Rachael L Romero
An award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and graphic designer with a background in painting and printmaking, Romero leads art workshops as an integral part of her work as an artist. She designs and conducts year-round art workshops for adults and children in various and settings, providing an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation. Romero curates and mounts exhibits; archives; edits, designs, produces and publishes artists' books, web sites, calendars, films and videos about the art process.
Born in Australia, Romero came to the USA as a teenager and excluding several years in Europe, has lived there since.
EDUCATION
M.A., Double Degree in Studio Art and Art Education,
Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio,1992
Undergraduate work: San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
South Australian School of Art, Adelaide, South Australia
Mediation Training: Volunteer Lawyers in the Arts, New York, NY
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (Poster Collection)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (Artists’ books and Poster Collections)
Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (Paintings)
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York City, NY (Print Collection)
The Whitney Museum, New York City, NY (Artists’ books Collection )
New York Public Library, New York City, NY (Print Collection)
Library of Congress, Washington DC (Print Collection)
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA (Print Collection)
Lhati Museum, Lhati, Finland
For twenty years Romero has run art workshops for homeless artists,
and children in New York City artpathways.info
2007-2008 Taught art in the experimental Advanced Learning Lab of
NYU Child Study Center, Asperger institute.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2005 Spirit of Moondance Award for Short Doc In the Shadow of Eden
2003 Documentary Short Film Award, Film Fest New Haven
1992, 1991 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1992, 1991, 1990, 1988, 1987 Blue Mountain Center, Blue MT. Lake, NY
1990 Advocet Studio, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1989 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1988 New York State Council of the Arts--grant to produce an artists’ book
with the Lower East Side Printshop, New York City, NY
1982 Award of Merit, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
1979 Award of Merit, San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, PNCA,
Feldman Gallery + Project Space, Portland, OR
2009 Every Body: Visual Resistance in the Feminist Health Movement,
I Space Gallery. University of Illinois
History of Relief Prints in Northern California, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA.
"Hobo” to “Homeless” a traveling exhibit in California
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, Miller Gallery ,
Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, Exit Art, NY, NY
Painting by Rachael Romero, Dharma Gallery, Zen Mountain Monastery,
Mt. Tremper, NY
2005 Transparency, Beacon Firehouse Gallery, Beacon, NY
2003 Home, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NY,NY
1995-98 Sniper’s Nest: Art that has Lived with Lucy Lippard, (catalog)
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY;
Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1988-90 Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY (catalog)
University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
New York State Museum, Albany , NY;
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
Peace Museum, Chicago, IL
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
FILMOGRAPHY
2010 Then and Now, 2010, 42 minute video featuring the art, reflection and song
of people who have been chronically homeless and fighting the stigma of
being exceptional.
Zen Master: an intimate portrait of John Daido Loori, 19minute doc.
2007, We Can Make it! 15 minute doc about homeless artists
2005, Water, Wind and Sky, 30 minute video loop presented in the
Beacon Fire House Gallery, Beacon, NY
2003-04, In the Shadow of Eden, 22 minutes, New York Times Critcs’ Pick
available on DVD
Premiered at the Yale Center for British Art in September 2003
Awards: Spirit Award for short doc, Moondance, Boulder, CO
Winner, Short Film, Film Fest New Haven, New Haven, CT s
2001 A Different Lens: the art of Laura Craig McNellis, 15 minutes,
Co-directed with Roger Ricco.
Premiered at the American Museum of Folk Art, NY, NY
Currently working on an animation The Back of Beyond
