Roei Greenberg (b.1985) is a London based artist, currently studying at the Royal College of Art (MA photography 2018-2020).
He grew up in Kibbutz Yiftach in the north of Israel and later moved to Tel Aviv, where he graduated from Minshar Art College (BA Photography) in 2013.
Greenberg’s work is in constant search for intersections between geography, history and biography. Using large format camera and film, His work invites a forensic reading and create a multi layered photographic perspective; pictorial and luring, yet tinged with underlying ideological tones, inviting a critical reading of the territory he choose to portray.
For many years, his work has dealt with the Israeli space and narrative while taking repetitive journeys along its borders, and confronting his complex emotions toward his “homeland”. Ambiguity runs through his works and sews them together to form a constant dialogue between the mundane and the sublime.
He has been the recipient of many awards, recognitions and nominations, amongst them are The Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Voies Off Awards, The Discovery Award, The Prix Levallois, Critical Mass, Meitar Photography Award, Local Testimony, Magnum Photography Awards, and the Sony World Photography Awards.
Greenberg’s work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions including: Aperture Gallery, NYC; South London Gallery, London; Leeds Art Gallery; The Benaki Museum, Athens and The Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv…
His works are kept in private collections worldwide.
CV
2018 – 2020 MA, Fine Art, Photography, Royal College of Art, London
2009 – 2013 BA, Fine Art, Photography, Minshar, Tel Aviv
Awards:
2019 – Bloomberg New Contemporaries, selected artist, London
2019 – Voies Off Awards, finalist, Arles, France
2018 – Discovery Award, finalist, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
2018 – Prix Levallois, finalist, Galerie L’Escale, Levallois, France
2018 – GrandPrix Fotofestiwal, finalist, Lodz, Poland
2017 - Critical Mass, top 50, Portland, Oregon
2017 - Local Testimony, winner ‘Photographed Story’, Tel Aviv
2017 - Meitar Photography Award, finalist, Photo IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv
2017 - Magnum Photography Awards, finalist, LenscCulture, The Photographers Gallery, London
2014 - Sony World Photography Awards, winner, Landscape, London
Selected exhibitions:
South London Gallery (6 December 2019 - 23 February 2020) - Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
2019 – Leeds Art Gallery, Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2019 – Rencontres de la Photographie, Marrakech
2019 – PhEST International photography Festival, Monopoli, Italy
2019 – WIP, Royal College of Art, London
2019 – ArtRooms, London
2019 – Addis Foto Fest, Addis-Ababa
2018 – The Way We Live Now, Aperture Gallery, NYC
2018 - Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
2018 – “NOF”, Camden Market Pop Up Gallery, London
2018 – Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland
2018 – ONE Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017 – Fresh Paint, Tel Aviv
2017 – Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens
2017 – Location, Location, Location, Ildiko Butler Gallery, NYC
2017 – Photo IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv
2017 – Local Testimony, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Selected Publications (online):
Phest 2019, "See beyond the See"
Harper’s Magazine (November 2018 issue)
Aperture.org/blog, July 2017 - The Way We Live Now Artists
Curious Photo Blog, April 2018 (Pictura Gallery)
Lovecamden.org, May 2018 - Interview prior to the Exhibition "Nof" at Camden Market
Fordham Nesw, Sep 2017 - "Location Location Location"
floatmagazine.us - Along The Break, 2017
Urbanutica.com, May 2017 Interview with Irith Gubi
Lensculture.com - Along The Break (2017)
