AUBREY ROEMER

Aubrey Roemer was born in Rochester, NY. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute and afterwards attended residencies in the USA, Europe, and Asia, as well as exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. She worked as a journalist for Art Observed, specializing in covering the NYC auction season. Roemer received a grant from World Connect and ARTwerk for her work. In 2014, She created Leviathan: The Montauk Portrait Project, a work that involved painting hundreds of residents of the Long Island fishing hamlet on linens foraged from within the community and exhibiting them in flash installations throughout the town. She has received national and international press for her work. Recently, she was a resident at Vermont Studio Center and at 42 Acres in England. Currently Roemer is working on projects in Nicaragua with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDnT epidemic, painting sails of a pinisi ships in Indonesia, and is in the process of creating painted recycled trash sails with Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative program and the South Street Seaport Museum. Her work is on display this fall at Pratt Institute’s Dekalb Gallery and in a solo exhibition in Montauk’s Gallery at the Terrace.