Shanee Roe

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Artist statement

Shanee Roe (born 1996 in New York City) is a Berlin-based artist. Her work strips away idealisation to expose the raw, unfiltered textures of human intimacy. Working primarily in acrylic and oil on canvas, Roe populates her paintings with clumsy, vivid figures, their boulder-like heads and wide, glaring eyes hovering between the cute and the unsettling, navigating the charged terrain of desire, vulnerability, power, and tenderness. Her practice draws on German Expressionism and the gestural directness of the Neue Wilde, while arriving at a visual language that is entirely her own: humorous and dark, grotesque and compassionate, always attuned to the psychological complexity of bodies in proximity. Roe studied fine arts and animation at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Christoph Ruckhäberle and at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien under Daniel Richter. Recent selected solo and group exhibitions include Kunstverein Ulm (2027, TBA), Museum Bensheim (2026), 68projects and KORNFELD Gallery, Berlin (2025, 2024), Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin (2021, 2024), and Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2025).

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