Artist Statement

Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid with a specialty in Design, she completed her studies at the Open University of Catalonia in Digital Art and Culture Innovation and in various subsequent courses: University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins and the International Center for photography and EFTI cinema in Madrid.

Recently published by Create! Magazine and Semifinalist in the ARTBOX contest. PROJECT New York 1.0 (By ARTBOX.GALLERY Switzerland), has more selections in awards such as "City of Palencia of Artistic Creation (Spain) or by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Our Lady of Rosario (A Coruña, Spain)". He has participated in numerous international fairs, such as Paris, Madrid, Hamburg, Istanbul and Stockholm among others. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries from London, Mexico, EEUU, Spain, Alaska, Ecuador, Brazil, and Buenos Aires or Quebec.

Laura Romero is a multidisciplinary artist who comes from painting and who throughout her career began to develop in other fields such as photography, installation, ceramic sculpture and engraving. It should be noted that in his last years he has experimented with the photographic image on supports such as cement, stone or brick.

Eight years ago he moved to Mexico and has been working closely with the city, as a self-portrait , from the concepts of migration and living. The artist questions the territory in which she lives and builds a new identity with a view to the unknown and the new, to find herself in what was in front. Inhabiting is made up of accumulated experiences and sensations. According to Laura, there is no better way to perceive the transformation of a space and, with it, our perception of it, than by remembering the moments lived, the sensory perceptions, the interaction and the relationship with that space.

In her work, the artist wants to provoke a second look, a reflection on everything that at first glance passes us by without our realizing it.

Individual exhibitions

2022 | “Intervalos”, Sangremal Gallery (Mexico)
2022 | “Memoroy of a space and a time”, Contemporary Art Museum of Querétaro, MACQ (Mexico)
2011 | “Anudados” (knotted), Centre d´art La Real (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2008 | Main Hall at the Toledo Art Circle (Toledo, Spain)
2008 | International Artists Meetup NEXO (Toledo, Spain)
2008 | Sol y Bartolomé Gallery (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2007 | Centre d´art La Real (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2007 | “Lalola”, organized by the Madrid Community on behalf of the contracultural movement Movida Madrileña conmemoration (Madrid, Spain)
2006 | La Nave del Arte (Madrid, Spain)

Collective exhibitions
2023 | “Exploring Media” En Blanco Gallery (San José del Cabo, Mexico) 2023 | “The same but different” Yadite Gallery by #NY4CPA, (NY, USA)
2023 | “Garden Books” Fare Libri, Palazzo dei Musei (Reggio Emilia, Italia)
2023 | “Postal Artist Books”(Basel, Swiss)
2022 | “Art Through The Lens” Paducah Summer Festival Photo Competition, Yeiser Art Center (Kentucky, USA)
2022 | “#Sinergética” Entorno humano, Museo de Arte de Querétaro, MAQRO (Querétaro, Mexico)
2022 | “ARTE EN LA RED”, Casa de América (Madrid, Spain)
2021 | Postal Artist Books Project. Galeria multidisciplinaria del COCOA, USFQ (Quito / Ecuador)
2021 | Gaudi Gallery (Madrid, Spain)
2021 | Remain, Complices Space (Madrid, España)
2021 | CoHause (Querétaro, México)
2021 | Postal Artist Books Project Exhibition. Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (São Paulo, Brazil)
2021 | Eka Moor Gallery (Madrid, España)
2020 | Matadero Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2020 | Supergráfico 20 Festival “#piedrafanzinetijera” (Madrid, Spain)
2020 | “Encuentro de imagen MMXX. New documentalisms. Intervals”. Bernardo Quintana Art Center. (Querétaro, Mexico)
2020 | “XXXIX Muestra Internacional y multidisciplinar de Arte Contemporáneo Circuit Artístic” Sala Pere Casaldaliga de la Claret y en Circuit Artístic. Barcelona. (Spain)
2020 | Imágenes en tiempo real. Cuarentena. Centro Cultural Clavijero. Morelia, México.
2019 | “The city inhabits me” (Querétaro, Mexico)
2019 | Gaudi Gallery (Madrid, Spain)
2019 | “The English Channel” Herrick Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
2017 | “Escenarios Habituales” (Everyday Scenarios), Caminarte Gallery (Querétaro, Mexico)
2012 | “Proyecto Autorretratos” (Self-portrait Project), Fine Arts Castilla La Mancha (Cuenca, Spain)
2012 | “Proyecto Autorretratos” (Self-portrait Project), Out North Gallery (Anchorage, Alaska)
2011 | “Proyecto Autorretratos” (Self-portrait Project), Maison de la Culture/Expo-centre Raymond-Lasnier (Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada)
2010 “Fitting Room”, Hotel Petit Palace Art Gallery (Madrid, Spain)
2009 “Five points”, Centre d´art La Real (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2008 Artmoda 2008 Centre d´art La Real (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2008 | Sol y Bartolomé Galery (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2007 | Felicia Hall Galery(Granada, Spain)
2007 |"La Colmena" (the beehive) Project, directed by Anamaría McCarthy (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2007 | Tercera parte del Proyecto “Autorretratos” (Self-portrait Project – part III), directed by Alicia Candiani (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2007 | Artmoda 2007, Centre d´art La Real (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2007 | Sol y Bartolomé Galery (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2007 | Navacerrada Municipality Hall (Madrid, Spain)
2006 | Pontedeume Municipality Hall (La Coruña, Spain)
2006 | May Moré Galery (Madrid, Spain)
2003 | Alameda Galery (Vigo, Spain)

Awards

2018 | Semifinalist at ARTBOX contest. PROJECT New York 1.0 (Por ARTBOX.GALLERY Suiza)
2006 | “Hugo Urban Art 2006” Prize nominee
2006 | “Ciudad de Palencia de Creación Artística 2006” Prize nominee
2006 | “Woodsuch project. WOODNESS-SAKE” Prize nominee
2006 | “Talento de la semana” (Young talent of the week) at EP3 (“El País” Newspaper)
2003 | Caixa Galicia Foundation Prize, A Coruña. Selected work by the Fine Arts Royal Academy of Nuestra Señora del Rosario.

Participation in Art Fairs
2023 | ART BAJA CALIFORNIA (Mexico)
2023 | ZONA MACO Iternational Art Fair (México)
2021 | Art Book Fair Castilla y León (España)
2021 | Equinox
2021 | Festiarte Marbella (Málaga, Spain)
2020 | Enfoque Querétaro, (Mexico)
2013 | jäälphoto (Madrid)
2013 | New Art Fair Paris (París)
2012 | The 16th European Contemporary Art Fair in Strasbourg (Strasbourg)
2012 | Room Art Fair (Madrid)
2012 | Affordable Art Fair (Hamburg)
2012 | Affordable Art Fair (Stocholm)
2011 | Room Art Fair (Madrid)
2009 | Art Madrid (Madrid)
2008 | Contemporary Istanbul (Istanbul)
2008 | Art Madrid (Madrid)
2007 | International Contemporary Art Fair, ART JAM MALLORCA 2007

Artistic residencies

2023 | Seminario Huellas (Spain)
2021 | Arquetopia residence Oaxaca (México)
2020 | Proyecto ´ace, “Nido”
2020 | Laboratorio de Imagen. UAQ University, New Documentalisms, Querétaro, México
2019 | Laboratorio de Imagen, UAQ University, the city inhabits me, Querétaro, México
2008 | NEXO, Toledo, España
2007 | Proyecto ´ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Artworks

Intervals

I have been working with the city for several years. Questioning the territory in which I live and building a new identity, my identity.

This cities with which I work represent the mirror as an image of the reflection on one´s own identity. This duality between Narciso and the Vampire of which Fontcubert speaks about in his book “The Kiss of Judas: photography and truth” “someone pursues the reflection of the one he lacks”. We are in a constant paradox searching for ourselves. The horizon of the utopia is the one being. An none horizon. We are intervals. The counterpoint between what we think we are and what we should be. There is no up or down. Symmetry breaks, colors invade one and other. In these collages there is an attempt to reframe and recompose our thousand facades.

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