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studio@seanrohr.com


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@sean_rohr

I'm drawn to both what is overlooked and what is overexposed: the people and environments caught between invisibility and spectacle—and the ethical and aesthetic questions that come with representing them. Recently, my practice has developed through long-term engagement with communities at the margins of urban life in Southeast Asia. Through fieldwork and studio practice, my paintings, photography and writing explore how these worlds intersect materially, socially, and imaginatively.

  • 2011–present

    Drawing and painting tutor, University of the Arts London

  • 2015–2022

    Founder & director of Platform Southwark, a non-profit project space, studio and venue in London.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2022

    Come down, Platform Southwark

  • 2018

    OUEST, Platform Southwark

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2025

    The Ever-Shifting Shape, ArtAgenda Singapore

  • 2023

    Crapola, Crunch

  • 2022

    Dream Baby Dream, with Paint Talk

  • 2021

    Be Trans Do Crime, Platform Southwark

  • 2021

    Hung on a minute, Platform Southwark

  • 2019

    The Feeling's Mutual, Rectory Projects

  • 2015

    Piercing the Veil, Simmons and Simmons

  • 2015

    The Wine-dark Sea II, Vermilion Hook

  • 2015

    The Wine-dark Sea, Vermilion Hook

  • 2013

    A pair of teeth, Vermilion Hook

  • 2013

    Oui Madame!, Vermilion Hook

Selected curation

  • 2021

    You Have to Laugh, James Lincoln curated by Paint Talk

  • 2021

    Friendship Circles, Andrew Lumsden

  • 2021

    Round and round and round, Joe Bloom

  • 2020

    Idol Hands: Eliot Fox curated by Hector Campbell

  • 2020

    The Gay Liberation Front at 50, curated by Dan de la Motte

  • 2019

    Full English, curated by DATEAGLE ART

  • 2019

    Lunar Water, Byzantia Harlow

  • 2019

    Altar Pieces, curated by Heath Lowndes and Jake Garfield

  • 2019

    Bloolips and Radical Drag, curated by Dan de la Motte

  • 2018

    Physarum Borax, curated by Ella Fleck and Bryony James

  • 2018

    After Cesaire/Modern Tropiques, curated by Aindrea Emelife

Talks/lectures

  • 2020

    Anatomy lectures, University of the Arts London

  • 2018

    The Monthly Howl with Byzantia Harlow, Soho Radio

  • 2017

    Genre in fashion and art, London College of Fashion

  • 2017

    Subcultures from the 60s to now, London College of Fashion

  • 2016

    Piercing the Veil, in discussion with Jon Sharples, Justin Mortimer & Eleanor Watson