Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Website: romeroluis.com
Instagram:@totalromero
Born in Mexico, raised in Puerto Rico, currently living in Chicago. Working from the living room of my sunny apartment in Rogers Park.
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Master of Fine Arts 05.2001
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Post Baccalaureate Certificate 05.1999
Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas-Academia San Carlos, Mexico DF, Mexico, Certificate 11.1989
Boston University, Boston, MA, Bachelor in Arts: Philosophy, Literature and Film 02.1987
COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; US Department of State, Washington DC; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Fidelity Corporate Collection, Boston MA; DeBruin Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Deutsche Bank Collection Berlin, Germany; Collection of Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; Lambelet Collection, Basel, Switzerland; Collection of Anna Marx, Berlin, Germany; Jedermann Collection, Princeton, NJ; Collection of Rita and James Knox, Chicago, IL
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough New Hampshire
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2019 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Support Grant
2019 City of Chicago Individual Artists Program Grant
2010 3Arts Artist Award
2010 City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program
2007 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2001 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Scholarship
1999 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presidential Scholarship
EXHIBITIONS
All is Illusion, But Nothing Lies, Compound Yellow, Chicago, IL 01/2024
Ecolalia, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, PR 11.2020
El que busca, encuentra...y sigue encontrando, White Columns, Online Exhibition 09.2020
Between Land and Sky, Everybody Gallery, Chicago, IL 09.2019
Who Says Words with My Mouth? Who Looks Out with My Eyes?, Adams and Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR 11.2018
Memoria Presente, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL 03.2017
Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 01.2016
Luis Romero / Magdalena Frimkess, Adams and Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR 10.2015
Complimentary Width, The Franklin, Chicago, IL 07.2015
Rocket Run: Abstraction from Chicago, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE 10.2014
Starwalker, Threewalls, Chicago, IL 06.2014
The Armory Show, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, New York, NY 03.2014
Expo Chicago 2013, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Chicago, IL 09.2013
In Progress, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL 09.2013
Art Sandwich, Roots & Culture Gallery, Chicago, IL 05.2013
The Armory Show, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, New York, NY 03.2013
All is as All as as Yet or as Yet, Roots & Culture Gallery, Chicago IL 10.2012
Of, To, and From Ray Yoshida, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 04.2012
Day Job, The Drawing Center/Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 04.2012
The Armory Show, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, New York, NY 03.2012
Day Job, The Drawing Center/Albright College, Reading, PA 01.2012
Day Job, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 12.2010
Art Chicago 2010, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Chicago, IL 04.2010
The Armory Show, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, New York, NY 03.2010
Nameless and Reverberating, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 02.2010
Art Chicago 2009, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Chicago, IL 04.2009
Art Chicago 2008, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Chicago, IL 04.2008
Two Thousand Years of Sculpture, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 02.2008
Art Chicago 2007, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Chicago, IL 04.2007
Rock, Paper, Scissors: American Collage Now, Fleisher Ollman Gallery,Philadelphia, PA 03.2006
Art Rotterdam 2006, Annet Gelink Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands 02.2006
The Shadow of the Leaf Cannot Touch the Ground, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 10.2005
Art Basel 2005, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 06.2005
Drawn to Drawing, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL 04.2005
Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 10.2004
Scope-London, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, London, England 10.2004
Scope-Miami, Karen Lennox Gallery, Miami, FL 12.2003
Art Chicago 2003, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Chicago, IL 05.2003
Re-main, The Spareroom, Chicago, IL 05.2002
Art Chicago 2002, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Chicago, IL 05.2002
Tricia Treib, Aliza Nisenbaum, Luis Romero, 418 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 05.2002
The Summer Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL 07.2001