Geboren 1929 in Western Pennsylvania,  USA
Lebt und arbeitet in Minneapolis, USA

AUSZEICHNUNGEN
 2009  SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, USA
 1995  ARTEC '95, Recommendatory Prize, International Biennale, Nagoya, Japan 
 1994  Golden Plotter, First Prize, Gladbeck
 1993  Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention Genetic Art – Artificial Life, Österreich
 1971+74
 Outstanding Educators of America, USA
 1970  Bush Leadership Fellow. MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, USA 

EDUCATION

1970

Certificate of Completion, “Computer Concepts”, Control Data Institute, Minneapolis, USA
1969

Ekistics Seminar, Constantine Doxiadis, Athen 
1962-63    
Drucken, Hayter's Atelier 17, Paris 
1961-62

Kunstgeschichte New York University und Columbia University
1961

MFA Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
1953-59

Theologie St Vincent Seminary, Latrobe, Pa.
1955

BA, Philosophy St Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa.
1949

Diplom Art Institute of Pittsburgh

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2010
ALGORITHMIC POETRY The Joy of Digital, Galerie [DAM]Berlin (6. Nov. 2010 - 22. Jan. 2011)
2007
Roman Verostko's Algorithmic Drawings, Nina Bliese Gallery, USA
2006
2001

1998
1995
Roman Verostko: Pearl Park Scriptures, [DAM]Berlin
Roman Verostko: Algorithmic  Art,  Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
The Manchester Illuminated Universal Turing Machine, Metropolitain University, Manchester, UK
Computer Generated Art, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota, USA
1993
Recent Epigenetic Works, Richard Halonen Fine Arts, Limited, Minneapolis, USA
1989

1988

1985

1983               
Pathways: 25 Years From Brush to Plotter, Honeywell Corporate Gallery, Minneapolis, USA (Februar)
Pathways: Robotic Paintings and Drawings. Benedicta Arts Center, College of Saint Benedict, Minnesota, USA
Arcadia: Minnesota in Four Seasons, Programmed sound & image, MCAD, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Magic Hand of Chance: four algorithmic sequences, John Scobee’s Computer Storefront, Minneapolis, USA
1973
Paintings, Drawings, Trajectory Gallery, London, Ontario
1972
Imaging the Unseen, Westlake Gallery, Minneapolis
1968
Paintings, Drawings, Westlake Gallery, Minneapolis
1967 Psalms in Sound and Image, Marymount Manhattan College, N.Y.
1965
Paintings & Drawings, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
1966
Paintings by Roman Verostko, Benedicta Arts Center, College of St. Benedict, Minnesota
1963
Paintings and Drawings, Maison Biermans-Lapôtre, Cité Universitaire, Paris

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2010

ThinkLine - Concept, Computer, Code, Drawing, [DAM]Cologne (4. Okt. - 7. Nov.)
2009

Digital Pioneers, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (7. Dez. 2009 - 20. Juni 2010)
2008    

2007               

Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, USA
Feedback, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial., Gijon, Spanien
Art Show, SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, San Diego Convention Center, USA
The Algorists, [DAM]Berlin
2006

20th Century Computer Art: Beginnings & Developments, Toma Art University Museum, Tokio, Japan
Computerkunst / Computer Art 2006 (11th International), Innovationszentrum Wiesenbusch, Gladbeck
Art Show,  SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
MCAD Faculty at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts
THE ALGORISTS: Four Visual Artists in the Land of Newton, University of California, Santa Barbara
Form und Raum, Computerkunst Actuel, Museen der Stadt Lüdenscheid Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid
2005

Art Show, SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles Convention Center
Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Algorithmic Revolution: The history of interactive art, ZKM: Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
2004

Computerkunst / Computer Art 2004 (10th International), Museum der Stadt Gladbeck
Contemporary Art & the Mathematica Instinct, University Art Museums, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Virginia
Art Show, SIGGRAPH 2004 Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2003   

Contemporary Art & the Mathematica Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth Campus
STATE OF THE ART: Maps, Stories, Games and Algorithms from Minnesota, Carlton Art Gallery, Carlton College, Northfield Minnesota
CODE: THE LANGUAGE OF OUR TIME,  Ars Electronica, Brucknerhaus, Linz
Art Show, SIGGRAPH 2003, Art Show, San Diego, CA
ARTWARE2, PUCP Cultural Center, S. Isidro, El Ojo Ajeno Galería,  Lima, Perú
2002

Computerkunst/Computer Art 2002 (9th International) Innovationszentrum Wiesenbusch, Gladbeck
Math and Art, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, 2700 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Florida, USA
2001


2000

Retrospective of Digital Art, London Guildhall University, London, UK
The New York Digital Salon, Selected Works, The Corning Gallery at Steuben, New York, USA
Algorithmic Fine Art, Computing Commons Gallery, Arizona State University
Computerkunst/Computer Art 2000, Innovationszentrum Wiesenbusch, Gladbeck
Through the Looking Glass, Beachwood Center,  Beachwood, Ohio
Digitally Propelled Ideas,  W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Art Gallery. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
1999

Ars (Dis)Symmetyrica '99, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Ungarn
Southern Graphics Council Media Exhibition, Arizona State University Computing Commons Gallery
Aesthetics + Artificial Life, Center for Digital Arts, University of California
Computerkunst'98, Gladbeck; Öko-Werkstatt in der Finne, Saaleck; Sammlungen der Stadt Dresden
1998

The Digital Artist: Art, Abstraction and Algorithms, The Williams Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Gallery of the Future, Under Construction, Loughborough, UK
1997

Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, NY
Art Show, SIGGRAPH '97 Art Show, August, Los Angeles, USA
Traveling SIGGRAPH '97 Art Show, Fraunhofer-Institut, Germany; Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario; Sausalito Art Festival; The Art Institute of Houston, Texas; Saint Malo, France; Festival Quai des Bulles, Palais du Grand Large; Centre d'Animation de la Vallee "Salvador Allende"; George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia
Digital perspectives, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
A Bunch of Digital Art, The College of New Jersey, Trenton, USA
1996

Creativity & Cognition, LUTCHI, Loughborough, UK
The New York Digital Salon, New York
1995

University of Vermont, Francis Colburn Gallery
SIGGRAPH '95 Art Show, Los Angeles, USA (August)
The New York Digital Salon, New York City
ARTEC '95, International Biennial, Nagoya City Science Museum
Elastic Visions, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
1994

Digital Visions, Williams Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey
Computer Art: Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge, Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, Indiana
International Exhibition of Digital Art, Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava, Slowakei
ISEA '94, Fifth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Helsinki, Finnland
Computer Art 94, Gladbeck, Karlsruhe
1993

The New York Digital Salon, Art Directors Club, New York
Genetische Kunst - Kunstliches Leben: Genetic Art - Artificial Life, Linz
Digital Salon des Independents, Cyberspace Gallery & Los Angeles New Art Foundation, West Hollywood, Los Angeles
Computer Art, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Ky.
TISEA Traveling Show, Museums in Adelaide und Brisbane, Australien
Electronic Media Show, Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD, USA
1992

Seoul International Computer Art Festival, Korea
Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney, Australia
SIGGRAPH '92 Art Show, Chicago, USA
Imagina: Images Beyond Imagination, Digital Art Gallery, Institut National de L'Audiovisuel, Monte Carlo
1991

Dada-Data: Developing Medias Since 1970, Maryland Art Place & Fine Arts Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.
Interface, Art & Computer, Park Avenue Atrium, New York City
El Art: International Exhibition of Electronic Art, Retretti Art Center, Finland
Art & Algorithm - Mind & Machine, St. Sebastian Press Gallery, Minneapolis
Fourth National Computer Art Invitational, Eastern Washington University
SIGGRAPH '90 Art Show, Dallas; Computer Museum, Boston; Barcelona, Frankfurt
1989

The Technological Imagination: Machines in the Garden of Art, Intermedia Arts Minnesota and MCAD
1988

CRASH, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit
Pathways: Robotic Paintings and Drawings, Benedicta Arts Center, College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota
1986

Magic Hand of Chance, Centennial Version, 1986

PROJEKTE

2008
Upsidedown Book & Mural, Fed Rogers Center, Latrobe, Pa., USA (opening: 2 Aug)
2006
Mural, Flowers of Learning, Hortus Conclusus Nazarenus, Spalding University, Academic Learning Center, USA.
1996-97  
Mural. Epigenesis: Growth of Form Science and Engineering Center, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul.
1982-90
ARCADIA: Minnesota in Four Seasons, ein audio-visuelles Programm; zahlreiche Ausstellungen, u. a.: MCAD 1982; University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (1983); Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, PRC, 1985
1966-67
Permanent reinforced concrete cast relief created as a load-bearing wall, Archabbots Gesprächszimmer im neuen Kloster, St Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, PA, USA

SAMMLUNGEN

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Ars Electronica, Linz
College of St Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota.
Deluxe Gallery, London, UK
Duquesne University, Pittsburg, Pa.
Janssen Pharmaceutica Corp.
Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Museum der Stadt Gladbeck, Gladbeck.
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slowakei
St Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pa.
St John’s Abbey, Collegeville, MN.
Tama Art University Museum, Tokio.
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth Minnesota.
University of St. Thomas, St Paul Campus.
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky.
ZKM Museum, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN


2003


1999      
1998
Epigenetic Art Revisited: Software as Genotype,  in Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf and Ingrid Fischer Schreiber (ed.) Code: the language of our time,  Ars Electronica 2003, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Osterfilden-Ruit 2003, pp. 156-167.
Art & Algorithm
in China Fine Arts, Shanghai 1999, p. 14 & 15
Die Preisträger des Goldenen Plotters / The Prizewinners of the Golden Plotter, Algorithmic Art and the Artist in Computerkunst 2000, Gladbeck 1986-1998, pp.21 ff.
Contemplating the Art Object in Cyberspace Culture in Computerkunst, Gladbeck 1998, pp.25-28.
1995
Notes on algorithm and art, Computer Graphics Proceedings in SIGGRAPH 95, Los Angeles 1995
1994
Notes on Algorithmic Art in ISEA '94 Catalogue.
The Fifth International Symposium on Electronic Art, University of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland, p.61.
1993
Introduction, Abstracts and Artists' Statements in Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Minneapolis, 1993.
Preface, Papers in Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art, Minneapolis 1993.
1992
Art & Algorithm: Classical Traditions Revisited: 'ars sine scientia nihil' in Cultural Diversity in the Global Village, Australian Network for Art and Technology, Sidney 1992.
1991
Computer Illustrations by Roman Verostko for a limited, fine art edition of The Derivation of the Laws, a chapter from The Laws of Thought by George Boole, St. Sebastian Press, 1990. Also in paperback, February 1991.
1990
Epigenetic Painting: Software As Genotype, The New Art in Leonardo, Vol. 23 #1, January 1990.
Writing The Score For Painting: Software As Art in Proceedings: Tenth Annual Symposium On Small Computers In The Arts, Philadelphia, 1990.
1986
A Rising Star: a report on the Chinese art academy, Prepared for the Education Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, The People's Republic of China, 1985.
Teaching In A Chinese Art academy in Arts Magazine, January, 1986 (MIA Monthly).
1980
A Futures Outlook on the Role of Artists and Designers: Art as if People Mattered in Futurics: Quarterly of Futures Research, V.4, No.3/4, 1980, Pergamon Press N.Y./Oxford, pp.26ff.
1975
Quelques remarques sur l'Art et le Religion le Sacré et le profane in Art D'Église No.170, First Quarter 1975, Brughes, Belgium.
1972
Experience in Community - The New Art, Liturgical Arts, Vol 40, No 2, February 1972, pp 32 ff.
1968
Abstract Art and the Churchand other articles related to the "Ars Sacre" movement and Liturgical Art in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, McGraw Hill N.Y., 1968
The Celebration of Man in Jubilee v.15 #10 April 1968.
The Fifteenth Station: The Celebration of the Marriage of Flesh and Spirit, Easter issue feature.
1962
Abstract Art and the Liturgy: Considerations from Gislebertus to Twentieth Century USA in Liturgical Arts, Vol 30, No 4, August 1962, pp 129 ff.

LEHRE

Current:
Professor Emeritus, Minneapolis College of Art & Design (since 1994)
2006     Advisory Board, International Symmetry Association (ISA).
1998-2002
International Advisor, Inter-society for Electronic Art (ISEA).
1992-96
Board Member, Inter-Society for Electronic Art (ISEA).
1992-93
Director, Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art (FISEA '93), Minneapolis.
1985
Visiting Professor, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, PRC (renamed: China Art Academy).
1969-71
Humanities Consultant, The Tetra Corporation, Minneapolis.
1969
Participant, Ekistics Institute, Athens, Greece.
1994
Professor Emeritus.
1988-91
Chairman, Liberal Arts.
1979
Professor of Humanities.
1975-78
Academic Dean .
1968
Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1963-68
Faculty, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.