Michael Romeo was born in 1985 on Long Island, NY and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Romeo is a multimedia artist, musician, and developer who has performed live, released albums, visual art, and creative software under the moniker "Night Shining".

His performances are live real-time a/v performances that combine computer graphics and audio into a cohesive medium utilizing everything from algorithmic assisted musical productions to computer vision. Romeo's work integrates a multitude of technologies, electronics building, and computer programming.

As a creative technology director, Michael Romeo has worked with major brand clients like Microsoft and Nike, and alongside major artists like Bjork, Moses Sumney, and the estate of Sol LeWitt to bring custom software based art installations to life.

EXHIBITIONS

• AUG 2024   _NS Form Studies Installations Techspressionism

  • GROUP EXHIBITION Kingsborough Museum, Brooklyn, NY

• APRIL 2024 _NS Interactive Exhibit LiveCodeNYC

  • GROUP EXHIBITION Harvest Works, Governor’s Island, NY

• JULY 2024   _NS Morphologies Video Installation

  • The Holy Art Gallery GROUP EXHIBITION Barcelona, SPN 

• DEC 2023   BioHybrid Morphologies Robotics 

  • Digiana Studios GROUP EXHIBITION Digiana Studios, Queens, NY

• OCT 2023   Patterns and Behaviors Video Installation

  • NEO SHIBUYA Miyashita Park, Tokyo, JP

• SEPT 2023 BioHybrid Morphologies

  • Digitalized Typhoon Showcase Wonderville, Brooklyn, NY

• SEPT 2023 Morphologies Video Installation

  • Festival Pleamar GROUP EXHIBITION Buenos Aires, Argentina, ARG 

• JULY 2023 Morphologies 2023 Works

  • PUBLIC VISUALS GROUP EXHIBITION Root-K Contemporary, Tokyo, JP 

• JUNE 2023 Solo Exhibition Works 2020-2023

  • SOLO EXHIBITION Digiana Studios, Queens, NY 

• APRIL 2023 Morphologies 2023

  • Digital Release Sedition Art London, England, UK

• OCT 2021 Morphologies 2021 Works

  • 0 // 2021 PUBLIC VISUALS GROUP EXHIBITION Public Visuals, Tokyo, JP 

• NOV 2020  Video Installations 

  • XREnsemble GROUP EXHIBITION Light Box NYC, New York, NY 

• AUG 2020 Metempsychosis Video Installation 

  • TESTU COLLECTIVE GROUP EXHIBITION Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY 

PERFORMANCES 

• AUG 2024   BioHybrid Morphologies Live A/V

  • Electric Abyss Wonderville, Brooklyn, NY

• AUG 2024 BioHybrid Morphologies Live A/V

  • Techspressionism Kingsborough Museum, Brooklyn, NY

• DEC 2023   Live Generative A/V Performance

  • Pop Show Wonderville, Brooklyn, NY

• OCT 2023 Live Generative A/V Performance

  • Live Code NYC Wonderville, Brooklyn, NY

• SEPT 2023 Live A/V Performance

  • Creative Code Art Group Lumes Studios, New York, NY

• MAY 2023 Live A/V Performance

  • Pataphysics 004 Brooklyn, NY

• APRIL 2023 Live Generative A/V Performance

  • Space Orbit, Tokyo, JP

• MARCH 2023 Live A/V Performance

  • Public Visuals Showcase Tunnel Tokyo, Tokyo, JP

• JUNE 2022 Cybernetic Robotics A/V Performance

  • SOLSTICE POP-UP GROUP EXPO Flux Factory, Governors Island, New York, NY

• JAN 2021 Augmented Reality Visual Performance

  • ARS ELECTRONICA The Plaxall Gallery, New York, NY 

RECORDINGS

MAY 2022  Night Shining - _as (album release)

MARCH 2021  Night Shining - Metempsychosis (a/v album and video release)

JAN 2019  Night Shining - Patterns and Behaviors (album release)

JAN 2018  Night Shining - The Polygon (album release)

CREATIVE // TECHNICAL DIRECTION

2021 Moses Sumney 

            technoechophenomena

            Interactive Multimedia Installation 

            Pioneer Works Redhook Labs, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Bjork 

            Kórsafn 

            Generative Music Experiential Installation

            Sister City Ace Hotel, New York, NY

2020 St. Vincent 

            Feel the Pride

            Interactive AI Multimedia Installation

            The Ally Coalition, New York, NY

2021 Sol LeWitt Estate 

            Interactive AI Mobile App

            Microsoft, Seattle Washington