BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Osvaldo Romberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958, and studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires between 1956 and 1962. He taught art at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Cordoba (Argentina), Puerto Rico and Tucuman between 1961 and 1973. Romberg immigrated to Israel in 1973. He has been teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Art since 1973 and served as head of the art department there for several years. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the art department of the University of Delaware in 1983-84. He lives and works in Tel Aviv and New York.

EDUCATION

1950-55   Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires

1956-62   Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura

TEACHING

1971-72   University of Tucuman, Argentina, Professor of Painting and Color Theory

1973-92   Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Professor of Painting and Color Theory

1979-83   Chairman, Fine Arts Department

1979   Appointed Associate Professor of Art University of Delaware, Art Department Distinguished Visiting Professor

Co-organizer, National Symposium: Education of an Artist at the end of the 20th Century

1999   Brooklyn College, Art Department, Visiting Professor

Technological University of Graz, Architecture Department, Visiting Professor

1983-99   Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Professor, MFA Program

1999   Montclair University, Artist-in-Residence, MFA Program

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1974   "Projects", Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1975   "Typologies", International Art Center, Antwerp (Cat.)
"New Works", Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv

1976   Galerie Louise Krohn, Baderweiler
"New Works", Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv (Cat.)

1977   Galerie Keller, Starnberg

1978   "Works on Paper", Galeria Peccolo, Livorno"Typologies", Horace Richter Gallery, Tel Aviv (Cat.)

1979   Galerie Stadler, Paris

1980   "Mythologies: From Altamira to Manet, An Emotional Analysis of Art History", The Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1981   Galerie Stadler, Paris
"Paradigm Series", Gimmel Gallery, Jerusalem
"Mythologies: From Altamira to Manet, An Emotional Analysis of Art History" (traveling exhibition), Musee d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg
"Mythologies: From Altamira to Manet, An Emotional Analysis of Art History", Neue Galerie - Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen (Cat.)
"Mythologies: From Altamira to Manet, An Emotional Analysis of Art History", Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna

1982   "Selected Works: 1972-1982", University of Delaware Gallery, Newark
"Color Environment", Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin
"Art about Art", Landesmuseum, Oldenburg Wanda Reiff Gallery, Mastricht

1985   "From Analysis to Metaphor", Galerie Stadler, Paris

1984   XLI Venice Biennale, Israeli Pavilion (Retrospective) (Cat.) "New Works", Galerie Linssen, Bonn
"Drawings", Utrecht Museum of Contemporary Art (Cat.)
"Osvaldo Romberg und der Merzbau von Kurt Schwitters", Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel (Cat.)
"From Analysis to Metaphor", Galerie Springer, Berlin

1985   Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (Cat.)

1986   "Hybrid Objects and installations", Museu de Arte de Sao Paolo, Piezo Electric Gallery, New York (Cat.)

1987   Piezo Electric Gallery, New York Galeria Paolo Figueredo. Sao Paolo (Cat.)

1988   Elizabeth McDonald Gallery. New York
"Prepictum. Postpictum + Working Drawings". Galeria Julia Lublin, Buenos Aires (Cat.) Artifact Gallery. Tel Aviv (Cat.)

1989   "Drawings for Installation Projects", Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv

1990   "Installations", The Jewish Museum, New York (Cat.)

1991   "Building Footprints" (traveling exhibition), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Cat.)
"Building Footprints", Museum of Contemporary Art, Muhka, Antwerp (Cat.)
"Romberg: the '70s, the '80s", Gimmel Gallery, Jerusalem
"Romberg: Art about Art", Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Romberg: the '70s, the '80s", Galerie Montaigne, Paris
"Romberg: the '70s, the '80s", Ingrid Dacic. Gallery, Tubingen
"Romberg: New Works", Schuppenhauer Gallery, Cologne
"Romberg: the '70s, the '80s", Luise Krohn, Badenweiler
"On Scale" (traveling exhibition), Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg (Cat.)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1967   V Biennale, Paris

1968   VI. International Biennale, Tokyo

1969   "Experiences 1969", Di Telia Institute, Buenos Aires VI. Biennale, Paris

1973   "Latin American Art", Wspokezsna, Warsaw, Poland"5 Tendencies", Zagreb Gallery, Yugoslavia

1975   Biennale of Prints, Cracow, Poland

1976   "Latin American Art", Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen Denmark Biennale of Prints, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1977   "Critic's Biennale", International Cultural Center, Antwerp

1979   "Text Image Object", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York

1980   "Art about Art", Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague

1982   "Here and Now", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1983   "Three Artists about Monet", Neue Pinakothek. MPZ, Munich

1984   "Nacht in der Kunst", Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel
"Arte allo Specchio", XLI. Venice Biennale
"Second Nature", Bard College, New York
"Rationalism", Kunsthalle, Berlin
"Art about Art", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1985   "Kunst in Israel", Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen
"Abstract Issues", Tibor de Nagy Gallery. New York
"Apokalypse", Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
"Artistas Convidados", XVIII. Biennale, Sao Paolo

1987   "Quotations", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Can

1989   "Projects – Installations", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Correlations", Galerie Linssen, Cologne

1990   Tel Hai International Art Meeting, Israel

1991   "Perspective", Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"Transparence, Transcendence", Forum Ludwig, Aachen

CURATORIAL WORK

2000   Co-curator, Faith: the impact of religion on contemporary art Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1999   Unquiet Urbanism, White Box Gallery, New York

1997   Narrative Sculpture, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia

COLLECTIONS

Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
MUHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum. Duren
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien
Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia
The Tel Aviv Museum. Tel Aviv
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. Ludwigshafen
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum. Duisburg

PRIZES

Gran Premio de Honor Cordoba, Argentina, 1967
Gran Premio Nacional Argentina, 1968
Premio Benson & Hedges, Argentina, 1974
Prize Sandberg, Jerusalem, 1992

PUBLICATIONS

Romberg, Osvaldo, Primeras Jonadas de Artes Graficas, Departmento de Artes. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina, 1972
Romberg, Osvaldo and Breyer, Gaston, Journeys into Visual Experience, Departmento de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina, 1972
Romberg, Osvaldo, Towards a Theory of Existential Teaching, Symposium Catalog, University of Delaware, 1984
Romberg, Osvaldo, The Inverted Pyramid, Text for the Paper Biennial of Duren, Germany, 1991
Romberg, Osvaldo, Art to Art. Life to Life., Text for Faith catalog, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut