myer roze (they/them) is a queer & trans memory worker, interdisciplinary artist, oral historian, and community gardener based in Brooklyn. Primarily working in mixed-media sculpture, they draw from archival images, found objects, alternative photographic processes, and textiles to unravel the corporeal limits and speculative possibilities of the trans(sexual) body.

myer’s artistic practice emerges from their study of ‘90s/’00s digital ephemera and their fascination with the surgically re/constructed figure. Engaging Saidiya Hartman’s concept of “critical fabulation” alongside Susan Striker’s transsexual monster, their artistic inquiry traces themes of disfigurement, embodied (mis)memory, and haunting. Their manipulation of born-digital archival material blurs tensions across the innate/engineered and the memorialized/obscured, offering a world for our ghosts—and ourselves—to refuse.

myer is a trained oral historian through the Oral History Masters of Arts program at Columbia University.