Augustine Romero

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Augustine Romero was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design (1985) at Colorado State University Pueblo formally: University of Southern Colorado. After graduation Mr. Romero worked in numerous art fields from graphic design to a foundry assistant at a bronze casting foundry: Renaissance Bronze, Pueblo, Colorado working on numerous private and public works. During this period Mr. Romero begin curating art exhibits at local coffee shops and cafes with the sole intention to show his work and others. 

In 1997 Mr. Romero received a Masters in Fine Arts from New York University. From 1997 – 2001 he taught Product Design at Parsons School of Design, New York. Since 2006 to present Mr. Romero has been employed by the City of Albuquerque as a Gallery Curator over seeing the KiMo Gallery and the South Broadway Cultural Center Gallery: curating 12 exhibits a year.  In addition he also worked at the Jonson Gallery, UNM and the University of New Mexico Fine Art Museum. Others honors include fellowships at Socrates Sculpture Park and The Smithsonian. 

Mr. Romero continues to work and develop his own art exhibiting regionally and has public sculptures and works in private collections. 

The concept of "Displaced Context" refers to the current state of affairs where competing narratives about power, privilege and inequality are broadcast via the media and official government proclamations. Facts are twisted and retold to support fetishized narratives that distract from the realities of inequality and injustice. The works I am creating shine a light on multiple displaced contexts and offer a space for imagining what could be if we dare to create counter narratives told from the position of the lived experiences of marginalized communities voices for truth and social justice transformations. I use material and subject matter from my own life experiences of resisting by creating a new language of possibility in a displaced context.