Gustavo Romano / biography

Gustavo Romano
gusrom@gmail.com
gustavoromano.org

 

Gustavo Romano is a Buenos Aires-born contemporary artist who works in a variety of media including actions, installations, net art, video and photography. He uses media and technology devices as well as objects belonging to our daily lives decontextualizing them and trying to force a think over about our routines and preconceptions.
He has participated in many international events like the VII Havana Biennial, the I Singapore Biennale; the I Biennial of Lima; the II Biennial of Porto Alegre, Brazil; the I Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia, Argentina; Videonale 11, Bonn; Madrid Abierto 2010, Spain, Transmediale 03 Berlin; Ars Electronica 97, Austria, Madrid Abierto, Transitio MX, Mexico. In 1995 he founded the website Fin del Mundo (The End of the World), the first virtual space in Latin America focused in net art projects. From 2004 to 2008 was the director of the Medialab of the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires.
Since 2008 is the curator of NETescopio, an archive of net art projects for the MEIAC, of Badajoz, Spain. He is the director of Hello World, a virtual space for research on the interconnections of art, culture and technology, in a post-Internet context.
He has won several prizes like the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 and the Vida Prize Telefonica Foundation, Spain. He lives and works in Madrid.

 

EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2018  
A Brief History of the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Taichung.

2017  
Technostalgia, Carroll Fletcher Gallery. London.

2015  
2050, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.
95/15 A look at the MEIAC Collection on its 20th Anniversary, CEART, Madrid.

2014  
ZNE! Recommended for Imitation, Museo Metropolitano, Lima, Peru, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany.

2013  
Creative Cities International Fair, CentroCentro Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, España.
The XX Curitiba Biennial
Petrobras Prize, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2012  
Vida Awards retrospective, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, Spain.
Biennial of  Video and Media Art, Santiago de Chile.

2011  
Critical Fetishes, Mexico City Museum, DF, Mexico.
Festival Transitio MX, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, DF, Mexico.
What’s on your mind, World Bank, Washington DC, EE.UU.

2010  
Madrid Abierto, Biennial of Art in Public Space, Madrid, Spain.

2009  
Variation Time, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, Germany.
Sintopías, Cervantes Institute, New York, USA.
Utilities for an Unstable Universe, Tamayo Museum, Mexico DF.
Mercado de futuros, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires.

2008  
Sabotage in the abstract machine (1998 to 2007 works) MEIAC, Badajoz.

2007  
Taking Time, MARCO, Vigo, Spain.
Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany.
Sintopías, Cervantes Institute, Beijing, China.
I End of the World Biennale, Ushuaia, Argentina.

2006  
I Singapore Biennale

2004  
Heterotopía, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires.

2001  
Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum, New York.

2000  
VII Havana Biennial, Cuba.
The Afternoon of a Writer, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.
Three Events, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires.

1999  
II Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

1998
Circumstantial Evidences, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.

GRANTS / AWARDS (Selection)

2006  
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

2004  
Vida 7.0 prize, Telefonica Foundation, Spain.

February 2018