Name: Oomen
Given name: Rombout
Birth: 11-11-1975, Amsterdam

Phone: +31 (0)6 42 74 64 66
Email: mail@romboutoomen.eu
www: www.romboutoomen.eu

Works and lives in Amsterdam and Berlin

Art education

1996-2000
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands
Study: Fine Arts and printmaking.
Certificate in Juli 2000

Lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin

Selection of exhibitions etc.

2009

May: presentation book 20 drawings/silkscreen.
March: starting planning investigation/publication art in public space in Amsterdam.
January-Feruary: Working period Berlin.

2008

December: Assignment Publisher De Harmonie, start writing novel
October-November: Producer Art festival Hotdocks, NDSM wharf Amsterdam
August: groupexhibition Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
July: Mural for Amsterdam City Government.
January-December: Member of Board of NDSM-wharf, artist-workingspaces Amsterdam. Representing about 250 artists; goal: ownership of large area for artists in Amsterdam-North.
February-May: radio Amsterdam FM interviews about art and culture
January: Groupexhibition The Dutch Cacaofactory, Helmond.

2007

October: Official opening of The Kunststad at NDSM-wharf, Amsterdam, paintings and presentation of city installation project “I see it’s there I blink it’s gone”
August: presentaion at “Uitmarkt”, paintings and maquette of “I see…It’s gone
April: Start city installation project “I see it’s there I blink it’s gone”, in collaboration with Stichting Processor, Amsterdam
Build new studio, the Kunststad NDSM-wharf, Amsterdam

2006

October: “New Terrortories”, groupshow of Finnish and Dutch artists, P/////AKT, Amsterdam, curator-producer-artist
June; “Terrortory”, groupshow Muu gallery, Helsiki, Finland, curator-producer- artist
April-June; working period Helsinki, collaboration with academy
May; lecture art academy Helsinki, artist/teacher in residence
April; curator-producer-participating artist groupshow ”Consume toy”, Myymala2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland 2005
Head of jury national price department “Expo” for Kunstbende,

2005

Amsterdam Winner of pitch for decorating new building company Vaporpoint, Amsterdam.
“Everything for sale” , groupexpo as critic on dutch cultural management, artgroup The Dutch Cacaofactory, Helmond.
Berlin working period for seven months.

2004

”A new lowest point in the life of Rombout Oomen” , soloexpo SBK, Amsterdam.
Openings groupexpo Hang gallery, Amsterdam.
Design and execution espressobar “Zoma”, Amsterdam.
Soloexpo, Harlingen.
Biggest mural of Amsterdam “Roosje”, became a controversial piece about liberty of depiction in public places in several national news media.
Organiser/teacher paintingcourses, France.
Portaits of two jugdes of Amsterdam, conducted by the Winstongroup, Amsterdam.

Publications

Catalogue New Terrortories trilogy, several publications, in dutch newsmedia f.i. VN, NRC, HP/De tijd, Groene Amsterdammer, De Volkskrant, 2004 yearbook with “Roosje”, SBK magazine, Springerin art magazine Austria, etc.

Travels

China, India, South-east Asia, USA, New york, Canada, South Africa, Europe.

Workingperiods foreign countries

March 2005-September 2005 Berlin
April 2006- JulY 2006 Helsinki

Works in company and private collections.

Grands and Sponsorships:
Stichting kinetisch Noord, Amsterdam, 2007
Frame, Finnish Fund for Art, 2006
Dutch embassy, Helsinki, 2006
Kuvataideakademia, Helsinki, 2006
Finnish embasy, The Hague, 2006
SAS Scandinavian airlines, 2006
European Union, city development, 2004