Bio

Tulio Romano is a visual artist and sculptor, born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1960.

He studied at the Escuela Provincial de Bellas Artes Figueroa Alcorta and at the National University of Córdoba.

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Since 1980, he has exhibited his work in various venues in Córdoba, and in 1991, he held his first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires.
In addition to solo and group exhibitions in Argentina, USA and Europe beginning in the 1980s, since 1994 his work has also been featured in major international contemporary art fairs such as ArteBA, Art Chicago, ARCO, Art Miami, and FIAC, among others.

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Among the awards he has received are:​ First Prize in Sculpture, Miró Scholarships (1993), First Prize, Young Sculpture 1994, Fundación Banco Crédito Argentino and Third Prize at the Salon Municipal Manuel Belgrano (1999).

He was invited to the biennials of Valparaíso, Chile (1993), and Havana, Cuba (1994), and participated in the Collateral Events of the Venice Biennale (2015).

He has received grants from The National Arts Fund (Argentina), 1989, Antorchas Foundation, 1990, Llorens i Artigas Foundation, Barcelona, 1994 and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2002.

In 2002 he was also awarded the Artistic Merit Diploma in Sculpture by the Konex Foundation for the 1997–2002 period.

 

​Alongside his artistic career, he dedicated over three decades to teaching drawing, painting, art history and theory at the secondary level, from 1987 to 2021.