Gabriel Over the Kitchen Table
Made In Heaven
Crawling Through Glass
Self-Portrait in Yellow Panties
Palm-Weaving Woman
Semana Santa
Proposed Border Walls
West of the Sun
Two Statues for Semana Santa
Taxco-Hidalgo Landscapes
Information
Armando Román is a Chicago-based artist who creates works on paper combining digital brushstrokes with physical marks from crayons, colored pencils, and pastels. The Mexican landscape, both cultural and literal, intrigues him, reflecting both a familiarity and foreignness due to his familial history. His compositions explore the relationship between border and center, using colors and patterns informed by Mexican folk art. Roman's art intertwines religious motifs and queer aesthetics, creating works that reflect an interest in both euphoric belonging and dysphoric rejection, embodying the double bind of pleasure and pain in his identity as a queer religious person.
armandoroman582@gmail.com
Education
2019-2022 | MFA, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus OH / Visual Arts & Latin American Studies
2015-2019 | BFA, Magna Cum Laude, Denison University, Granville OH / Studio Arts & Philosophy
Select Awards/Fellowships/Scholarships
2023 | Individual Artist Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Chicago IL
2022 | Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship, the Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2021 | Center for Folklore Studies Graduate Appointment, the Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2021 | Emerging Artist Grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus OH
2020 | Department of Art Graduate Fellowship, the Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2019 | Fergus Scholarship Award, the Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2019 | Presidential Medalist Award, Denison University, Granville OH
2019 | Distinguished Leadership Award, Denison University, Granville OH
2019 | Phi Beta Kappa, Theta of Ohio Inductee, Columbus OH
2018 | Mary G. and G. Harold Osbourne Endowed Scholarship, Granville OH
2018 | Summer Scholarship Research Award, Granville OH
2018 | Merrimac Arts Scholarship, Granville OH
2017 | Summer Scholarship Research Award, Granville OH
2015 | The Posse Foundation Scholarship, Chicago IL
Residencies
2024 | Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE) Residency, Steuben WI
2023 | CPS LIVES Artist-In-Residence, CPS Lives, Chicago IL
2023 | HATCH Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago IL
2022 | ROY Residency, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus OH
Select Exhibitions
2024 | Two-Person Exhibition, Maybe You Need Time For Your Eyes to Adjust to the Dark, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago IL
2023 | Group Exhibition, To Be Continued…, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago IL
2023 | Group Exhibition, Mirroring, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus OH
2023 | Solo Exhibition, Made in Heaven, The Martin, Chicago IL
2023 | Solo Exhibition, Crawling through Glass, Comfort Station, Chicago IL
2022 | Group Exhibition, Midnight Things, The Martin Gallery, Chicago IL
2022 | Two-Person Exhibition, El Sol Infernal y la Semana Eterna, Roots & Culture Chicago, Chicago IL
2022 | Installation for MdW Art Fair Representing Roots & Culture, Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL
2022 | Solo Exhibition, ROY Presents: Armando Roman, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus OH
2022 | Group Exhibition, Enactive Architecture, Ministry of Culture & Tourism, Columbus OH
2022 | Group Exhibition, This, That, and the Other Thing, Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH
2021 | Two-Person Exhibition, Una Flor en la Memoria, Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH
2020 | Group Exhibition, 24-Hour Drama, Hybrid Arts Lab, Columbus OH
2020 | Group Exhibition, Queer @ Denison, Stonewall Columbus, Columbus OH
2019 | Group Exhibition, 27th Fergus Scholarship Award Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH
2019 | Group Exhibition, Consummate Love, Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH
2019 | Solo Exhibition, West of the Sun, Bryant Arts Center, Granville OH
2019 | Group Exhibition, The World is Round, Newark Arts Space, Newark OH
Relevant Instructional Experience
2023-Current | Lecturer
Department of Contemporary Practices, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Courses: Core Studio II
Research Studio I
Research Studio II: Latino Futures
2022-2023 | Academic Advisor
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
2019-2022 | Adjunct Lecturer
Department of Art, the Ohio State University, Columbus OH
Courses: Introduction to Photography and Contemporary Issues
2-Dimensional Studies
2019-2022 | Teaching Assistant
Hopkins Hall Photography Labs, the Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2017-2019 | Writing Consultant
Denison University Writing Center, Denison University, Granville OH
Professional Presentations and Artist Talks
Foulis, E. & Roman, A. (2022). Accessioning Bilingual Collections: ONLO Archival Internship. Online presentation given at the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University, Columbus OH.
Roman, A. & Witherspoon, T. (2019). DACA Allyship Training. Presentation given at the Center for Multicultural Student Affairs at Denison University, Granville OH.
Roman, A. (2019). Latinos as a Driving Force: Art Made in Response to the US/Mexico Border. Presentation given at the 3rd Annual Summit of Ohio Latinx Conference, Granville OH.