PAC LA / IG Live
Cara Romero
Friday, September 26 at 11am PT / 12 pm MT
Co-hosted by Hannah Sloan & Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles on Instagram.
Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles presents its first live virtual studio tour, hosted by curator and advisor Hannah Sloan. Together, we’ll step inside the Santa Fe studio of photographer Cara Romero, for an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her practice.
Romero’s work merges Indigenous memory, lived experience, and modern storytelling through bold, theatrical, color-saturated imagery. During the tour, you’ll see her remarkable collection of props, gain insight into her set-building process, and hear how she constructs the layered tableaus that have defined her career.
“As an Indigenous photographer, I embrace photography as my tool to resist Eurocentric narratives and as a means for opening audiences’ perspectives to the fascinating diversity of living Indigenous peoples. My approach fuses time-honored and culturally specific symbols with 21st-century ideas. This strategy reinforces the ways we exist as contemporary Native Americans, all the while affirming that Indigenous culture is continually evolving and imminently permanent.”
- Cara Romero
/ About
Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from a Native American female perspective.
Her work has been exhibited widely, with solo shows at the Hood Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, and the Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art. It is also held in major collections including the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), LACMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
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