Alexis Rockman New York, USA, b. 1962

Rockman graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1985, where he studied animation and video. By the late 1980s, his works had gained international recognition, and he began to participate in major exhibitions worldwide. In 1998, Rockman joined Columbia University and later Harvard University as a lecturer, also conducting workshops and master classes at leading art institutions across the United States.

Rockman’s lifelong fascination with natural history was shaped in his early years through his mother, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History. As a child, he often accompanied her on research trips, observing archaeological excavations and remnants of ancient civilizations. The stark contrast between the wilderness he encountered and the dense urban life of New York became a defining element of his artistic vision.

At the core of Rockman’s art lies an inquiry into how human activity transforms the natural world and how the environment, in turn, reflects these transformations. His vivid, meticulously detailed paintings combine the precision of natural science illustration with the intensity of contemporary imagination. Through dramatic depictions of ecological evolution and collapse, he envisions worlds where beauty and destruction, adaptation and decay, coexist in fragile balance.