RACHAEL ROMERO

The interdisciplanary artist, Rachael Romero left Australia as a teen, eventually choosing to live and work in NY. Since the 1970's Romero has worked with printmaking, public art, mass installation, performance, film, video, painting and drawing. Her work is on view in the Sackler Center of the Victoria and Albert Museum, (London, UK) and she has work in the following exhibits: INSIDE: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions, with a screening of her film: In the Shadow of Eden, (National Museum of Australia, Canberra); Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81 (MOCA, LA,); All Of Us Or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland Museum of California; Essen unterwegs - Eine Ausstellung über Mobilität und Wandel (Schlossmuseum Linz Austria). The Australian curator, Dr. Adele Chynoweth's presentation: Art has Always Saved Me: the crucifixion motif in the work of Rachael Romero, scheduled in October, 2011 (Vatican Museum, Rome,) was censored at the last moment by the Vatican. Recent group exhibits include Every Body: Visual Resistance in the Feminist Health Movement, (Space Gallery, Chicago), Signs of Change (Exit Art, NY), Home, (Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NY), Sniper’s Nest: Art that has Lived with Lucy Lippard, (Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), Committed to Print, (MOMA, NY). Many of her posters are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, MOMA, NY; The Oakland Museum, among others. Residencies include: MacDowell, NH; Yaddo NY; Blue Mt. Center, NY; Virginia Center, VA and Woodstock Byrdcliffe, NY. Notable projects include her work as the principal artist of the San Franscisco Poster Brigade (1975-1983); her Innovators in the Arts lino-cuts, (1980-1985); her award-winning film In the Shadow of Eden (2003, 2004) the film Zen Master: an intimate portrait of John Daido Loori Roshi (2009). In 2011 she made the Nothing Sacred: Magdalene Laundry Drawings and is now visually exploring the aftermath of such identity-shock and trauma for a new film. Always choosing media that can be multiplied and widely disseminated, her body of work demonstrates a commitment to seeing, confronting and transforming. She holds a double M.A. (Studio Art, Art Education) from Antioch University, 1992.
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