Armando Romero (painter)

Armando Romero (born 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican painter.

Biography
Romero studied at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", in Mexico City. From 1991 to 1997, Romero taught sculpture, painting and art history at La Esmeralda. Additionally, from 1991 to 1993, Romero taught art history, design, and drawing at the College Center for Studies in Science and Communications in Mexico City, and also in 2002 taught painting at the School for Visual Arts in Michoacán, Mexico.

In 1998, Romero represented Mexico in the Emerging Artists of Latin America exhibition at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris, France, and in 2001 he lectured on sculpture and participated in the International Studio Program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in the United States.

A neoeclectic painter, Romero combines his versions of historic paintings by artists, such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, and Bosch, with irreverent contemporary images, allowing emotion and reason free range. Armando Romero, also sculptor, has brought to the forefront the Mexican art, the only painter who had a solo exhibition at Zona Maco in Mexico City.

Solo exhibitions

 * 2013  Inception Gallery, Paris
 * 2011  San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
 * 2011  NM Contemporaneo, Art Gallery, CAD Mexico City, Mexico
 * 2009  NM Contemporaneo, Art Gallery, Museum of Art of Querétaro, QRO, Mexico
 * 2007  Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood and La Jolla, CA
 * 2005  Galerie Morges, Switzerland, (also 2003 & 2001)
 * 2004  Casa Colon Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico (also 2002 & 2000)
 * 2004  Drexel Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
 * 2003  Morelia Cultural Center, Michoacan, Mexico
 * 2002  Loft 523, New Orleans, Louisiana
 * 2001  Macay Museum, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
 * 2001  Casa Colon Gallery, Miami, Florida
 * 2000  Sor Juana University, Mexico City