A graduate in Fine Arts, specialising in Painting, from the University of El Salvador, Antonio Romero is a multidisciplinary artist who combines his artistic activity with curatorial and cultural management work.

Antonio Romero’s artistic practice involves an effort to humanise and dignify the collective imagination around the anonymous. In this sense, Romero investigates the spectral scenario of impunity and trauma, highlighting elements of the interstice where the victim and the perpetrator meet, both behind a common character in a parody, enveloped by a sort of prosopon.

Through a powerful and attentive political debate, Romero’s work identifies these anonymous individuals as simultaneously being everyone and no one in particular. And, although they occupy the center, they are also articulated in two ways in the south and in the north, since they represent the power of capital, or rather, the incessant search for an absolute power, which is neither created nor destroyed, it only passes from one hand to another and is transformed. In the political sphere, the artist observes how this power manifests itself in all fields and in different spheres, governing a continent, in this case Latin America, which despite the failed promises of progress and pretense of modernity, lives the symptoms of perennial impoverishment and structural misery continuously reproduced.

Antonio Romero’s works have been exhibited in public and private institutions, such as: Museo de Antropología (San Salvador), Museo de Arte (MARTE – San Salvador), Fundación Rozas Botrán (Ciudad de Guatemala), The Americas Collection (Coral Gables), Centro Cultural de España (San Salvador), Teatro Presidente (San Salvador), Centro Cultural de México (San Salvador).

Furthermore, his work is included in international collections, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), Colección Mario Cader-Frech (Miami, United States), Poma Family Collection (Miami, United States), among others.