Tony Romano, Not Here, Not There, installation view, 2024. Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA. Photo: LF Documentation.
Tony Romano, The Arrow (still), 2024, hand-drawn cel animation, 06:08.
Tony Romano, The Arrow (still), 2024, hand-drawn cel animation, 06:08.
Tony Romano, Blue raze, 2024, powder coated welded steel, 60 x 16 x 23.25 in (152.4 x 40.6 x 59.1 cm).
Tony Romano, Not home, 2024, powder coated welded steel, 30 x 40 x 16.5 in (76.2 x 101.6 x 41.9 cm).
Tony Romano, Not there, 2024, powder coated welded steel, 55.5 x 42 x 24 in (141 x 106.7 x 61 cm).
Tony Romano, The Big Hat, installation view, 2024. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Tony Romano, The Cast (detail), 2024, mixed media. The Big Hat, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Tony Romano, The Cast (detail), 2024, mixed media. The Big Hat, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Tony Romano, The Big Hat, 2024, video, 11:45. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Tony Romano, Pigro’s Cabinet, 2023. Laminated wood, granite; Inventory: 2 wood carvings, 1 ink painting on canvas, 1 oil painting on wood board, drawer full of ink and watercolour drawings on paper, 5 enamel painted metal birds, 75 x 46 x 46 in (190 x 116.8 x 116.8).
Tony Romano, Pigro’s Cabinet (detail), 2023. Laminated wood, granite; Inventory: 2 wood carvings, 1 ink painting on canvas, 1 oil painting on wood board, drawer full of ink and watercolour drawings on paper, 5 enamel painted metal birds, 75 x 46 x 46 in (190 x 116.8 x 116.8).
Tony Romano, Between the Lilies and the Birds, installation view, 2021. GTA21, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
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Tony Romano, Kissed By a Mule, installation view, 2017. Clint Roenisch, Toronto, CA. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
Tony Romano, Kissed By a Mule, installation view, 2017. Clint Roenisch, Toronto, CA. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.
| Tony Romano, Kissed By a Mule (detail), 2017. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid. |
Tony Romano
b. 1978, Toronto, CA
Lives and works in Oshawa, CA
Education
2003 BFA, Intermedia, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions
2024 Not Here, Not There, Franz Kaka, Toronto, ON
2024 The Big Hat, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
2022 No Mercy, Nicolas Robert, Toronto, ON
2018 Pigro, Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, ON
2017 New Work, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 Night Thoughts, Beers Contemporary Art, London, UK
2015 La Giubba (w. Corin Sworn) Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2015 La Giubba (w. Corin Sworn) Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2014 The Branch in the Salzburg Mines, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 By Any Other Name, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Goodnight My Love, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Notary Moon, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
2010 Notary Moon, Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
2010 a fist full of flies, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2010 False Creek, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 T&T, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 The Last Act, Article, Montreal, QC
2008 Onward Future, Oakville Galleries, ON
2008 Onward Future, Museum London, ON
2007 New Work, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2006 Three Tales, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2004 Return, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004 T&T/ ARRIVAL, Kulturhust, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Carchitecture, collaboration with Tyler Brett, ITT - EN Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004 Playtime, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
2004 OVERSEA/UNDERGROUND, Neon Gallery, Brosarp, Sweden
2004 Tony Romano/Marcel Duchamp, Trylowsky Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 White Hairy Tree, In collaboration with Shayne Ehman, The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC
2002 Punch, Concourse Media Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Dance With Me/ If By Chance, The Blinding Light Cinema, Vancouver, BC
2000 Evanescent Rumors, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 GTA21, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, ON
2021 Teeth, Loan and Trust Company, Consolidated: The Trylowsky Collection, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC
2015 Villa Toronto, Raster Gallery, Toronto, ON
2012 Ecotopia, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, ON
2012 Millenium Magazines, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2012 Unplanned Architectures, Neutral Ground, Regina, SK
2011 On the Nature of Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, BC
2011 Hunter and Cook Projects, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Hunter and Cook Projects, The Khyber Arts Centre, Halifax, NS
2010 Empire of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON
2010 Redux Park, York, Quay Centre, Toronto, ON
2009 Goodbye To Romance, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
2009 Air Conditioned Jungle, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2009 The Way I Are, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON
2008 You don’t really care for music, do you?, Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto, ON
2008 Everything will b OK, No. 9 Projects, Toronto, ON
2008 T&T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano), Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON
2007 Click/Shift/Enter, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 MACO, Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 The Property in Question, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Post Suzuki, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, ON
2006 A Thing Called Love, Neon Gallery, Brosarp, Sweden
2005 Weathervane, Oakville Galleries, ON
2005 Inaugural Group Show, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2005 Weathervane, Ottawa Art Gallery, ON
2005 Video Awards 2005, Plus Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2005 Dedicated to you, but you weren’t listening, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
2004 The Island and the Cave, Kunstbuero Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2004 2nd Site, McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
2004 The Island and the Cave, White Columns, New York, NY
2004 Republic of Love, Power Plant Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 Drawing on Architecture, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004 Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art Gallery, London UK
2003 On a Journey, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2003 Explorations In Psychic Geography, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Beyond Terminal City, VTO Gallery, London, England
2002 What’s love got to do with it?, The Butchershop Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 TRASPIE, Galleria Sante Fe, Bogota, Columbia
2002 Projet/Projo 2, Studio 303 Gallery, Montreal, QC
2002 Video Night, Beat Bar Gallery, London, UK.
2002 Emily Carr Graduate Exhibition, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 The Proposal Show, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 Let’s Span Time, No Brow Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 House Work, Duck Space Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Art Fairs
2024 NADA Miami, presented by Franz Kaka, Miami, FL
2024 Art Toronto, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, ON
2023 Art Toronto, presented by Franz Kaka, Toronto, ON
2019 Material Art Fair, presented by Clint Roenisch, Mexico City, MX
2015 Pulse Art Fair, presented by Beers Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2014 Volta Art Fair, presented by Clint Roenisch, New York, NY
2009 Toronto International Art Fair, Everything will be OK, presented by No. 9 Projects
Film Screenings
2021 The Actor, Prague International Indie Film Festival, Prague, Czechia
2017 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2016 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), Jeux D’ete, Chigago, IL
2016 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), ICA, London, England
2016 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), Tate Britain, London, England
2016 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2016 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
2016 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), CCA Glasgow, Scotland
2016 The Coat (w. Corin Sworn), Rencontres International, Paris, France
Publications As Author
2013 Ecotopia, published by Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery
2010 Notary Moon, published by Station Gallery, Oshawa and Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie
2010 T&T False Creek, published by Pendulum Gallery, Red Leaf, Trapp Editions, Other Sights
2008 T&T: Onward Future, published by Trapp editions, Oakville Galleries and Museum, London
2008 Weathervane, published by The Ottawa Art Gallery
Grants & Awards
2020 Visual Arts: Project Grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2017 Project Grant, Ontario Art Council
2016 Visual Arts: Project Grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2016 Project Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2014 Project Grant, Ontario Art Council
2010 Visual Arts: Project Grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2009 Cité Internationale des Art, Paris Residency, Canada Council for the Arts
2009 Project Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2006 Project Grant, Ontario Art Council
2006 Project Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2004 Film & Video: Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Press
2024 Rosie Prata, ‘Nadia Belerique and Tony Romano Practise the Art of Creative Living’, Nuvo Magazine
2024 Chris Hampton, ‘This artist uses whirligigs to tell an anti-capitalist fairy tale’, CBC Arts
2022 Jill Glessing, “Greater Toronto Art 2021”, Border Crossings Mag
2021 Kate Taylor, “MOCA launch triennial Greater Toronto Art 2021 to highlight the city’s ‘most exciting’ artists, Globe and Mail
2021 Tess Edmonson, “Toronto Roundup”, Art Agenda
2018 Leah Sandals, “News in Brief”, Canadian Art
2017 Darby Millbrath, “Interview with Tony Romano”, Editorial Magazine
2017 Daniel Joyce, “Tony Romano, New work: 2014-2016 at Clint Roenisch Gallery”, Artoronto
2017 Murray Whyte, “At the galleries: Of tanks, transparency and nasty women”, Toronto Star
2016 Murray Whyte, “On the Wall: Summer Daze in the Gallery”, Toronto Star
2015 “Corin Sworn and Tony Romano “La Giubba” at Natalia Hug, Cologne”, Mousse Magazine
2014 Bill Clarke, “Report: Canadian Art Highlights at the New York Fairs”, Canadian Art
2011 Beverly Cramp, “On the Nature of Things”, Galleries West
2011 Hunter & Cook: The Hub of Toronto’s Art Scene, Huff Post
2010 Lee Henderson, “Waiting for Blue (2010)”, The Walrus
2010 Murray Whyte, “The trickster as storyteller”, Toronto Star
2008 Tony Romano, “An Affair to Remember,” Canadian Art
2008 Betty Ann Jordan, “Tony Romano and Tyler Brett: Carichitecture, and Cautionar Ingenuity,” Canadian Art
2008 Murray Whyte, “Red Bull puts its energy into a gallery”, Toronto Star
2008 Richard Rhodes, "Toronto Now", Canadian Art
2008 Monika Burman, “T&T: Tech and Trees’, MAG
2007 Gary Michael Dault, “Crammed show burdened by weighty references’, Globe and Mail
2007 Madsen, Bjarke. “Low-key Tony Romano”, NOW
2006 David Jager, “Movie Mash-Up”, Now
2006 Gary Michael Dault, “Tony Romano”, Art News
2006 David Balzer, Eye Candy, Eye Weekly
2005 Peter Goddard, “A dose of conceptual art lite“ Toronto Star
2005 Sarah Milroy, Weathervane, The Globe & Mail
2004 Beel Garel, “Den estetiska undergågen” Malmö Kvällsposten
2004 Christopher Lembke, “Landskapsbilder och samhällen på grafi ska blad’, Ystads Allehanda
2004 Dan Jönsson, “T&T” C Magazine
2004 Julie Ryan, “The Cave and the Island” C Magazine
2004 Eric Sinclair, ‘Tankar om ett alternativt liv’, Kristianstadsbladet, Kristianstadt, Sweden
2004 Dan Jönsson, ‘Utopi eller satir?’, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Andrea Jo Wilson, ‘Tony Romano’, Hive Magazine
2004 Robin Laurence, ‘Drawing on Architecture’, The Georgia Straight
2004 ‘T&T/Carchitecture: Tyler Brett and Tony Romano in conversation with Patrik Andersson’, Art Files Magazine
2004 Corin Sworn, ‘Mark Leckey/Tony Romano’, C Magazine
2003 John Bentley Mays, ‘Tony Romano’, Lola
2001 Holly Ward, ‘Looking For Love At The Blinding Light! Cinema’, Terminal City
2001 Andrew J Paterson, ‘Taking Time Enough’, Lola
Collections
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, CA