ABOUT
Roy Nachum’s experimental paintings, installations, sculptures and designs incorporate elements traditionally used in conceptual and interactive art. Works often include Braille text in relief. One recurring subject is the child with a gold crown covering his eyes (The King, 2010), suggesting man’s blindness caused by displaced values and desire. In his Fire paintings (Fire, 2011), Nachum utilizes Braille text and ash; the works are executed with the participation of people who are blind, leaving fingerprints as documentation of human contact. Whether experimenting with text, round color field paintings, investigating color blindness (S3, 2016) or interactive installations and sculptures (Sea of Crowns, 2017), visual perception has been the artists’ major interest.
Nachum sees his work as an “eye opener”, a vehicle to allow viewers to confront their own existential apprehensions. Nachum starts a painting and leaves the viewer to complete it, believing that human interaction keeps the work alive and breaks the barrier between observer and “sacred object”. Imbued with its own evolution, the work takes form through a series of unstructured experiments. Nachum analyzes the endless possibilities of a material or method to introduce an additional dimension to the work.
Using himself as a conduit Nachum blindfolded himself for 196 hours a period of 7 consecutive days. During this period he focused on painting and poetry. He experienced vivid and intense mental hallucinations and periods of complete and total darkness where he felt detached for the physical world. The hallucinations then became a constant presence. He described the hallucinations as spiritual and transformative. This challenged the artist to offer a way into his work for people who would otherwise never “experience a painting.
Roy Nachum attended The Cooper Union in New York. Nachum’s work is included in many important public and private collections worldwide. He was nominated for 2017’s 59th annual Grammy awards for best recording packaging for the art and art direction of Rihanna’s acclaimed album Anti.
Nachum currently lives in New York and works in New York and Italy.
EXPERIENCE
Studio Tijmen Smeulders / 2014 – Presen
UTSUÀ – Arita Japan, Creative direction & design / 2017 – Present
Aldo Bakker Studio, Freelance designer / 2013 – 2017
Studio Wieki Somers, Freelance designer / 2014 – 2016
Scholten & Baijings, Freelance designer / 2018 – 2019
• Education
Design Academy Eindhoven
Graduated cum laude, December 2013
EXHIBITIONS
2019 – DESIGN MIAMI – Galerie Vivid, FL
2019 – SOLO – Galerie Vivid, NL
2019 – INTERIOR LIFESTYLE TOKYO – UTSUÀ Launch, Tokyo, JP
2019 – 20 YRS – Galerie Vivid, NL
2019 – PRINCESSEHOF – National Ceramic Museum, NL
2019 – DESIGN MIAMI/BASEL – Galerie Vivid, CH
2019 – ROSANNA ORLANDI, UTSUÀ – European Launch, Milan, IT
2019 – ART ROTTERDAM – Galerie Vivid, NL
2018 – DESIGN MIAMI – Galerie Vivid, FL
2018 – TINY OFFICE – Interior for Droomparken, Dutch Design Week, NL
2018 – VAN ABBE MUSEUM – Exhibition design residceny Arita Japan, NL
2018 – ART BERLIN – Galerie Vivid, DE
2017 – WALLPAPER* – Handmade, Signapore Design Week, Singapore, ML
2017 – ARITA: NEW RADICALS, Eindhoven, NL
2017 – LUXAFLEX x DUTCH INVERTUALS, Eindhoven, NL
2017 – DUTCH INVERTUALS – Kazerne, Eindhoven, NL
2017 – DUTCH INVERTUALS – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2017 – MUSEUM ANGEWANDTE KUNST – Sur/face, Frankfurt, DE
2017 – LONDON DESIGN FAIR – Dutch Invertuals, London, UK
2017 – HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT – Designing the surface, Rotterdam, NL
2017 – TOOLS GALERIE – Paris, FR
2017 – WALLPAPER* – Handmade, Milan, IT
2017 – IN RESIDENCE – Diary #10, Milan, IT
2017 – GALERIE VIVID – #NewRotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2016 – DUTCH INVERTUALS – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2016 – DUTCH INVERTUALS COLLECTED – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2016 – SEE•DS GALLERY – London, UK
2016 – TOOLS GALERIE – Domique Fiat, Paris, FR
2016 – FRAME x EYES ON TALENTS – D'Days, Paris, FR
2016 – DUTCH INVERTUALS – Milan, IT
2016 – DESIGN MUSEUM GENT – Design Derby, Gent, BE
2016 – OBJECT – Rotterdam, NL
2015 – OPERAE – Design festival, Torino, IT
2015 – DUTCH INVERTUALS – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2015 – EH&I – Woonbeurs 2015, Amsterdam, NL
2015 – MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS, Paris, FR
2015 – MOUSTACHE – Auction and exhbition, Paris, FR
2015 – DUTCH INVERTUALS – Galerie Joseph during D'Days, Paris, FR
2015 – DUTCH INVERTUALS, Milan, IT
2014/2016 – MUSEO DEL GIOIELLO, Vicenza, IT
2014 – SBK – Design and art fair, Amsterdam, NL
2014 – DESIGN IN FULL COLOR – Curated by Scholten & Baijings, NL
2014 – SENSE NONSENSE – Graduation show, Eindhoven, NL
2014 – DESIGN PARADE 9 – Villa Noailles, Finalist, Hyères, FR
2014 – SELF UNSELF – Design Academy at Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT
2013 – DESIGN ACADEMY – Glass museum Leerdam, Eindhoven, NL
2013 – ETAGE PROJECTS – Group exhibition, Copenhagen, DK
2012 – ARCO ART FAIR – Our work is worth Madrid, ES