Roee Rosen (b. 1963) is an artist, filmmaker and writer. He is known for his multilayered and provocative work which often challenges the divides between history and the present, documentary and fiction, politics and erotics. His work was shown in venues such as Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel. Rosen also created as a fictive feminine persona, the Jewish-Belgian Surrealist painter and pornographer Justine Frank, a project that entailed her oeuvre as well as a book, Sweet Sweat (Babel [Hebrew], 2001, and Sternberg Press [English], 2009), and a short film, Two Women and a Man (2005). A new Hebrew edition of the book was published in 2025. Rosen's second major fictive persona, Maxim Komar-Myshkin, was supposedly a Russian poet and artist whose magnum opus,Vladimir's Night (Sternberg Press, 2014).

Rosen’s films include Out (2010), which won the Orizzonti award for best medium-length film at the Venice Film Festival. His lastest film is Kafka For Kids (2022).

Rosen’s film, The Dust Channel was coproduced by Documenta 14, where it was exhibited along with two historical text and image installations, The Blind Merchant (1989–1991), an artist book retelling Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice focusing on the figure of Shylock, and Live and Die as Eva Braun (1995-1997), a work that stirred a political scandal when first exhibited at the Israel Museum.

Rosen's latest book Lucy is Sick (Hebrew, Pardes Publishing, 2024), tackles cancer in the guise of a coloring book. Five years in the making, its first chapters were published by Steirischer Herbst in 2020. Rosen recent expansive solo exhibition in Germany was held at Kunstverein Hannover, entitled The Kafka Companion to Wellness (November 2024 – January 2025). The show was accompanied by the artist book The Standard Edition of The Psychological Works of Roee Rosen (Distanz and KVH, 2024). Rosen is a professor at Ha'Midrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl College, in Israel.

*The photo of Roee Rosen was took by Goni Riskin