Gustavo Romano is an artist who works in a variety of media including video, installations, actions, web projects.
He is one of the directors of the website Fin del Mundo and LIMbØ project. Coordinates the Medialab and the Virtual Space at the Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires.
In 2006 receives the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2007 – Artificial memory, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
- 2006- Untitled déjà vu, Museum of Contemporary Art of Posadas, Argentina.
- 2006 – Untitled deja vu, 80m2 Gallery, Lima Perú.
- 2004 - Underground Information System, Intervention in the metro of Buenos Aires, Dialogues Buenos Aires- Berlín
- 2004 – Postköln, Intervention in public spaces of Berlín, Dialogues Buenos Aires- Berlín
- 2004 – Heterotopia, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires.
- 2004 – Sound piece to be walked on, Cultural Center of Spain, Montevideo
- 2004 – Sound piece to be walked on, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
- 2003 - Parasite Piece, Parasite Showing III, Barco-Galería Gregor Passens, Buenos Aires
- 2003 – The Afternoon of a Writer, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.
- 2002 - The Afternoon of a Writer, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.
- 2000 - Three Events, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires.
- 1998 - Circumstantial Evidences,(with Jorge Macchi) Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.
- 1998 - Cases of Identity, Cultural Center of Spain, Córdoba.
- 1997 - Shifters, ICI, Buenos Aires.
- 1994 - Video Installations and Objects, ICI, Buenos Aires.
- 1993 - Network, House of Catalunya, Buenos Aires.
Actions
- 2007- Lost Time Refund Office, Action of the Time Notes project, Vigo, Spain.
- 2007- Balloon Piece #2, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, DF, Mexico
- 2007 – Lost Time Refund Office, Action of the Time Notes project, Rostock, Germany.
- 2007 –Time Release, Action of the Time Notes project, Rostock, Germany.
- 2006 – Losing Time, Action on Orchard Road, Singapore
- 2004 - Underground Information System, Intervention in the metro of Buenos Aires, Dialogues Buenos Aires- Berlín
- 2004 – Postkölln, Intervention in public spaces of Berlín, Dialogues Buenos Aires- Berlín
- 2004 - Sound piece to be walked on, Mercado del Puerto y de Tristán Narvaja, Montevideo.
- 2002 - Sound piece to be walked on, Zócalo, Colonia Centro y Jardín Hidalgo, Colonia Coyoacan, México City.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2007- Taking Time / Tiempo al Tiempo, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
- 2007- Videonale 11 at the MNCARS, Madrid, Spain
- 2007- Art Goes Heiligendamm, Art interventions on the occasion of the G8 summit 2007, Rostock, Germany.
- 2007- Latency, TELIC, Los Angeles,EEUU
- 2007 – Caja Negra Cubo Blanco, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2007- Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
- 2007- Sintopías, Cervantes Institut, Beijing, China
- 2007 – I End of the World Biennale, Ushuaia, Argentina.
- 2006 – I Singapore Biennale
- 2006 - 3rd Bishkek Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- 2006 - En las fronteras / Grenzgänge. Neue Kunst aus Lateinamerika, Cervantes Institut, Viena
- 2006- META.morfosis, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
- 2005- About an unavoidable reality, MEIAC, Badajoz, and Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos Spain
- 2005- Inmaterial Museum, New acquisitions, ARCO Fair, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
- 2005 - Escultura - Objeto. Relectures from the MAMbA collection, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.
- 2004- The reduced model, Cultural Center of Spain, Buenos Aires
- 2004 – First View, Alliance Building, Berlin
- 2004 - Centro + Media, Mexico City
- 2003 – Mystic, Massachusets College of Arts, Boston
- 2003 -Transmediale.03, Berlin
- 2002 – Cardinales, MARCO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo.
- 2002 – Nueva/Vista Video Art from Latin America, IFA, Bonn, Berlin, Stuttgart
- 2002 – LowTech-HiFi, Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires
- 2002 – Last tendencies of the collection of MAMbA, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires.
- 2001 - Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum, New York.
- 2001 – Banco Nación Awards, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires.
- 2001 – Klemm Awards, Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires.
- 2001 – Lost Words, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires.
- 2001 – The end of the Eclipse, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, Granada, Salamanca. Spain and San Paulo, Mexico DF, Monterrey, Lima and Sgo. de Chile
- 2001 – Cultural Chandon, Castagnino Museum, Rosario, Argentina.
- 2001 – Traps. Around the simulacrum, Aliance Française, Buenos Aires, Argentina y Centro Municipal de Exposiciones (Subte), Montevideo.
- 2000 - VII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
- 2000 – Interferences, CICV, Belfort.
- 2000 –Buenos Aires Video XII, (Multimedia and Video areas), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2000 - The metamorphosis of the hand, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Parque de España Cultural Center, Rosario, Argentina.
- 1999 - borges.es, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain.
- 1999 - The metamorphosis of the hand, Villa Victoria Ocampo, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
- 1999 - Interactivity Zones, II Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- 1998 - XXI Century Art, I Festival of Electronic Art, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1997 - Iberoamerican I Biennial of Lima, Peru.
- 1997 - On Transit [current signs] , Chopo Museum, Mexico.
- 1996 - On Transit [current signs] , Patricios Bank Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1996 - Cold and Hot, Borges Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1995 - Video installations, 1st International Festival of Video and Electronics Arts of Buenos Aires, Renault Museum, Argentina.
- 1994 - Untitled, Giesso Lofts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1991 - Less or equal 30, Patricios Bank Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Collections
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Fundación Arco, Madrid; MEIAC, Badajoz; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario and private collections.
Festivals and Net-Art exhibitions
- 2007- Transitio, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, DF, Mexico
- 2007 - e-fagia, Xpace Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2007-Blog?, no-org.net
- 2006- VAE10, Lima, Peru
- 2005 – FILE, San Pablo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- 2004 –Moblog Enter, net-art exhibition,
- 2004- Centro + Media, Centro, México City
- 2003 – Videobrasil, San Pablo
- 2003 – Net.art CD.art, Casa Encendida, Madrid
- 2003 – Transmediale, Berlin
- 2001 - Net-Art selection for the exhibition El final del Eclipse, Madrid, Granada, Salamanca (Fundación Telefónica)
- 2001--# doble-vinculo. Iberoamerican Net-Art selection curated by José Luis Brea
- 2001-Festival FILE Museo de Imagen y Sonido de San Pablo
- 2001- Encuentros Internacionales Paris/Berlín, roARaTorio Transmedia.
- 2001- Mas Allá del Espejo: Iberoamérica Online ARCO 2001, Madrid and Armory Show (New York).
- 1998- Arte Siglo XXI, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
- 1997- Ars Electronica, Linz
Web Projects
- 2007 – Sky blue and white (http://findelmundo.com.ar/azulcielo/)
- 2005 – Private Piece (www.findelmundo.com.ar/pp01/)
- 2004/06 – Pocketlog (moblog.findelmundo.com.ar )
- 2003/06 – CyberZoo (www.cyberzoo.org
- 2000/06 – Hyperbody ( www.hyperbody.org )
- 2004 – Sound piece to be walked on (psonora.findelmundo.com.ar )
- 2003 – The World 1:1 (1x1.findelmundo.com.ar )
- 1997 – Shifters( www.findelmundo.com.ar/shifters )
- 1996 – Mi desire is your desire ( www.findelmundo.com.ar/mdtd )
Grants and Fellowships:
- 2006 – Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2002 – Selected by Antorchas Foundation for a residence in the Multimedia Center, DF, México.
- 1998 - IV Seminar of Experimental Digital Techniques for Latinoamerican Artists, Antorchas Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.
- 1995 - Antorchas Foundation Fellowship, (Installations).
Awards:
- 2004 - Vida 7.0 Incentive for investigation , Fundación Telefónica de España.
- 2002 – Platinum Konex Prize (Digital Art), Buenos Aires
- 2000 – First Prize, Buenos Aires Video XII, (Experimental Multimedia).
- 2000 – Third Prize, Fine Arts National Exhibition, Buenos Aires
- 2000 - Special mention of the jury Prodaltec Prize of Digital Art, National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires.
- 1999 - Videoartist of the year, Argentinian Asociation of Art Critics.
- 1999 - Leonardo Prize, National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, (videoartist category).
- 1999 - First Mention, Buenos Aires Video XI, (Experimental Multimedia).
- 1989 - Special mention of the jury, 1st Youth Art Biennial of Buenos Aires.
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