A portrait of the Artist as a Young Martyr,"
in: Roee Rosen, Martyr Paintings,  (Exhibition catalogue,
Ramat-Gan Museum, 1994).
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, “Acts of Impersonation: Barbaric Spaces as Theater,”
in: Kleeblatt, editor, Mirroring Evil, pp. 17-38
Edna Goldstaub-Dainotto, "Roee Rosen's Martyrs: Wicked Hagiographies,"
in: Roee Rosen, Martyr Paintings,  (Exhibition catalogue,
Ramat-Gan Museum, 1994).
Shelley Hornstein et al, editors, Impossible Images: Contemporary
Art After the Holocaust (New York, New York University Press, 2004)
Norman L. Kleeblatt, “Male Fantasies of Hitler: Confusing Gender
and Identity; Roee Rosen’s Live and Die as Eva Braun,” in: Kleeblatt,
editor: Mirroring Evil, Nazi Imagery/ Recent Art (New York,
The Jewish Museum and Rutgers University Press, 2001), pp. 101-104.
Mira Lapidot, Far and Away, The Fantasy of Japan in Contemporary Israeli
Art (The Israel Museum, exhibition catalogue, 2006).
Edward Lucie-Smith, Movements in Art Since 1945, New Edition
(New York and London, Thames & Hudson, 2001), pp. 268-269.
Edward Lucie-Smith, Art Tomorrow (Paris, Editions Pierre
Terrail, 2002), pp. 99-101.
Dalia Manor, "From Rejection to Recognition, Israeli Art and the Holocaust,"
Israel Affairs, volume 4, numbers 3 & 4 (London, Frank Cass Journals, 1998),
pp. 253-277.
Essay reprinted in: Stephen E. Feinstein, editor, Absence / Presence,
Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust (Syracuse,
Syracuse University Press), pp. 194-218.
Alec Mishory, Visual Israeliness (2007, Raanana, Israel,
The Open University)
Maaria Oikarinen, “Holokaustin Hahmoja,” Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
(Finland, February 2004), pp. 177-190.
Jeanne Pearlman, “The Jewish Museum, Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/
Recent Art,” in: Pam Korza and Barbara Schaffer Bacon, editors,
Museums and Civic Dialogue, Case Studies from Animating Democracy
(Washington DC, Americans for the Arts, 2005), pp. 21-50.
Gene Ray, “The Trauerspiel in the age of its Global Reproducibility:
Boaz Arad's Hitler Videos,” Afterimage, September-October 2003
Roger Rothman, "Mourning and Mania, Roee Rosen's Live and Die as Eva Braun,"
in: Roee Rosen, Live and Die as Eva Braun (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1997).
Sarit Shapira, "The Suppressed Syndrome: Holocaust Imagery as a Taboo in
Israeli Art," The Israel Museum Journal Volume XVI, summer
1998, pp. 35-46.
Joshua Simon, “Vivre sa vie, Thoughts About Justine Frank Upon the
Retrospective at the Herzliya Museum of Art,” Studio Art Magazine,
number 140, February 2003 [English abstract of an essay in Hebrew],
pp. 95-96.  
Antonio Somaini, "Roee Rosen," in: Art and Artists From Israel and
Palestine [English and Italian] (Siena, Palazzo Delle Papesse, 2000),
pp. 116 and 162-163. 
Ellen Handler Spitz, “Childhood, Art and Evil,” in: Kleeblatt, editor,
Mirroring Evil, pp. 39-52.
Ilana Tenenbaum et. al., Anxiety (exhibition catalogue,
Ramat Gan, 1994).
Ernst Van Alphen, “Toys and Affect: Identifying with the Perpetrator
in Contemporary Holocaust Art,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Art, volume 2, number 2, 2001 and volume 3, number 1, 2002, pp. 159-190.
Ernst Van Alphen, Art in Mind, How Contemporary Images Shape Thought
(Chicago & London, the University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Moshe Zuckermann, Roee Rosen, “Das Bewußtsein von den Abgründen
des Nichts – Gespräch über das Verhältnis von Kunst und Geschichte,”
in: Moshe Zuckermann, editor, Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche
Geschichte XXXIV (2006), Geschichte und bildende Kunst
(GöWallstein verlag, 2006), pp. 15-36

Articles and Reviews (by date)
Larry Derfner, "The Holocaust According to Eva Braun," The Jerusalem Post,
November 14, 1997, p. 16.
Inge Günther, "Anschließend in die Holle," Berliner Zeitung,
November 26, 1997.
Unsigned, "Nuzzling With The No. 1 Nazi," Newsweek,
December 8, 1997, p. 6.
David B. Green, "Shock Treatment," The Jerusalem Report,
Volume VIII, no. 16, December 11, 1997, pp. 42-43.
Meir Ronnen, "Eva Braun Artwork Causes Outcry," ARTnews,
volume 92, number 1 (New York, January 1998), p. 68.
Dana Gilerman, “I Didn’t Know Her Well,” Ha’aretz English Edition,
September 27, 2000.
Deborah Sontag, "Tel Aviv Journal: New Conflict Begets Culture War by
Israeli Artists," The New York Times, January 15, 2001
Michael Kimmelman, “Evil, the Nazis and Shock Value,”
The New York Times, March 15, 2002, pp. E33, E35
Leslie Camhi, “Peering Under the Skin of Monsters,”
The New York Times, Arts and Leisure section, March 17, 2002, pp. 36, 39.
Daphne Merkin, “Forget ‘Is It Good For the Jews.’ Is ‘Nazi’ Exhibit
Good For Art?” Forward, March 22, 2002
Blackhawk, “Mirror, Crack; Fade to Black…” http://bbs.thing.net,
March 22, 2002
Elisabeth Franck, “Urine Trouble,” The New York Observer,
March 25, 2002, p. 1
Roy Edroso, “The Banality of ‘Evil’,” Alicubi Journal, New York,
April 2002
Linda Nochlin, “On Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery, Recent Art,”
Artforum, summer 2002, pp. 167-168, 207.

Smadar Sheffi, “The Invented Jew,” Haaretz Guide English Edition,
February 7, 2003, p. 17.

Gil Goldfine, “Vases of Tragedy,” The Jerusalem Post, February 14,
2003, p. B14.
Claus Philipp, “Landvermesser und andere Akteure,” Der Standard, March 7,
2003, p. 25
Tsafrir Cohen, “Andere Wege zur Shoah. Gespräch mit dem israelischen
Künstler Roee Rosen,” Kommune, Forum für Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur,
4/03, Berlin, August-September 2003, pp. 77-80
Dana Arieli-Horowitz, “On ‘Mirroring Evil’,” Studies in Contemporary
Jewry, vol. 19 (New York, Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 290-293

Gil Goldfine, “Picture Imperfect,” The Jerusalem Post, November 25th,
2005, p. 36
Cécile Brisson, [English and French], "1re Biennale d'art contemporain,
Herzliya," Art Press 341, January 2008, pp. 73-74
Laura Kern, "Stalags, Eyeing Pornography that Uses the Holocaust as
Titillation," New York Times, Wednesday, April 9, 2008: (The Arts, page E6)

J. Hoberman, "Horniness Meets Horror in Stalags," Village Voice, Wednesday,
April 9, 2008: Reviewed by J. Hoberman (Film, page 90)

David Fear,"Stalags review," Time Out New York, April 10-16, 2008:
(Film, page 99, issue 654)