ROM LEVY

My practice connects exhibitions, public art, publishing and artist editions. I launched StreetArtNews in 2009, following artists and new work across cities. The relationships built through that work became the starting point for exhibitions, commissions and collaborations that bring art into different kinds of spaces.

I am interested in how the setting changes our experience of a work: a mural encountered on a daily route, an exhibition built around the character of a temporary space, or an edition made through close dialogue between artist and printer. Curating and production are closely connected in my work, from the first conversation to the finished presentation.

Volery, founded in Dubai in 2020, brings together exhibitions, artist collaborations and V-Residency. RexRomae develops presentations across international and temporary settings. Through SAN Projects, my work extends into public space, from the successive phases of Dubai Street Museum to sculpture, architectural commissions and the Guinness World Record mosaic at Hatta Dam.

Dubai Fine Arts supports the handling, installation and logistics behind exhibitions and collections. The five worlds represent connected parts of the same practice: developing relationships with artists, making new work possible and finding the right setting in which to present it.

My exhibition projects include Borondo’s Animal in London, Between the Lines in Dubai, Printology in Fort Smith and Ikigai in Tokyo. For Urban Nation’s inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 2017, I curated a selection of artists and coordinated their participation, including Invader’s large mosaic installation.

Other projects have explored different ways of engaging an audience. The London Dare turned DALeast’s exhibition into a seven-wall search across the city. Street Chronicles brought an international selection of artists to Seoul. The edition programme developed from an East London garage into a collaboration with a printmaking studio in Turin, connecting artist development with the craft of production.

StreetArtNews Media Group brings together StreetArtNews, Banksy News and BENI HASAN. Their interests span art in public space, the work of Banksy, and the cultural connections between art and sport.

Publishing gives these projects another life: a place for research, interviews and images to reach an audience beyond the original location. Across the practice, the focus remains on artists, the ideas behind their work and the encounters that make those ideas visible.