ALEKS ROSENBERG
EDUCATION:
Yale University - MFA
Pratt Institute - BFA
Brooklyn Museum – Painting
Aleks Rosenberg is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker who resides in the United States and has exhibited and sold his works internationally. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute and MFA from Yale University School of Art. For Rosenberg, there has always been tension between darkness and light, and as such, his compositions seek to find a balance between the two extremes. Working through series, he uses contrasting found or repurposed materials to leave clues for stories to be told.
Aleks Rosenberg was born in a tiny village in Central Siberia to a Czech mother and Hungarian father, both survivors of Stalin’s infamous gulags. When he was an infant he contracted Cholera forcing the family to move to a warmer climate in Kirgizstan. As the family moved from Kirgizstan to Ukraine, to Poland, to Canada, and finally to New York, Aleks always felt like an outsider. He found his footing among new friends by excelling in art. Later, at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, he got hooked on animation and produced two short animated films that went on to win several film festival awards and were screened at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. He is also the recipient of the Ford Foundation Grant, Louis B. Mayer Grant, NY Art Directors Club Award, and Architectural Design Award. His artworks are in permanent collections at Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Nielson, Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, and numerous private collections all over the world.
At the same time, for over forty years, Aleks has been a principal of several successful film production companies in New York and Miami with such clients as IBM, AT&T, Bell Labs, American Express, Chevrolet, BMW, Prudential, People Magazine, Pepsi Cola, MTV, CBS, ABC, Sprint, Avon, Marvel, etc. Aleks has also created animations for such clients as ABC's Emmy-winning children's series Animals, Animals, Animals, and special effects for feature films and TV specials. He has also directed numerous music videos for such groups as Aerosmith, Foghat, The Ventures Special, and Bay City Rollers for clients such as Warner, RCA, Atlantic, CBS, Colombia, etc.
Aleks Rosenberg is also an award-winning feature film director, producer, and writer. His 35mm feature film, Zelimo, won: the “Gold Special Jury Award/ Best First Feature” at the 2002 Worldfest International Film Festival; "Best Production In Feature Film" Award at the 2002 First Annual Made-In-Miami Film Festival and has been selected to open The 2002 Annual Empire IFF, the 2002 Myhelan Film Festival, the 2002 Washington DC Independent Film Festival, San Diego IFF, Sarasota IFF, Ohio IFF, Palm Beach JFF, Buenos Aires JFF, Mexico IFF, and Miami JFF. It was shown on Netflix and had a DVD distribution run in Europe and Southeast Asia.