Sonia Romero


Sonia Amalia Romero is an American artist, she is known for her printmaking, mixed media linocut prints, murals, and public art based in Los Angeles. She is known for depicting Los Angeles, Latin American imagery, and Chicano themes in her work.
Romero has had artwork commissioned by the Los Angeles County Art Commission, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She is known for straddling the world of both fine art and public art, as her prints are often exhibited in galleries and she collaborates with civic organizations in producing public art, such as the public pool murals created with the Los Angeles Conservation Corp.
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Biography

Sonia Romero was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are artists, Nancy and Frank Romero, and she is the granddaughter of Frank S. Wyle and Edith R. Wyle, founders of the Craft and Folk Art Museum and Wyle Laboratories. She is of Russian–Jewish descent on her mother's side and Mexican and Spanish descent on her father's side.
Romero is a graduate of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2002, where she studied printmaking. Her first solo show was in September 2006 at the Avenue 50 Studio, where she exhibited paintings, prints and mixed media especially block printing. Since then, she has been highly recognizable for her public artwork, such as the mosaic print installation at the MacArthur Park Metro Station.
From 2007 until 2014, she was artist-in-residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park.
Her work is included in the permanent collection at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.

Art

Romero's work is known for its clear crisp lines, use of iconography, and reflection of life in Los Angeles. Much of Romero's work is made in Los Angeles, embedded in, and reflects the city. She has stated in interviews that as a student she was drawn to printmaking because of its potential for mass communication, through the built-in ability for multiplying designs. Her work is considered part of the serigraph tradition. Her work integrates symbols associated with Chicano, Latino, and Hispanic cultures, but often also addresses contemporary issues. For instance, her 2014 piece, Bee Pile, included in the Estampas de la Raza exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art, brought together iconography from her ethnic background with mediations of honey bees to draw attention to Colony Collapse Disorder.
Dambrot of KCET, describes Romero's latest ongoing print series, "Revolving Landscape" as:
Romero is also considered a favorite artist among the "indie art" community, with a popular Etsy store, She Rides the Lion, where she previously sold her prints.

Notable works

A select list of notable work by Romero, listed by ascending date.Lady Artesia, 2017, ceramic tile mural, located at Artesia Library, Artesia, CaliforniaThey Fly Through the Water, 2014, located at Belvedere Pool, East Los Angeles, CaliforniaBee Pile, 2014, this was a site specific installation located at Figueroa Produce, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CaliforniaFall, 2012, collagraph printInner Landscape, 2011, silk screen, The Buck Collection at UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, University of California, Irvine
  • * Sonia Romero studied yoga and meditation which influenced her to create this self portrait. This work portrays the transition from looking at outwardly sources for inspiration into looking inside yourself for inspiration. By closing your eyes, you are able to find information in your body that you can find in the outside world.Urban Oasis, 2010, ceramic tile mural, located at MacArthur Park Metro Station, Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Water Cycle: Eternal Flow / El Ciclo Del Agua: Eterno Manantial, 2008, City Terrace Park Pool, Los Angeles, California

Exhibitions

A select list of exhibitions.