Hillel Roman creates drawings, paintings, prints, machines and site specific public installations that examine how forms embody promise and ideology. His practice navigates the tensions between the autonomy of art and direct political engagement, between the poetic and the functional, between artistic intuition and scientific discipline.
His projects include the construction of an astronomical observatory, a music-making crypto-currency miner, a political broadcasting station advocating for peace, and the building of a communal two person canoe.
Roman’s works have been exhibited extensively, and can be found in Israel’s most prominent collections. He holds a BA in comparative Literature from Tel Aviv University and an MFA from Goldsmiths College London. He is a senior lecturer at Beit Berl College's Midrasha School of Art. He was a resident artist at the Technion institute of technology, Artport Tel-Aviv, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, basis Frankfurt, and was a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University.