David Rohn

BIO

David Rohn grew up in  New Jersey and Long Island, suburbs of NYC  and studied art and urbanism at Colgate University and NYU, and later Architecture at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He worked in NYC in Architecture and Design where he  began painting in the early 1980’s, later returning to Paris in ’89 where he continued to paint and exhibit at Galerie Julien Pellat, Le Salon de Montrouge. La Masse des Beaux Arts, Paris. In 1992 he moved to Miami where he also started writing about art, exhibiting at Bianca Lanza, and later Carol Jazzar Contemporary, developing socially-reflective and interactive installation and performative art  projects, from which his  (self)-Portraiture series’ emerged in 2008. And later, street figures beginning in 2017, after his Miami gallery closed. He has exhibited and been reviewed widely in South Florida over the past 25 years, including virtually all the local / regional museums, alternative spaces and galleries, and publications. He has also exhibited occaisionally in New York, LA and Berlin. More recently his (self) portraiture has morphed into constructions using cast-off / found objects, photography, and painting, intended to reflect contemporary ’throw-away’culture and fatal consumerism. His work has been includes, and widely reviewed at many galleries and museums in S. Florida, New York and L.A.  and continues performative collaborative projects individually,and with Partner Danilo de La Torre, (and other collaborators) under the collab LaboMamo (www.labomamo.com), and his own self-portrait-based, unofficial public art projects.

ARTIST LINKS

Website:    www.davidrohn.net

Instagram: @davidrohn

Gallery:    www.cjazzart.net