Rebeca Romero's practice spans sculpture, textiles, writing, sound and performance. She creates objects, texts and installations that challenge the dominant historical narrative of the clash between Indigenous and European cultures. Often combining Pre-Columbian iconography with advanced scanning and printing technologies and materials ranging from clay to plastic, her works swing drastically between the past and an alternate future. Online museum archives become an excavation ground for the collection of data, that she later recontextualizes, reassembles and re-presents. With a focus on new materialities, processes of production and collaboration between artist and machine, her work seeks to question ideas and practices of representation, appropriation and authorship.
Romero received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2020), and she is a recipient of the Arts Council of England ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ grant (2021).
Romero has recently been awarded the OGR Prize 2023 for her work Semilla SAGRADA. The work has been acquired by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, remaining on loan to OGR Torino in its physical and digital versions. Other recent acquisitions include KADIST Collection, ESCALA Collection (The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America) and S. Davíðsdóttir.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Cosmotechnics, FACT Liverpool (UK, current); InBetween: A Latinx Takeover, V&A East, London (UK); Giorni Felici, Palazzo Dandolo Parisi, Venice (IT); Holding Cosmic Dust, Corinium Museum, Cirencester (UK); Trinta/Treinta/Thirty years of the Essex collection of Art from Latin America, ESCALA (UK, 2023); Kenophobic Pantomimes, Below Grand, New York (USA); south open, OHSH Projects, London (UK), and her inclusion in the Phaidon publication 'Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now' (2023).
For her most recent solo/duo show with the gallery please click here.
For her most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Romero received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2020), and she is a recipient of the Arts Council of England ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ grant (2021).
Romero has recently been awarded the OGR Prize 2023 for her work Semilla SAGRADA. The work has been acquired by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, remaining on loan to OGR Torino in its physical and digital versions. Other recent acquisitions include KADIST Collection, ESCALA Collection (The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America) and S. Davíðsdóttir.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Cosmotechnics, FACT Liverpool (UK, current); InBetween: A Latinx Takeover, V&A East, London (UK); Giorni Felici, Palazzo Dandolo Parisi, Venice (IT); Holding Cosmic Dust, Corinium Museum, Cirencester (UK); Trinta/Treinta/Thirty years of the Essex collection of Art from Latin America, ESCALA (UK, 2023); Kenophobic Pantomimes, Below Grand, New York (USA); south open, OHSH Projects, London (UK), and her inclusion in the Phaidon publication 'Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now' (2023).
For her most recent solo/duo show with the gallery please click here.
For her most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Rebeca Romero, Semilla SAGRADA, installation view, 2023
Rebeca Romero, Huachuma 3000, 2022, 3D printed reconfiguration of Pre-Columbian vessel, PLA, universal primer, automotive colourshift paint, 27 x 26 x 29cm
Rebeca Romero, Warp and Weft, installation view, 2022
Rebeca Romero, The Gift and the Given, 2022, single channel video, 6 minutes
Rebeca Romero, A System of Flows, 2021, Digital Knit, Acrylic wool and cotton yarn, tassel fringe, 83 x 80 cm
Rebeca Romero, Early Horizon, 2022, Fiber laser engraved plaque. Ai generated. Mild steel, hardware, 32 x 32 cm
Rebeca Romero, The Wave, 2020, Digital Embroidery on metallic fabric, 40 cm diameter
Rebeca Romero, I realised I was in two jungles, 2022, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 cm
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Cosmotechnics, FACT Liverpool, UK (current) InBetween: A Latinx Takeover, V&A East, London, UK APUK#1: Peruvian Artists in the UK, Galeria John Harriman Mariflores, Lima, Peru Giorni Felici, Palazzo Dandolo Parisi, Venice Holding Cosmic Dust, Corinium Museum, Cirencester, UK 2023 Kenophobic Pantomimes, Below Grand, New York, USA Semilla SAGRADA, Project METAmorphosis, Duomo di OGR Torino south open, OHSH Projects, London, UK KaplanKaplan, Copperfield, London, UK 2022 Oracles and Algorithms, Copperfield, UK and so on, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria Promises from Paradise, The New Bridge Project, Newcastle, UK Post-Khé, Brutal, Lima, Peru Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite, Colchester & South London Gallery, London, UK 2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Firstsite, Colchester, UK Banho de prata, A'Drogaria, Porto, Portugal Eve presents #1, Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK 2020 The Obsolete in Reverse, Springseason Gallery, London, UK (solo) London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Pou sou Nefko Pou Paeis, Korai Project Space, Cyprus Annual Open Exhibition, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK Departure, Jean Claude Maier Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal Traceroute: Kon-Tiki, Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, London, UK London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK System Safari, AOS for Arebyte Gallery, London, UK Pou sou nefko pou paeis, Korai Project Space, Nicosia, Cypress 2019 The one that’s always there, the one that came late, the one that never arrived, the one that wasn’t invited, SB34-The Pool, Brussels, Belgium To every tortured geography, Goldsmiths MFA Interim show, London, UK The Good Room, Take Courage Gallery, London, UK Hoc Eva, Eve Liebe Gallery, London, UK Skin-Contact, Enclave Gallery, London, UK Awards, Fellowships & Residencies 2023 OGR Prize, Artissima, Italy 2022 Gocta Lab Art Residency, Cocachimba, Peru 2021 Arts Council of England DYCP Grant, UK 2020 Goldsmiths MFA Junior Fellowship, UK Almacantar Award, UK Bloomberg New Contemporaries (selected artist), UK Readings and Performances 2022 Future Artefacts Live, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK New Writing x New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK |