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Romulo Sans

new york, NY, United States

Barcelona-born Romulo Sans’ diverse training took him from his home in Spain to the United States. S...

About the artist

Romulo Sans

Joined In 2014

(1 Followers)

About the artist

Romulo Sans

Joined In 2014

(1 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS

Barcelona-born Romulo Sans’ diverse training took him from his home in Spain to the United States. Sans originally studied contemporary music and jazz at the Aula de Música Moderna in Barcelona. Highly influenced by his grandfather, surrealist painter Juame Sans, he turned to the plastic arts under his then-mentor Isiah Zagar, spending his late teens building painstakingly detailed mosaics on the streets of Philadelphia, before studying graphic design at City College in San Francisco and finally, History of Fashion at FIT in New York, which he made his home for eight years as he ascended the global high fashion ranks.

In 1993, Sans opened SANS NY, an accessory boutique in Soho, and launched Sansmedia, an advertising agency for young, edgy labels on the rise in New York’s fashion scene. Sans attained international notoriety collaborating as a stylist and art director for high end publications like Details, Vogue Man, and Vogue France, whose art director Donald Schaider said of him: “Sans is a very rare and lethal combination of extraordinary artist with the camera and hot blooded adventurer with a ferocious appetite for life and beauty.” His collaborations with photographers including David Bailey, Mathias Vriens, and Alberto Fig...

Instituto Superior de Arte (I.S.A.) Havana, Cuba

SOLO shows

2013 – “CRUSHED” by Romulo Sans Curated by Juan Puntes,. Whithebox Nyc Feb 03 – Feb 10 New York

2011 – “COLLAPSE” by Romulo Sans Curated by C. Hartman. Galeria Hartman, April 15 – May 26 Barcelona.
GROUP shows

2013 – BEYOND THE CLOTH “THE KAFIYE PROJECT” Curated by Hala Abdelmalak September 6 – 29 at whitebox NY

2012 -AMERIKKA THE BEATIFUL Curated by RAul Zamundo Nobember 15-29 at whitebox, New York

2012 -FRANKENSTEIN ON THE BEACH Curated by Raul Zamudio August 23 – 24,at Whitebox, New York

2012 -LATIN LABOR DAY WEEKEND !! 
Curated by Renzo Ortega
 August 25 – 30, at Whitebox, New York

2012 -”HONORING ALI WEIWEI” with the Richard J. Massey Foundation Arts and Humanity Award. New York

2012 -”TRANSNACIONAL” 2011 Antigua ,CCE. Guatemala, Antigua, Brasil, Spain