Romon Kimin Yang aka Rostarr is a multi-disciplinary artist, painter, calligrapher and filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of The School of Visual Arts where he studied experimental graphic design and printmaking, Early in his career he has managed to produce work in both the art and graphic design spheres, blurring the lines between the two. For the past fifteen years he is more widely known for his colorful abstract polymorphic paintings, totemic iconographic characters and mostly black and white calligraphic drawings. Always creating in a spontaneous manner, he is continually striving to find freedom within style, medium and form, and building upon the iconographic visual language he terms “Graphysics”, a word that exemplifies the geometric dynamism characteristic in his work. Since 1999 Rostarr has also been a core influential member of the group Barnstormers, a collective of approximately forty artists.
In 2000, he was named one of I.D. magazine’s “I.D. 40 under 30”, and recognized as an honoree at the 2004 A.I.C.P show held at the MOMA for his contribution to a celebrated Nike campaign. In February 2010, his forty minute motion painting film titled Kill The Ego will be shown at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. His artwork has been reviewed in Artforum, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Libération among other publications, and he has had solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Puerto Rico, and has participated in group shows on both a national and international level, also extensively as part of the esteemed Beautiful Losers show which has toured museums and contemporary art centers worldwide.
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Writing
Rostarr: The Man In The Maze by Alexandra Chang
Organic Harmonies by Rey Parlá
Four Theses on the Significance of Recent Paintings by Rostarr by Michael Betancourt
The State Of Information by Michael Betancourt
Selected Press and Reviews
April Reviews: Critics Pick, by Michelle Kuo, ArtForum
Art Reviews: Neospectives, by Shana Nys Dambrot, Modern Painters
Rostarr at O.H.W.O.W., by Arielle Castillo, Miami New Times
Art In Review; 'Sessions The Bowl', by Holland Cotter, The New York Times