Valery Oisteanu

             Valery Oisteanu is a writer and artist with an international flavor. He was born in Russia (1943) and educated in Romania. He adopted Dada and Surrealism

             as a philosophy of art and life. Immigrating to New York City in 1972, he has been writing in English for the past 38 years.

             He is the author of 11 books of poetry, a book of short fiction and a book of essays: The AVANT-GODS (in progress). A new collection of poetry with collage

             illustrations titled Perks in Purgatory appeared in Fly by Night Press in New York in 2009.

             For the past 10 years he has been a columnist at New York Arts Magazine and an art critic for Brooklyn Rail and  www.artnet.com.

             He is also a contributing writer for French, Spanish & Romanian art and literary magazines (La Page Blanche, Art.es, Viata Romaneasca,

             Observatorul Cultural, Contemporanul, Romania Literara etc.)

            As an artist he exhibits collages and assemblages on a regular basis at galleries in New York and also creates collages as covers and illustrations for books and magazines.