ROMAN KALINOVSKI

EDUCATION

2015: MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2008: BFA from Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Department of Painting, Cum Laude

HONORS

2024: Visiting Critic, Kean University

2021: Visiting Critic, Kunstraum Studios

2015: Artist-In-Residence, Babycastles

2008: Augusta Hazard Painting Award, Department of Painting, Syracuse University

2008: Critical Studies Award, Department of Painting, Syracuse University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024: Reimagined Narratives, ZXY Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2023: Suffocating Intimacy, SHIM Art Network, Bridgeport, CT.

2023: SHIM Special Projects: Roman Kalinovski – Suffocating Intimacy, Artsy (Online Exhibition)

2023: Studies for an Impossible Portrait, DigiAna Studio, Long Island City, NY

2015: PORNOHAGIOGRAPHY, Pratt Studios Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (MFA Thesis Show)

2008: Recent Paintings, Westcott Community Gallery, Syracuse, NY (Senior Thesis Show)

2007: Tomb of the Haniwa, Drawing Room, Syracuse, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024: Escape Velocity, Incubator Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by John Holt.

2024: Rema Hort Mann Foundation: Buy What You Love, Halsey McKay Gallery, Easthampton, NY.

2024: Hello, Brooklyn // Techspressionism 2024, Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY.

2024: Rema Hort Mann Foundation: Buy What You Love, Storage Gallery, New York. NY.

2024: Art and Artifact, Incubator Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by John Holt.

2023: DigiAna Studio Group Exhibition, DigiAna Studio, Long Island City, NY. Curated by Seungjin Lee.

2021: The Things I’ve Seen~, Incubator Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2021: Smell of Digital, Space 776, New York, NY

2020: CJ One Gallery One Year Anniversary & DigiAna Group Exhibition, CJ One Gallery, New York, NY

2019: Internet Yami-Ichi in NY 3

2019: Harvest of Dreams, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019: Dolls – Pupa, Atelier de Melusine, La Trimouille, France

2019: DigiAna, CJ One Gallery, New York, NY

2018: ArtsClub Benefit, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY

2018: Shim Alumni, Aqua Art Fair Miami, Shim Gallery, Booth 227

2018: Someday, A Garden, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018: Borderwalls, The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jamie Martinez

2018: Hide & Seek, Vivid Space,  San Diego, CA, curated by Rachel Rickert

2018: small, Galerie Manqué, Brooklyn, NY, curated by George Metesky

2018: My Naughty Valentine, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY

2017-18 Artcritical Benefit Exhibition, Eric Firestone Loft, New York, NY, curated by David Cohen

2017 Digital x Analog, 3929 Studios, New York, NY, curated by Seungjin Lee

2017 Face Time, Galerie Manqué, Brooklyn, NY, curated by George Metesky

2017 The Rent is Too Damn High, The Apartment, New York, NY, curated by Roman Primitivo Albear and Raul Zamudio

2017 Transparency, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Tim Gowan

2017: Fluid, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Dakota Sica

2017: 30 x 30, GAMBA Forest, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Dallas Athent

2017: Alumni Art Fair, SHIM Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017:: Life Sized II, Anthony Phillip Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

2017: Beyond the Sight, K&P Gallery, New York, NY

2017: Remember Me? Big Mistake, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

2016-17: Endless Biennial, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

2016: Paper Fête, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016: Open Call, Lorimoto, Ridgewood, NY

2016: Internet Yami-Ichi 2, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY

2016: Posthuman Futures, New York University, New York, NY

2016: Synchrony, Babycastles, New York, NY

2015: NYC Arcade, NYU Game Center, Brooklyn, NY

2015: Open Call, Lorimoto, Ridgewood, NY

2015: MFA Summer Show, Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2015: Memento Mori, Postcrypt Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2015: Memento Mori, Morgan Avenue Underground, Brooklyn, NY

2015: Draw Into Me, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2014: Salonumenta, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2014: Unnoticed, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2013: MFA Welcome Show, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2012: Level_13_:_Cheat_Codes, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN

2011: California, Deitch Arts Continuum, Los Angeles, CA

2010: Fever Dream, CCCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2010: May Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2010: Spring Group Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009: I Heart Art, WORK Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2008: Level_13_:_Secret_Level, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2023: Ricardo Robinson: DEPOSIT, A Sound Installation, Arcade Project Curatorial,
Brooklyn, NY

2023: Seungjin Lee: BAKU, Arcade Project Curatorial, Brooklyn, NY

2022: Aisha Tandiwe Bell: TRAP, Arcade Project Curatorial, Brooklyn, NY

2022: Haven, Arcade Project Curatorial, Brooklyn, NY

2022: Skye Cleary’s Open Studio: But What Do You Think of My Work? Arcade Project Curatorial, Brooklyn, NY

2022: Chun Hua Catherine Dong: Cleavage, Arcade Project Curatorial, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED PRESS

My Study of Roman Kalinovski’s Studies For An Impossible Portrait by Stephen Gambello, Zero Thought to Z,

Roman Kalinovski: Trigger Warning: Nudity, by Nicholas Cueva, High Art

Interview with Roman Kalinovski, DigiAna Group

Exposition originale à l’atelier Mélusine, La Nouvelle Republique

Two Coats Selected Gallery Guide / September 2018, Two Coats of Paint

In the Studio with Roman Kalinovski, Anthony Phillip Fine Art

An Interview with Publishing's Savior (Not Really), and the Digital Age as Baroque: Today's Recommended Reading by Shane Barnes, Flavorwire

Artist Interview: Roman Kalinovski, ArtHash

Sex, Noise, and Audio Tape, 20 Watt, Spring 2008

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Conspiracy theories and aliens among us: The art of Dasha Bazanova, The Village Sun

On the Magic of Unfinished Works, Dee Dee Zine, December 2023, Digitally Downloaded, p. 9-14.

Armita Raafat: Traces and Silences at High Noon Gallery, NYC, Arte Fuse

A comparative look at the endings for iconic ’90s art in America and Japan: Evangelion and Twin Peaks, Digitally Downloaded

Seeking the Digital at PHOTOFAIRS, Arcade Project

New Faces and Voices at SPRING/BREAK 2023, Arcade Project

On the Baroque and That Era’s Influence on Thought in Gaming, Digitally Downloaded

Between Digital and Analog, Arcade Project

The Decadent World of Daniel Giordano, Arcade Project

AI: The Future of Art or a Sign of Society in Decline? Dee Dee Zine, December 2022, Digitally Downloaded, p. 4-10

Michael A. Robinson — Somma at DISPLAY, Art Spiel

Japan’s Cinema of Transgression, Dee Dee Zine, August 2022, Digitally Downloaded, p. 4-11

Hatsune Miku and the Future of Celebrity, Dee Dee Zine, July 2022, Digitally Downloaded, p. 11-25

Ancient Culture in Video Games: Japan’s Haniwa, Dee Dee Zine, June 2022, Digitally Downloaded, p. 4-11

By Forces Unseen, Arcade Project

Polychrome Presences, Arcade Project

Underbelly of the Beast, co-authored with M. Charlene Stevens, Arcade Project

Coloneobaroque, Act II, in Didier William, James Fuentes Press, Josephine Graf, ed., p. 49-60

RPG Maker as an E-Literature Platform, in Mind the Gap! Thinking Electronic Literature in a Digital Culture, Proceedings of the Electronic Literature Organization 2018 Conference, Bertrand Gervais and Sophie Marcotte, eds., p.169-180

The Revival of NO BODY, Arcade Project

Neon Genesis Evangelion’s Apocalyptic Psychology, Arcade Project

Keeping a Safe Distance with Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Arcade Project

Going for Baroque at SPRING/BREAK 2020, Arcade Project

Zac Hacmon at The Border, Arcade Project

The Bizarre, Disjointed, Mixed-Media Paintings of David Lynch, Hyperallergic

The Meaning of Artificial Life at the Korean Media Arts Festival, Arcade Project

Emergency Landing: Plan B, the art fair assembled from the canceled Volta, artcritical

Idol / Eye-Doll / 愛Doll / A.I. Doll / I, Doll, catalog essay for Dolls – Pupa at Atelier de Melusine, p. 16-18

Highly Significant Fragments: Fever Lure at Selena’s Mountain, Arcade Project

Nemo: The Anonymous Portraits of Katinka Lampe and Colin Chillag, artcritical

Jason Stopa: Between Audience and Stage, artcritical

Media Art and Electronic Literature in Montreal, Arcade Project

The World is Mine, Orbiting a Virtual Star, Arcade Project

Betting on the Figure at Volta, Arcade Project

A Break with the Past: SPRING/BREAK 2018, Arcade Project

The Willfull Glitch: Chris Dorland and Technological Singularity, artcritical

"send nudes plz": Frances Waite's Selfie-Portraiture, artcritical

Coloneobaroque: Didier William at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, artcritical

Outside the Bubble. | Bradley Hart, Quiet Lunch No. 5, p. 60-65

Peekaboo: Rachel Rickert at E.TAY Gallery, artcritical

Social Amnesia: Strangers, curated by Emma Frank, artcritical

Contemporary Hieroglyphs: The Friezes of Bob Clyatt, Arcade Project

The Grain of the Cyborg Voice, Critical Transmedia Vol. 12: Prosthetics of the Late Anthropocene, Phillip Baldwin ed., p. 16-18.

Material Synthesis: The collaborative art of Crystal Gregory and Alexa Williams, artcritical

Agreed Roles: Fetish and theater in the masks of Mehryl Levisse, artcritical

A Hybrid State: Art by seven Iranian-American women, artcritical

Theatrum Reticuli: The Stage of Shared Experience,  Critical Transmedia Vol. 11, Phillip Baldwin ed., p.20-23. ISBN 9781387000401

The Opposite of Sex: Betty Tompkins Paints Porn, artcritcal

The End of History: Adrian Ghenie at Pace, artcritcal

Fulfillment Centers: Brett Wallace at ART3, artcritcal

Esquire Showcard: Another layer excavated from the legacy of Robert Overby, artcritcal

"What is Electronic Literature?" : ELO at The Kitchen, AltSalt

Library of Babel: Ward Shelley's Complex Taxonomies at Pierogi, artcritcal

Videogames and the Digital Baroque, Kill Screen

O'Say Can You See: Laura Poitras at the Whitney, artcritcal

The Third Element: DataSpaceTime at Microscope. artcritcal

The Squirrel Accumulator: Trevor Paglen and the NSA, artcritcal

Through a Green Glass Door Opaquely: Perspectives in Alexi Worth, artcritcal

This is Real Life: John Miller's Crafting of Mediated Vision, artcritcal

Richard Phillips Laid Bare: A New Monograph on the Hyper-Realist Painter, artcritcal

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2025: Creativity Worth Expressing, podcast (forthcoming)

2025: Navigating Culture With Fractured Realities, panel discussion with Judy Collischan, Scotto Mycklebust, and Raul Zamudio, moderated by Priska Juschka, Lichtundfire, New York, NY.

2023: Artist Talk and Reading, DigiAna Studio, Long Island City, NY,

2023: Transcender Artist Talk, Equity Gallery, New York, NY.

2023: Relation Between Paint and Digital, panel discussion with Seungjin Lee and Tommy Mintz, DigiAna Salon, DigiAna Studio, Long Island City, NY.

2023: Techno Anarchy, panel discussion with Seungjin Lee and Tommy Mintz, DigiAna Salon, DigiAna Studio, Long Island City, NY.

2022: Guest on Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*t on Radio Free Brooklyn

2019: Artist Talk: Nancy Elsamanoudi with Roman Kalinovski, SFA Projects, New York, NY.

2019: Miku Forever, DigiAna Performance Series, Synesthesia, Brooklyn, NY

2018: RPG Maker as an E-Literature Platform, Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal, QC

2017: Trans-Cen-Der Session 01.09, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY

2017: Historical and Neo-Baroque Performativity, Interview with Phillip Baldwin, Art/Tech Salon, New York, NY

2016: Hatsune Miku: Cyborg Literature, Electronic Literature Organization Conference, University of Victoria, BC

2016: Final Fantasy VI and the Digital Baroque, Babycastles, New York, NY

2016: Miku Forever, Posthuman Futures Conference, New York University, New York, NY

2016: Posthuman Performance and Distributed Celebrity Feat. Hatsune Miku, NY Posthumanist Summit, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY

2015: Artist's Talk, Bushwick Art Crit Group, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY

2014: Idolatry, Graduate Symposium, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Founding Member, DigiAna Group

Member, Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)

Member, International Association of Professional Writers and Editors (IAPWE)