Artist Profile

Rohn
Meijer

Rohn Meijer was born in Amsterdam, Holland, raised in Los Angeles, California.

“With traveling for “personal research”, a passion was born, that of photographing people of other places and cultures, creating the “excuse” to travel the world over.

Rohn Meijer was born in Amsterdam, Holland, raised in Los Angeles, California. At 22 returns to Amsterdam where he studies ceramics at the Rietveld Academy. After his diploma, goes to Italy for the first time and works as a designer of industrial ceramics, collaborating, among others, with Mario Bellini for Richard Ginori and with Ambrogio Pozzi and Joe Colombo for an on board table wear for Alitalia. Three years later returning to Amsterdam he works as a sculptor and also teaches industrial ceramics at the Academy of Industrial Design in Eindhoven. Collaboration with a Dutch photographer ignites a curiosity when introduced to the creative world of fashion. Once again returns to Milan were life takes on a new form of expression through fashion photography and personal photographic research. Franco Moschino gave him his first job and over time many clients followed including among others: Versace, Neil Barrett, Phillip Plein and Diesel. Finding pleasure in taking backstage portraits and fast-action shots during the super model frenzy of the early ’90s, he turned it into a
specialty, resulting in, among others, a twenty-year collaboration with the Dsquared2 brand. His work has been exhibited in various photography exhibitions in Europe and the United States and has been published in numerous newspapers, magazines, articles and photography books.
With traveling for “personal research”, a passion was born, that of photographing people of other places and cultures, creating the “excuse” to travel the world over.

Exhibitions

2000 “No Sex … Please, Galleria Babele, Milan, Italy
2001 “Point of Seduction”, Eera Old China, Milan, Italy
2003 “Lover Boy”, Oltrefrontiere, Varese, Italy
“Si Prega di Non Fumare”, Galleria Arte Arte, Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy
“Cuba Libera”, Eera, Milan, Italy
“Si Prega di Non Fumare”, Wells, Austria
2004 “Men on Black”, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 “Boxeur Amateur”, Galleria Qui Lab, Imbersago, Italy
“Blog on Arthur Rimbaud”, Castello di Rivara, Italy
“Dreamgirls”, Gallery Cultural-In, Milan, Italy
“Night in Hell”, Castello Rivara, Torino, Italy
“Dreamgirls II” Jaipur, Milan, Italy
2007 “Metamorphosis”, VR Gallery, Milan, Italy
“Dreamgirls”, Singapore Design Festival
2008 “Naked Chair”, Wozzup, Milan, Italy
“Naked Chair”, PB&J Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
“Into The Future”, Bertold Brecht, Milan, Italy
2009 “Metamorphosis”, Gardino di Solferino, Milan, Italy
2010 “Bad Habits”, Nu Hotel, Milan, Italy
“International Festival of Fashion Photography”, Cannes
“Fashionistas!”, Eduard Planting gallery, Amsterdam
“HIDEnieties”, MC2 Gallery, Milan, Italy
2011 “Pan”, Eduard Planting Gallery, Amsterdam
“30×40 Click”, Galleria Solferino, Milan, Italy
2012 “International Festival of Fashion Photography”, Cannes
2013 “Filter Photo Festival”, Chicago … winner
“Autumn”, Lo Studio, Budingen, Germany
“Pan, Eduard Planting Gallery, Amsterdam
“Master of LXRY 2013”, Eduard Planting Gallery, Amsterdam
2014 “Mangiami Con Gli Occhi”, Circuiti Dinamici, Milan, Italy
“The Spirit of Art”, Hotel Cortisen am See, St.Wolfgang, Austria
“Il Salotto”, Circuiti Dinamici, Milan, Italy
“Heist Lauch”, Heist Gallery, London
“I 5 Sensi”, Spazio Tadini, Milan, Italy
“Dreams Go On”, Eduard Planting Gallery, Amsterdam
2015 “Kunst RAI”, Eduard Planting Gallery, Amsterdam
“Realism”, Eduard Planting Gallery, Rotterdam
“125 Live”, Dray Walk Gallery, London
2016 “Caprices of Beauty”, Atelier Alen,, Munich, Germany
2017 “For Real”, Eduard Planting Gallery, Amsterdam
“Naked Chair”, Art Passage, MIlan, Italy
2018. “Art Breda”, Eduard Planting Gallery, Breda, Holland
2019 “Dreamgirls”, House of Fuzuli, Istanbul
“Light Festival Lago Maggiore”, Lesa, Italia
2021 “Kunst RAI Amsterdam”, Koster Fine Art Naarden
“Contrast”, Muse Contemporary, Istanbul
“White”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
“Street Photography”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens (groupshow)
“Street Photography”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens (groupshow)
2022 “Your Best Shot”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
“Irinox Save the Food”, MIA fair, Milan, Italy
“Chania International Photo Festival”, Chania, Greece
“Venice International Art Fair”, Venice, Italy
2024 “Metamorphic Dreams”, LK Design, Iseo (BS), Italy
“L’Originale”, Milan, Italy (group show)
“Christmassy Things”, Muse Contemporary, Istambul (groupshow)
2025. “Carousel”, Fabbrica Ero Gallery, Milano

Projects

METAMORPHIC DREAMS

Photography as Metamorphosis: Beyond the Myth of Perfection
The Aesthetics of Deconstruction
In an era dominated by digital hyper-definition, Metamorphic Dreams stands as an inquiry into the creative potential of matter and time. The genesis of the work lies within my archive: once-flawless slides and negatives are subjected to a process of chemical transfiguration. Through the application of liquid reagents, silver salts are liberated from their polymer base, allowing crystals to reaggregate into unpredictable chromatic formations and organic textures.This act of “intentional damage” is not mere destruction, but a quest for beauty within the error. It stands in direct opposition to the myth of formal perfection inherent in fashion photography, replacing the sharpness of glamour with a painterly density that surfaces precisely through the corruption of the medium.The result is a body of work pulsating with a new vitality, transforming the subjects who once constituted the soul of these photographs. Faces—once icons of statuesque beauty—now appear transfigured by chemical corrosion, triggering a visual short circuit that suspends the image between memory and discovery. While traditional painting has historically sought to preserve the subject from the degradation of time, my practice subverts this mission: it is through the controlled destruction of the film that the work finds its authenticity. The image is no longer a static representation of reality, but an object in a state of becoming. This work reflects consistently on the fate of the analog negative in the contemporary age. Destined for the oblivion of a dark archive or slow physical decay, the negative here finds its final apotheosis. In this context, destruction becomes the sole means of unlocking the image’s full potential. Metamorphosis is a process of perpetual flux. As Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier postulated, “nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed”; and as Picasso suggested, the destructive impulse reveals itself here as the ultimate creative act.

Artwork