Robert Venosa

Robert Venosa was an American Fantastic Realistic, Visionary painter who resided in Cadaques, Spain and Boulder, Colorado, US.

The Fantastic Realism art of Robert Venosa has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars, and European aristocracy.
In addition to painting, sculpting, and film design - pre-sketches and conceptual design for the movie Dune, Fire in the Sky for Paramount Pictures, Race for Atlantis for IMAX - he also added computer art to his creative menu which was of course still in its infancy at the time, compared to the current levels of development.

His work has been the subject of three books, as well as being featured in numerous publications

New York City-born, Venosa was transported into the world of fine art in the late 60s after having experimented with psychedelics and having seen the work of the Fantastic Realists - Ernst Fuchs and Mati Klarwein in particular - both of whom he eventually met and studied under.

​Robert Venosa moved to Europe in the early 70's settling in the celebrated

Mediterranean village of Cadaques in Spain, where he enjoyed the honorable and mighty pleasure of getting to know and hang with neighbor Salvador Dali, as well as the numerous notables in the world of art and literature who gravitated to that magic locale. 

Much of Venosa's work and attendant exploits have been published in his second book, Noospheres (Pomegranate Artbooks). In it Venosa talks of the attitudinal complications of his returning to the U.S. after years of living in Europe: "In 1982 - due to a number of commissions,commercial allurements and a burgeoning recognition of my work afforded through extensive exposure in OMNI magazine and on record album covers - I started traveling to the U.S., dividing my time there between New York and Boulder, Colorado."

Over the course of 20 years Robert Venosa devoted a few weeks each year giving workshops at such institutes as Naropa in Boulder, Skyros Institute on the island of

Skyros in Greece, and Esalen at Big Sur, California, together with his compañera of 30 years and wife, Martina Hoffmann.