about Stephen Romano
Curation
Curation:
-"MOMENTARY BLASTS OF UNEXPECTED LIGHT:
The Visionary Art of Burt Shonberg"Presented by The Philosophical Research Society & Stephen Romano Gallery
OCTOBER 24, 2024 – JANUARY 4, 2025.
-'THE ORACLE'S EYE"
14BC Gallery NYNY
Feb 15 - 24th 2024.-
-"THE SHAMANIC EYE"
GalleryX, Dublin
November 30 - January 27 2024.
-"WITCH'S EYE: THE CAMERA LENS AS OCCULT DEVICE"
WILLIAM MORTENSEN'S ART AND LEGACY
Wyrd War Gallery Portland, Oregon
OCTOBER 22 - DECEMBER 6 2022
-'HOMAGE TO H.R. GIGER"
Curated by Stephen Romano
December 1 2022 - February 28 2023.
-“MAGIA PROTETORA”
(protective magic)
The Art of Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos and Darcilio Lima
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio
June 1 - October 30th 2022.
-WHM CXXV
William Mortensen at 125
January - April 2022.
A multi venue celebration of the 125th birthday of American visionary photographic artist William Mortensen, January 2022.
Venues paying tribute included Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Gallery Of Everything, London, Historical Museum of Santa Ana, Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio.
-"BEYOND THE PLEASUREDOME: THE LOST OCCULT WORLD OF BURT SHONBERG"
produced by Stephen Romano Gallery
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio
-RAY ROBINSON - "THE THIRD DOOR PAINTINGS"
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio
November 17 - January 15 2022.
-"TRANSMUTATIONS: WITCHES HEALERS ORACLES"
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio
March 4 - May 30 2021
- "APPARITIONS" specters, conjures and the paranormal ...
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio
October 15 - February 15 2021.
-"WILLIAM MORTENSEN'S WITCHES"
SCOPE Art Show, NYC
March 5 - 8 2020.
-Barry William Hale
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio
December 3 - February 15 2020.
-"WILLIAM MORTENSEN'S WITCHES"
Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio
August 3 - November 3, 2019.
Born in Montreal in 1962, Stephen Romano apprenticed with British sculptor Ray Robinson from 1980 - 1982, after which he studied sculpture and drawing at the University of Windsor. Stephen then relocated to Canada's cultural capital of Toronto where he was a practicing artist, and participated in group shows at Artculture Resource Center, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Arteffect Gallery, among others.
By 1989 Stephen became interested in the commercial gallery business and was fortunate to have the opportunity to be mentored by Canada's leading art dealer the late Walter Moos. In 1991 Stephen was offered a position as Assistant to the Director at New York's 49th Parallel Center for Canadian Art, which was housed in the same building as prominent galleries such as Leo Castelli and Sonabend.
In 1993 Stephen returned to Toronto and worked with Miriam Shiell Fine Art, and afterwards worked at the Visual Arts Office of the Ontario Arts Council.
Returning to New York in 1996, Stephen began an 8 year experience as Gallery Manager of the Ricco Maresco Gallery, the leading gallery world wide in the field of Outsider Art. After this Stephen became a private art dealer specializing in the works of Outisder Art masters such as Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Charles Dellschau, Adolph Wolfli, and many others.
in 2014 Stephen Romano produced with Marquand Books the definitive monograph on America's earliest visionary artist Charles Dellschau, of which Stephen present the majority of the available works.
In 2014 Stephen opened a gallery project space in Brooklyn's Dumbo district. His program included exhibitions featuring prominent artists such as Colin Christian and William Mortensen among many others. Stephen also participated in art fairs such as The Outsider Art Fair, Pulse Art Fair, Scope Art Fair and The Metro Show, all in New York.
In 2015 Stephen Romano curated the exhibition "Opus Hypnagogia" at Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum. The exhibition received vast media coverage including a feature article in the New York Times.
Also in 2015 Stephen relocated the gallery to Brooklyn's Bushwick district and completed his program with exhibition by Rithika Merchant, Jel Ena, Charles Dellschau, David Molesky, Matthew Dutton, as well as the critically acclaimed exhibitions "Saint Bowie", "Magia Sexualis" and "Lexicon Infernali".
Stephen Romano has published several catalogs and essays by some of the most engaging and provocative writers of our time including the late Thomas McEvilley, Tom Patterson, David Ebony, Randall Morris, Christopher Ian Lutz, Barbara Safarova, A.D. Coleman, Allison C. Meier, Samuel D Gliner, Pam Grossman, Robert C. Morgan, and Idlu Lili Regulus.
Stephen Romano's exhibitions have received widespread critical acclaim, his exhibitions and curation have been covered in The New York Times on several occasions, Hi Fructose Magazine, Hyperallergic, Dangerous Minds, Vice, Slate, The Atlantic, Harper's, Juxtapoz, among many others.
Stephen Romano continues to be a private art dealer since late 2016, and has collaborated with many cultural institutions and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid, The American Folk Art Museum, Gagosian Gallery, Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania, Pratt Institute, special exhibitions for The New York Book and Ephemera Fair, Morbid Anatomy at Greenwood Cemetery and most recently the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick in Cleveland. Stephen Romano Gallery continues to curate exhibitions in New York mixing contemporary, folk, historical and ephemeral artwork.
Stephen Romano is the primary dealer for the art of Charles Dellschau, William Mortensen and the North American presentation of the art of Wolfgang Grasse and Darcilio Lima.
for further information please contact Stephen Romano at romanostephen@gmail.com
Photograph by Amie Cubio.
Interview with Faye Dowling, ANTENNA .
link to interview
Link to Interview
Stephen Romano, Mark Lewis, Larry Sloman, Joe COleman, Whitney Ward 2015.
Interview with Charlotte Rodgers
Jennifer Lauren collector series interview
