• 1968 born in Aachen, Germany
• 1989 – 1994 studied biology and history at the University of Bonn
• 1994 – 1995 studied painting at the Kunstakademie Münster in the class of Prof. Udo Scheel
• 1995 – 2003 studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the classes of the Professors Rissa, Siegfried Anzinger, Helmut Federle and A.R. Penck
• 2002 Master Student of Prof. A.R. Penck
• 2003 Akademiebrief of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
• 1998 – 2024 Collaboration with Nina Römer as the artist duo Römer + Römer

Torsten Derk Römer lives and works in Berlin, Germany since 2000