Diego Romero
Art Director, Artist, and Musician in Carolina, Puerto Rico
Diego Romero
Art Director, Artist, and Musician in Carolina, Puerto Rico
(b.1985 Hato Rey, based in Carolina)
(design, mural, mixed media, music, songwriting, activism)
Motivations: existence, service, enlightment, beauty and transformation
Bachelor's Degree in Art, Communication & Society (2011) in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Drawing major award (2003): Central High School, Santurce, PR
Ancestry from Vieques, Rio Piedras, Naranjito and Canovanas. Passionately dedicated to muralism, visual art & music since an early age. Active since 1998 in graffiti & street art in Carolina, and later internationally with an independent approach. Between street and school he learned from masters like: Thor, Ske, Rosamarie Berrios, Martin Garcia Rivera, Jaime Romano, Susana Herrero, Enrique Garcia Gutierrez and Rafael Trelles.
In different opportunities he has offered art workshops to communities of all ages and backgrounds and recently he designed and directed a Mural project, painting with inmates in 3 cities of Puerto Rico as their rehabilitation program. He also had produced and co-produced mural projects, collective shows and live music appearances in the island and abroad in cities like: Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Austin, New Mexico and Chiapas.
Art shown at: Philadelphia City Hall,Área: Lugar de Proyectos, CIRCA, ARWI Foundation, Petrus Gallery, Galerías Prinardi,Galería Guatibirí, Galería Francisco Oller, Río Piedras,La Respuesta, Santurce.
Romero is constantly exploring art as language, juxtaposing emblems and contexts in any opportunity or intervention. The work has a poetical and musical soul to approach creation.
He had collaborated with Tepeu, Alkem, Danny Rivera, and some other musical projects. Now the artist is organizing his first solo album recording and developing new proposals for 2017 and the future.