James Romberger
Born: Port Jefferson, NY
CUNY Graduate Center, 2012-present
Columbia University GS BA, 2011
Borough of Manhattan Community College AA, 2006
School of Visual Arts, NYC 1981
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY 1977-79
Acker Award, 2015
Art OMI/Francis J. Greenburger Award, 2005
Selected Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC
Museum of Modern Art NYC
Brooklyn Museum NYC
Newark Museum NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art PA
Parrish Art Museum Southhampton, NY
Harvard Business School Cambridge, Mass.
The Library of Congress Washington, DC
Fales Library New York University, NYC
Phoenix House NYC
Selected Books and References
Best of Times, Worst of Times (cover) eds. W. Martin and C. Tichi NYU Press 2011
Quarto design and graphics w/M. Van Cook Columbia University 2009
Elements of Literature Third Course Grade 9 Pupil’s Edition Holt, Rinehart and Winston 2003
The Urban Lifeworld Grahame Shane Routledge London 2002
Elle Girl (first issue, illustrations w/M. Van Cook) vol.1#1, 2001
New York, New York: the City in Art and Literature Metropolitan Museum 2000
New York: The Painted City Grace Glueck 1997
Introduction to Criminal Justice 7th ed. West Publishing 1996
Your House Is Mine (silkscreened collaborative book) Bullet Space 1994
Redtape Ground Zero w/M. Van Cook and other art 1984-94
Art after Midnight Steven Hager 1984
Graphic novels and comics
Thought Bubble #3 Melusine (w/M. Van Cook) Image Comics 2015
Ink Brick #3 Perfectly Manicured to the Bone (w/M. Van Cook) 2015
The Late Child and Other Animals graphic novel (w/M. Van Cook) Fantagraphics 2015
7 Miles A Second (2nd Edition) graphic novel (w/ Wojnarowicz & M. Van Cook) Fantagraphics 2013
Post York (w/Crosby, Eisner nomination for Best Single Issue (or one-shot)) Uncivilized Books 2012
Loving Bin Laden MOME #22, Fantagraphics 2011
Aaron and Ahmed (w/Jay Cantor) DC/Vertigo 2011
The Bronx Kill (w/Peter Milligan) DC/Vertigo 2010
Mammoth Book of Best New Manga Vol 3 Robinson Books, UK 2008
Tales From The Crypt (w/ M. Van Cook) various issues Papercutz 2007-10
Blurred Vision 3 You Asked Me about Barbara (w/Steven Lack) Blurred Books 2007
Up Is Up But So Is Down, NY’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, NYU Press 2006
NYC Mech: Beta Love #1 Minimechs (w/M. Van Cook) Image 2006
Hellblazer: Setting Sun Vertigo/DC 2005
20/20 Visions: Renegade (w/ Jamie Delano) Cyberosia Press 2004
Seven Miles A Second (w/ D. Wojnarowicz & M. Van Cook) Vertigo/DC 1996
World War 3 Ripped Witness 4 Walls 8 Windows 1995
World War 3 Jesus In Hell Fantagraphics Books 1989
East Village Eye Ground Zero monthly strip (w/M. Van Cook) 1984-85
World War 3 Illustrated member of collective Art, stories and covers 1983-present
Essays and Criticism
Kirby’s Mentors: Hal Foster & Milton Caniff Study Group Magazine #4 2016
In Reverse: Forensic Cartooning Study Group Magazine #3D 2015
Toxl: Secret Pre-history and Eco-Terror Comic Book Apocalypse: Jack Kirby CSU Northridge 2015
You Killed Me First David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape Aperture 2015
Red Tide: the first modern graphic novel The Drawings of Steranko site 2009
Alex Toth in Hollywood (introduction) Pure Imagination 2009
Eyewash (w/M. Van Cook) and The Lord of Light: Barry Geller Jack Kirby Collector #52 Twomorrows 2009
Undiscovered Particles Jack Kirby Quarterly #13 UK 2009
Reviews and Interviews
This Brighter Path: James Romberger & Marguerite Van Cook; Nicole Rudick, The Comics Journal, 2013
500 Words: James Romberger & Marguerite Van Cook; Nicole Rudick, Artforum, 2013
Remembering David: A Graphic Tribute: James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook;
Grace Bello, Publisher’s Weekly, 2013
Romberger and Van Cook at 7 Miles a Second; Keith Silva, Comics Bulletin, 2013
Romberger Takes Readers to “Post York”; Alex Dueben, Comic Book Resources, 2013
David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six years on the Lower East Side, interview by Sylvere Lotringer, Ed. Giancarlo Ambrosino, Semiotext/MIT Press 2006
Art in America 12/02 pg. 114
NY Times 5/7/95 pg H37
David Lives (interview by Walter Robinson) on artnet.com 1996
Art in America 6/94 pg. 104
Village Voice (cover story) 5/14/96
Cover Magazine (interview by Michael Carter) Winter 1993
Art in America 10/91 pg. I53
Connoisseur 9/91 pg 131
Art in America 11/89 pg. 197
ARTnews 9/89 pg. 174
Paper Magazine 5/89
Solo and Collaborative Exhibitions
2016 The Nuclear Family Howl Happening NYC (w/ M. Van Cook & ClockWork Cros ) 2015
2015 Dust Dorian Grey Gallery NYC
2014 Dorian Grey Gallery NYC 2014 (w/Rick Prol)
2006 Halo Dinter Fine Art NYC (animation on website Project Room, www.dinterfinearts.com)
2005 FEVA Pantheon Capitale NYC (portraits of Ellen Stewart, Allen Ginsburg et al)
2003 The Proposition NYC
2002 “Tenemental” Prosper Gallery NYC
2002 “Night” Gracie Mansion Gallery NYC
1999 New Museum NYC (w/ D. Wojnarowicz & M. Van Cook)
1999 Max Fish NYC (w/ Marguerite Van Cook)
1998 Max Fish NYC (w/ Marguerite Van Cook)
1994 P.P.O.W. NYC (w/ David Wojnarowicz)
1993 “Euphoria” Grace Borgenicht Gallery NYC
1992 ”The Battleground of Good and Evil” Elston Fine Arts NYC
1991 Grace Borgenicht Gallery NYC
1989 Grace Borgenicht Gallery NYC
1988 Speeltuin J.J. Atelier Antwerp (w/ M. Van Cook)
1988 Beau Bruxelle Brussels (w/ M. Van Cook)
1987 Asylum NYC
1986 E. M. Donahue NYC (collaborative paintings with Marguerite Van Cook)
1986 Ground Zero NYC
1986 NADA NYC
1985 E. M. Donahue NYC
1984 Ground Zero NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Pilot Light Espace Le Carré, Lille, France
2006 No Straight Lines Cartoon Art Museum SF
2006 ABC No Rio Benefit Deitch Projects, NYC
2004 East Village USA New Museum NYC
2003 American Dreams Ronald Feldman Gallery NYC
2003 Benefit for Cabrini Hospital N.Y. Arts Society NYC
2000 Open Ends Museum of Modern Art NYC
2000 Mumia 911 1199 Hospital Worker’s Union NYC
2000 NY2K Charas/ El Bohio NYC
1996 By Foul Subtraction: Bodybag Project Art Space, Jersey City
1993 The Plague Years Gracie Mansion NYC
1993 Burning in Hell Franklin Furnace NYC
1992 Real Life Comics Longwood Arts Gallery NYC
1990 Art and the Law West Publishing St. Paul MN
1990 Inside the Beast Charles Lucien Gallery NYC
1988 Art on Paper 1988 Weatherspoon Gallery Greensboro NC
1988 The Oldest of the Young Bratton Gallery NYC
1986 The Changing Scene Museum of Contemporary Art Milan
1986 East Village Neopolitan Gallery Richmond VA
1986 Cold Hard Facts B-Side Gallery NYC
1985 Acid Test Sensory Evolution NYC
1984 Hit and Run Magic Gallery NYC
Curation, Teaching, other
Teacher of Language & Letterforms, Parsons/The New School Fall 2016
Teacher of Thesis Class, Parsons/The New School Fall 2015
Teaching Graphic Narrative seminars at Marywood University, Summer, 2015, 2016
Advisor to SVA graduate student, 2011
Producer of panel “Inside Out: Self and Society in Comic Art” at St. Mark’s Church HOWL! 2008
Producer of The Carl Solomon Book Expo, HOWL! Festival 2007, 2008
Producer and moderator of Comics Thinktank panel at Rapture Café for the HOWL! Festival 2007
Birth of a Salesman, performance at Bowery Poetry Club, 2007
Panelist for moderator Calvin Reid at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 2006 and at the Columbia University School of Journalism, 2007
Co-Curator “Business Unusual” Manhattan Borough President’s office, HOWL Festival 2004-05
Co-Curator of Arteries/Art in Tompkins Square Park, Howl Festival NYC 2003, 2004, 2005
Judge of the 2003 Prairie Art Show, Sterling College, Sterling, Kansas
Judged Tompkins Square Park Arts Festival w/ M. Van Cook, 1989
Co-Director/Founder Ground Zero Gallery with Marguerite Van Cook 1984-86 NYC
Co-curated many group shows w/ Marguerite Van Cook at nightclubs Danceteria, Kamikazi and
Le Palace de Beaute and galleries such as Sensory Evolution, Magic Gallery, Nolo Contendre,
Max Fish and others NYC 1984-present