Paintings
Roberto Azank was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1955; the grandson of an oil-on-canvas artist and the son of a master embroidery designer.
At the age of 14, Roberto won the first prize in painting at his High School; he went on to first study photography and later architecture at the University of Buenos Aires.
In 1979, he moved to the United States where experimentation with various artistic forms and media led to his decision to pursue a career in the arts. As he continued to hone his craft, Azank began painting brightly colored abstract works in acrylics. By the late eighties, his style had evolved from abstract to figurative and he started painting in oils.
In 1994, Azank moved to New York's Catskill Mountains and found in his still life and flower works the definitive style for which he is known.
Roberto Azank
American, born in Argentina
By 1996 Roberto had a solid style and moved to New York City to show his work.
Roberto’s Chi Kung teacher, Dr. Harold Koning was a friend of New York gallery owner Robert Miller. Bob was very helpful in getting the emerging work noticed. While we never had an exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery, he did show and sell some of the earlier Still Lifes (he bought Still Life #41 off the easel!), but most importantly Bob introduced me to people that would be very instrumental in my career. The poet Charles Henri Ford comes to mind, as we became close friends, and art critic Lee Klein, who later would write several essays on my work. Bob wrote "Roberto's work is very beautiful, resolved and poignant, particularly because the vehicle for the poignancy is the Still Life".
Two paintings were kept in the artist's collection as mementos of his first gallery mentor.
As the style grew lots of US shows followed.
In San Francisco Eleonore Austerer became a champion of Roberto's work.
The work kept growing far more complex both in scale and composition, first thru the series of Lotus Paintings and more recently with the Tulip paintings.
The Tulip Orgy has a story of its own, as it has been on the artist’s easel, non-stop and as the only work in progress, for 6 years.
In the meantime it was exhibited 3 times, each time deemed finished, only to resume work after the show ended.
A series of 1001 Close-ups of Tulip Orgy is in progress, each one a composition in its own right. They are being shown thru social media as they happen in real time.


What has been written about my work:
The San Francisco Business Times: "Roberto’s canvases convey a sense of hyper-reality through his bold use of color, precise lines and controlled composition. Common objects such as flowers, fruits, vessels and candles are given new life set against the strong horizon, which divides the artist’s rich color fields. These color fields, often indescribable in hue, are the cornerstone of Azank’s work, while the still life objects act as vehicles for exploration of positive and negative space, placement and scale. He elects to omit unnecessary ornamentation from his compositions, choosing instead to emphasize the precision and draftsmanship he originally investigated in architecture school."
Now at mid career, Roberto Azank has been described as a "metaclassical artist" whose interests lie in the abstract qualities of realism as opposed to the photographic copying of nature.”
Important Collections:
- Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C.
- American Express
- Sprint Telecommunications
- Bard College, Rhinebeck, NY

Studio in Greenpoint, NY. 1998. Photo: Paul Weiner.
Selected Exhibitions:
2017
Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY - Solo

Consulate General of Argentina, New York City - Solo
'Personal Identity Matter', Gallery MC, New York City



2015
Consulate General of Argentina, New York City - Solo
Post-EXIT - Montage of Wandering II, Gallery MC,
New York City
2011
Consulate General of Argentina, New York City - Solo
2010
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California - Solo
Mason Murer Fine Art / Besharat Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2009
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California - Solo

Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Plus One Gallery, London, England

2008
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California - Solo
Plus One Gallery, London, England

Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2007


Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California - Solo
Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut
Plus One Gallery, London, England
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California
2006
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California - Solo

Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut - Solo
Mason Murer Fine Art, “Primavera”, Atlanta, Georgia
Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2005
Plus One Gallery, London, England
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Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California - Solo

Simmons Gallery, San Francisco, California - Solo
Unison Arts Center, Retrospective, New Paltz, NY - Solo

London Art Fair, Plus One Plus Two Galleries, London, England
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2004
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, Washington - Solo

Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, N. Carolina - Solo
Simmons Gallery, San Francisco, California - Solo


Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Desert, California - Solo

Plus One Plus Two Galleries, “American Realism”, London, England.
London Art Fair, Plus One Plus Two Galleries, London England.
Plus One Plus Two Galleries, Art London ‘2004, London, England
2003

2003
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut - Solo
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, California - Solo
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Springs, California - Solo



Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, N. Carolina - Solo
Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. - Solo
Vero Beach Museum of Art, “Collector’s Choice”,
Vero Beach, Florida
Plus One Plus Two Galleries, Art London ‘2003, London, England
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
Artspace / Virginia Miller Gallery, “Latin American Invitational”,
Miami, Florida
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, “Latin Diversity”,
San Francisco, California
Artspace / Virginia Miller Gallery, Arte Americas Miami ‘2003,
Miami, Florida


2002
Austerer-Crider Gallery, Palm Springs, California - Solo
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, California - Solo
Center of the Earth Gallery, “The New Realism”,
Charlotte, North Carolina
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, “Still Lifes”, Kent, Connecticut
Austerer-Crider Gallery, “Flower Power”, Palm Springs, California
2001

Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland - Solo
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut - Solo
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, California - Solo
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Springs Intl. Art Fair, California

Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Artspace / Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
Lyons-Wier / Packer Gallery, Art Miami ‘2001, Florida
Austerer-Crider Gallery, Palm Springs, California
2000

Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri - Solo

Eleonore Austerer Gallery, Palm Springs Intl. Art Fair, California
Artspace / Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
Center of the Earth Gallery, “The New Masters”,
Charlotte, North Carolina
Brewster Arts Limited, Art Miami ‘2000, Florida


1999
Brewster Arts Limited, New York City- Solo
Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. -Solo
Albert Einstein University, New York City - Solo
Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, California
Artspace / Viginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
Brewster Arts Limited, “Major Works”, New York City
William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado
















Brewster Arts Limited, Art Miami ‘99, Florida
1998




Albert White Gallery, Toronto, Canada - Solo
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas - Solo
Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee - Solo
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York- Solo
Ramis Barquet Gallery, Art Miami ‘98, Miami, Florida
Artspace / Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
Brewster Arts Limited, New York City
Meredith-Kelly Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Elite Fine Art, Miami, Florida
Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, California
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
DeArte Magick, ‘Disegno e Colore’, (cur. Lee Klein), Easton, PA
Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1997

Consulate General of Argentina, New York City - Solo






Gallery @ 425 Lexington, New York City - Solo
Ramis Barquet Gallery, Art Miami ‘97, Miami, Florida
N.Y. Arts Magazine 2nd City-Wide Biennial,
(cur. Lee Klein), New York City





1993
Art and Mathematics Conference AM 93,
SUNY Albany, New York
1992
Gallery @ Broward Community College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1991
Marcos J. Alegria School of Fine Arts, Puerto Rico - Solo
Fractal Mural, "Computers and Art" Olympia and York Gallery,
(cur. Ludwig Datene), New York City
1990
Galaxy Gallery, ’Duel in the Sun’, Miami Beach, Florida



