Rohan Schwartz (b. Darlinghurst, 1986) is a Naarm/Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, writing, poetry, photography, and video. Drawing obliquely on his known Cape Town, Gujarati, Australian and Ashkenazi heritage, Schwartz's artworks pay homage to the hidden intricacies of overlooked nuances in our seemingly mundane everyday existence. His works often poetically linger on radical abstractions woven into the fabric of life, where the strangeness and profundity of daily moments are at the point of being lost to habit and function. These moments are essential to him to retrieve, to become the fulcrum for the resolution of a new interplay with words and meaning. His work points to the experience of studying something in detail, only to change one’s perspective on the thing itself to discover another radically different experience.

Schwartz earned a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009, and a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne in 2017. He has exhibited at spaces including West Space, TCB art inc., Substation and the National Gallery of Victoria. He worked as part of the collaboration Normal Gallery, whose projects were undertaken in Australia, China and North Korea. Schwartz has previously served as a Board Member at Seventh Gallery, and a Councillor for Art Education Victoria.