Roberto De Lamonica was born in Ponta Pora, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, in 1933, and studied in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He came to the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship award and soon was honored with one-man shows at the Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Original Print Gallery, San Francisco and Columbia Museum, South Carolina. He is a member of the faculty of the Art Students League, New York.

Museum and public collections include:

Museum of Wales; Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art; National School of Fine Arts, Lima, Peru; Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Museum, Warsaw and Museum of Fine Art, Lodz, Poland.Nelson