Romero’s audio-visual installations merge sculpture, performance, nature recordings, and live plants to examine the properties of sound and its capacity to evoke or create memories. Through the lens of his Puerto Rican lineage and diasporic identity, he experiments with how sound looks and feels within the physicality of sculpture. Drawing inspiration from communication and sound production tools as well as wildlife, ancient artifacts and technologies, and Taíno petroglyphs, his work considers colonialist exploitation and its effects on the natural world. Romero’s work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, Locust Projects, the Denver Contemporary Art Museum, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, and Taller Puertorriqueño. Romero earned an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art and a BA in communications from the University of South Florida.
