Gala 2025 Auction Lot 5: Diego Romero

Diego Romero
Born Berkley, CA 1964
Pueb Fiction, 2020
2 color lithograph on paper, 23 ½ × 20 ½ inches

Edition 40/40 | Publisher: Black Rock Press

Value: $2,025

Courtesy of Ray Griffin & Thom Robinson

Framing courtesy of Frugal Framer

Diego Romero is a third-generation Cochiti Pueblo artist who specializes in pottery and printmaking. Romero's practice marries Cochiti Pueblo traditions with his love of comic books, superheroes, mythology and pop culture. Across mediums, Romero's narratives combine humor and biting social commentary that suggest messages about contemporary Native American life related to Native politics, history, identity, war, and alcoholism. Romero attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before earning his BFA at Otis Parsons School of Design and his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles .He studied ceramics under distinguished pottery masters Otellie Loloma, Ralph Bacerra, and Adrian Saxe. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in numerous public collections including the Asheville Art Museum; the British Museum (London); the Cartier Foundation; the Denver Art Museum; the Heard Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); the National Museum of the American Indian; New Mexico Museum of Art; and the Peabody Essex Museum. The artist is married to photographer Cara Romero and the couple live in Santa Fe.