Photo credits: Martin Seck
“My practice explores the ideas of memory and value as they relate to the larger structures that formed traditions of mourning and veneration. Rituals serve as archives, highlighting material culture and real word needs through petitions to the divine. Through my work, I create my own rituals, building an archive that is informed by Queer, Trans, and Latinx experience. I address systemic issues, such as, the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, anti-Queer discrimination, and colonialism through a research-based practice and the incorporation of personal narrative. My work takes the form of objects, performances, and installations that suggest ritual/spiritual purposes. These rituals serve as a space to both confront the networks of oppression that exist, while attempting to acknowledge the ancestral legacies that preceded us and heal collectively.”
gino romero (b. 1997 in Miami, Florida) holds an MFA Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and a BA in Studio Art from Florida State University. They are an ordained minister, an archivist, an educator, and they consider growing up Queer and Trans in predominantly Latinx spaces as part of their education.
Their work has been exhibited nationally at venues, including Phyllis Strauss Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts (Tallahassee), 621 Gallery, Also Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, SoMad Gallery, Rosekill Art Farm, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, and the Old Stone House. Their work is part of the collections at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cornell University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, University of Southern California (USC), University of Toronto, among others.