Victor Romão, the safest place (2010).

Opening reception Friday January 13, 2012, 7:30 PM

Opening night reception pix on our Flickr page.

Victor Romao is a multi-disciplinary Canadian artist working and living in Windsor, Ontario. He is interested in a variety of practices which focus on drawing, sculpture, performance and print media.

“Through his monochromatic drawings, spare woodcut prints and figurative sculptures, Windsor Ontario-based artist Victor Romao investigates issues of identity in distinctive ways. His practice includes bizarre likenesses of human and animal hybrids, chronicles of the deeds of anonymous, shadowy malefactors, and images of bucolic settings permeated with disturbing feelings of the surreal, uncanny, and ferocious. The artistís influences are varied, ranging from the clean inventiveness of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, elements of baroque European sculptural and religious conventions, and Romao’s impressions of youth in rural Southwestern Ontario. Numerous images point to behaviour considered “masculine” run wild. They also explore senses of belonging to a group, and the experience of those considered outsiders, which include conflicting senses of identity faced by new Canadians, and the profiles imposed on them from without.”
— Cassandra Getty, Museum London, London ON

Romao holds a BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand. His years spent living in rural Southwestern Ontario have acted as the catalyst for his present interest in exploring the topics of fear, alterity, and male violence.