Romeo Alaeff

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Romeo Alaeff

Background information
Birth name Romeo Alaeff
Born November 14, 1970, Brooklyn, NY
Website [1]

Romeo Doron Alaeff was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1970. After initially studying Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics, he received his BA in Photography from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1993 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996. His grandparents on his father's side were of Polish and Lithuanian descent and lived in Danzig, Germany (now Poland) under the name "Auslander". Most of his family on his father's side died in the Holocaust, except for the few that escaped via Holland. His grandparents on his mother's side were from Yemen, from a small Jewish community that emigrated to Palestine in the 1930's. Romeo Alaeff lives and works in New York City.

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[edit] Art

Romeo Alaeff's work varies in execution, but as a whole "explores the experience of inhabiting liminal zones, those architectural spaces, psychological and physical states in which contradictions collide. In these unlikely spaces and fleeting situations, dissonant perspectives, beliefs, emotions, sounds and rhythms briefly coexist. For Alaeff, such unsettling ‘in-between’ states, where synthesis and separation are only infinitesimally differentiated, contain the potential for both terror and beauty. In practices that include documentary, video/ film installation, photography, drawing and music, Alaeff pirouettes on the thin line between fusion and confusion, gently pulling at the seams that hold the fictional fabric of reality in check." (From "Mobilizing Difference" by Nuit Banai)[2]

[edit] Exhibitions

Alaeff's work has exhibited nationally and internationally and has appealed to a wide range of audiences for both artistic as well as historical/cultural interest. His work was exhibited in the 2001 Biennale in Lyon (France), Artist's Space (NY), the Kunsthall (Rotterdam), the Witte de With in conjunction w/ John Baldessari at the International Film Festival (Rotterdam), the National Museum (Madrid), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA, Barcelona), The Dallas Museum of Art and The Foundation Cartier (Paris).

His work has found considerable interest with non-art audiences as well and has been included in the curriculum for Emory University’s, "The Displaced Person, Literature Beyond the Canon," The University of Texas at Austin’s "American Studies: Religion and Society in American Literature" and Georgia State University’s Graduate Educational Psychology Course. In addition, he has been a guest artist, critic and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Pratt Institute, Parsons The New School for Design, The University of Georgia and Georgia State University.

Full Exhibition Listing: [3]

[edit] Children's Television

Alaeff has also worked as a writer, animation/animatic editor & film editor for many successful children's television series. His credits include:

For more specific credits, visit, IMDB [4]

[edit] External Links

  • Romeo Alaeff's Website: [5]
  • Voltz Clarke: [6]
  • New York Arts Magazine, "Mobilizing Difference" (Nuit Banai): [7]
  • Biennale de Lyon Art Contemporain, "A Whole World" (Anne Bertrand): [8]
  • The Dundee Messenger: "Made at DCA": [9]
  • Artists Space: [10], [11]
  • New York Foundation for the Arts: [12], [13], [14]
  • Newman Popiashvili: [15]
  • The Sonic Self: [16]
  • Chi2: [17]
  • Annette Meyer, Bodywrappinc.: [18]
  • The New York Times: [19]
  • IndieWIRE: [20]
  • IMDB: [21]
  • Joculum: [22]
  • The University of Abertay, Scotland: [23]
  • Randnotizen: [24]
  • FInefunds: [25]
  • The Scotsman Newspaper: [26]