Cara Romero
Cara Romero (born 1977 in Inglewood) is a Chemehuevi photographer from the United States. She is known for her dramatic digital photography that examines Indigenous life through a contemporary view.
Biography
Cara Romero was born in Inglewood, CA, and was raised on the Chemehuevi Valley Indian reservation. Her father is Chemehuevi, and her mother is German-Irish.[1] Romero majored in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Houston.[1] She later studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts and Oklahoma State University.[2][1] Romero is married to Pueblo artist, Diego Romero, and the couple has two sons.[1]
Cara was the first Executive Director of the Chemehuevi Cultural Centre. In 2007–2010, she was an elected member of the Chemehuevi Tribal Council, became the Chairman of the Chemehuevi Education Board, and the Chairman of the Chemehuevi Early Education Policy Council.[2]
Work
Romero was influenced by the photography of Edward Curtis early in her career.[3] Later, she felt that her initial approach was not genuine to her own experience and began to experiment with different techniques and settings for her photographs.[3] She began to use digital tools, such as Photoshop, to combine her photographs and also to use more color photography.[3] Romero's contemporary work includes a large amount of staging to create a sense of theater and expresses a diverse picture of Native American identities.[3] The Santa Fe New Mexican describes her work as a “sometimes whimsical, often complex examination of modern culture with a distinctly modern Indigenous worldview.”[1]
The Bristol Post called her series, Water Memories, "breathtaking," and that it "exposes the fragile and essential relationships that exist between people, water and life."[4] Water Memories was shown in 2016 at the exhibition, "STILL," held at the Rainmaker Gallery in Bristol.[5][4] Romero's work, shown at "Captured" (2015) at the gallery contained both “intimate portraits and playful reconstructions of iconic masterworks.”[6] Rainmaker Gallery also hosted a “Pocahontas 2017” event featuring work by Romero.[7]
In the 2017 show, "Broken Boxes," held in Albuquerque, Romero's photograph, TV Indians, was described by the Albuquerque Journal as her “highest production project yet.”[8] The photo juxtaposes Puebloans with media depictions of Native Americans.[8]
Cara has won the “Visions for the Future” award from the Native American Rights Fund in 2017,[9] and several awards including ribbons at major art markets.[5]
Romero has also been featured at the Four Winds Gallery in Pittsburgh,[10] and the Robert Nichols Gallery in Santa Fe.[11][12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ortiz, Sara Marie. "Photographer Cara Romero: Creative Conversations". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Cara Romero - Bioneers Program Director Indigenous Knowledge". Bioneers. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Edwards, Jason M. (September 2016). "Through an Indigenous Lens". Native People's Magazine. 29 (5): 39–45 – via EBSCOhost. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Indigenous Artists Find". Bristol Post. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2017 – via LexisNexis. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Cara Romero - Rainmaker Gallery". Rainmaker Gallery. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
- ↑ "Photos Explore". Bristol Post. 27 February 2015 – via LexisNexis. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ "Celebrating the". Bristol Post. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017 – via LexisNexis. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 Reporter, Megan Bennett | Journal North. "New show pushes artists to 'break their boxes'". www.abqjournal.com. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ↑ "Twelve native artists honored for work". The Columbian. 2017-04-28. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ↑ xxxxx. "Four Winds Gallery: The Photography of Cara Romero". Four Winds Gallery. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
- ↑ "Robert Nichols Gallery Shows Work By Photographer Cara Romero, 419 Canyon Road". The Santa Fe New Mexican. 2014-12-26. pp. Z058. Retrieved 2017-11-28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "About Cara Romero". ROBERT NICHOLS GALLERY. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
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