1938 Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in New York, Philadelphia and Ilha Grande, Brazil
Education
1950-55 Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
1956-62 University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Architecture
Selected One Man Exhibitions
1971 “Works on Paper”, Museo de Arte, Tucuman, Argentina
1972 “Landscape as Idea”, Center of Art and Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1974 Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
1975 “Typologies”, International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium
“Works: 1970-1975”, Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1977 Galerie Keller, Starnberg, Germany
1978 Works on Paper, Galerie Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
1979 Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
1980 “Mythologies, from Altamira to Manet, an Emotional Analysis of Art History”, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
1982 “Selected Works: 1972-1982”, University of Delaware Gallery, U.S.A.
“Color Environment”, Bauhaus Archive Museum. Berlin, Germany
“Art About Art” Landesmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
“Selected Works: 1972-1982”, Wanda Reiff Galerie, Maastricht, Netherlands
“Mythologies, from Altamira to Manet, an Emotional Analysis of Art History”, Musee d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, Germany
“Mythologies, from Altamira to Manet, an Emotional Analysis of Art History”, Neue Galerie, Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
“Mythologies, from Altamira to Manet, an Emotional Analysis of Art History”, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
“Paradigm Series”, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem
1983 Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
1984 “Retrospective 1972-1984”, XLI Venice Bienniale, Israel Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Galerie Linssen, Bonn, Germany
Drawings, Utrecht Museum of Contemporary Art, Netherlands
“Osvaldo Romberg und der Merzbau von Kurt Schwitters”, Kunstmuseum, Hannover, Germany
“From Analysis to Metaphor” Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
1985 Tibor de Nagy, New-York, U.S.A.
1986 Hybrid Objects and Installations, Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1987 Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Galeria Paolo Figueredo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988 Elizabeth McDonald Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
“Prepictum, Postpictum + Working Drawings” Galeria Julia Lublin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1989 Drawings for Installation Projects, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1990 Installations, The Jewish Museum, New York, U.S.A.
1991 “Building Footprints”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Building Footprints II”, MUHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
“Romberg: the '70s, the '80s”, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem
“Romberg: Art about Art”, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Romberg: the '70s, the '80s”, Ingrid Dacic Gallery, Tuebingen, Germany
“New Works” Galerie Schueppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
“Romberg: the '70s, the '80s” Luise Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
“On Scale” Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
1992 “Romberg: the '70s, the '80s”, Galerie Montagne, Paris, France
1993 “Building Footprints III”, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
“On Scale”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Virginia, U.S.A
“La vie en Valise: The Artist as Curator” Fundacion San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“New Works” Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
“New Works” Galerie Schueppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
1994 “Recent Works”, Ingrid Dacic Gallery, Tuebingen, Germany
“Re-Citing, Books and Short Stories”, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem
1995 “The Return of Martin Steel”, Artist Space, New York, U.S.A.
“New Books and Short Stories”, Galerie Hohenthal & Bergen, Cologne, Germany
1996 “+2000/-2000 Even”, exhibited simultaneously at Fundacion Xavier Corbero, Barcelona, Spain
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Voxx Galerie, Chemnitz, Germany
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Odessa
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, U.S.A
The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Stadtgalerie, Saarbruecken, Germany
Tel Aviv University Gallery, Central Library, Israel
Sudo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
“New Works”, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
1997 “Bypass” (1972-1997), Retrospective", Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Hohenthal & Bergen, Munich, Germany
Galerie Ingrid Dacic, Tuebingen, Germany
1999 “Romberg´s Walks at the Kunsthistorische Museum”, Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna and Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
2000 “Besame Mucho: A Hypertext About Love”, Domgrabungsmuseum, Salzburg, Austria, and White Box Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
“New Paradigm Series”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, U.S.A
“Retinal-Non-Retinal”, Staedtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg, Germany
2001 “The Library Is Burning (recent books)”, Jan Van der Donk Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2003 “Dear Theo…(the night Van Gogh cried)”, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
“From Paradise to Paradise: A Hypertext on Love”, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, U.S.A.
Selected Group Exhibitions
1966 “V Biennale”, Paris, France
1968 “VI International Biennale”, Paris, France
1969 “Experiencias 1969”, Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1975 “Biennial of Prints”, Krakow, Poland
1976 “Latin American Art”, Lousiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
1977 “Critics' Biennial”, International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium
1979 “Text, Image, Object”, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1980 “Art about Art”, Galerie Nouvelle Images, The Hague, Netherlands
1982 “Here, Now”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1983 “Three Artists about Monet”, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
1984 “Nackt in der Kunst” Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
“Arte allo Specchio”, XLI Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Second Nature”, Bard College, New York, U.S.A.
“Rationalism”, Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
1985 “Kunst in Israel”, Kenynklist, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
“Abstract Issues”, Tibor de Nagy, New York, U.S.A.
“Apocalypse”, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
“Artistas Convidados”, 18th Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Art about Art”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1987 “Quotations”, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
1989 Projects, (Installations), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, U.S.A
“Correlations”, Galerie Linssen, Cologne, Germany
1990 Tel Hai International Art Meeting, Israel
1991 “Perspective”, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1992 “Last Rose of Summer”, Wanda Reiff Galerie, Maastricht and Amsterdam, Holland
“Transparence, Transcendence”, University Museum of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A
“Quotations”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, U.S.A
1993 “Les Levine, Osvaldo Romberg, Nancy Spero”, Thread Waxing Space, New York, U.S.A.
“Quotations”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Ohio, U.S.A.
1995 “Avant-Garde Walk a Venezia”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“White Machu Pichu” Artists' Museum, Mitzpeh Ramon, Israel
1997 “Unmapping the Earth”, Kwangju Biennial, Korea
“Transversions”, Second Biennial of Johannesburg, South Africa
1998 “The Seventies”, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1999 “Faith”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, U.S.A.
“Plural Speech”, White Box Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2000 “Topologies: Weiner, Le Va, Anastasi, Romberg”, White Box Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Prizes
1967 Gran Premio de Honor Cordoba, Argentina
1968 Gran Premio Nacional, Argentina
1974 Premio Benson & Hedges, Argentina
1992 Sandberg Prize, Jerusalem