Aubrey Roemer is a visual artist and academic whose work focuses on the intersection of art and archaeology. Currently, Roemer is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee, studying archaeology, specifically focusing on prehistoric cave art in the southeastern United States. She received her BFA and MFA degrees from Pratt Institute. Roemer has exhibited work nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Guild Hall in East Hampton, the Piramal Art Museum in Mumbai, the Long Island Museum, Pratt Institute, the University of Vermont, Taiwan Children’s Museum, and more.
Roemer has pursued a variety of creative projects for work; an Americorps Scholar; a journalist for Art Observed, specializing in covering the NYC auction season and was an Assistant Art Collaborator with NYU Tisch’s The Season Comedia Del’Arte in Florence, Italy. She has held residencies in the USA, Europe, and Asia: at Vermont Studio Center, in England at 42 Acres, and at Kio-a-Thau Sugar Refinery Artist Village in Taiwan. Roemer has received grants from Pratt Institute in 2017, COPE NYC in 2018 and 2019, Do Your Part & Paddlers For Humanity in 2016, World Connect in 2015, and ARTwerk in 2014.
Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., she completed projects in Greece volunteering with Desmos and Metadrasi during the Refugee Crisis, with La Isla Foundation addressing the CKDu epidemic in Nicaragua, and worked on environmental initiatives as the Oceans Care Director of Art and Communications in Indonesia. Recently, she illustrated and published her first children’s book with author Patrick Gilmour, The Flowerdrops.