Foto tomada por Brignoni Photography. 2026
BIO en Español:
Diego Romero es un artista multidisciplinario puertorriqueño cuya práctica integra muralismo, retrato, pirografía en madera e intervención de objetos encontrados para explorar la memoria colectiva, la colaboración comunitaria y la reinvención cultural en el Caribe. A través de panderos, paredes y materiales cotidianos, activa símbolos que funcionan como archivos vivos de identidad. Su uso de la pirografía revela la materialidad de la madera como superficie viva, celebrando identidades indígenas y saberes ancestrales, en diálogo con su experiencia en pintura escenográfica cinematográfica. Su enfoque se alinea con prácticas de Allora & Calzadilla, Teresa Margolles y Minerva Cuevas.
Su trabajo forma parte de la colección del Congreso de los Estados Unidos con la obra Eñglish. Ha exhibido en Puerto Rico y Canadá, incluyendo Exterior en El Cuadrado Gris, y co-curó Tirijala en Montreal. Ha desarrollado murales en América y Asia del Oeste, y participado en proyectos comunitarios en Puerto Rico y Chiapas. Entre 2005 y 2022 trabajó en cine, destacándose como director de la unidad de Puerto Rico en Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, además de colaborar en Fast & Furious 5 y la serie Homeland, experiencia que continúa informando su investigación visual actual.
Diego romero martinez
Visual Artist · Muralist · Art Director · Composer · Vocalist
Mural | Exhibition | Music | Tour | Studio | Film
EDUCATION
2011
Art, Communication and Society
Bachelor’s Degree
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2020
Services Grant · Centro de Economía Creativa
Nido Cultural and Fondo Flamboyán para las Artes · $2,000
COLLECTIONS
2017
Eñglish
United States Congress, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED COMMISSIONS & PUBLIC ART
2025
Mural for Critical Thinking · Residencial Manuel A. Pérez
Collaboration with Don Rimx & Son · San Juan, Puerto Rico
2020
September
Front cover for NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America), Report on the Americas (Fall Issue). Routledge. New York
August
Premiere of Una Voz (Official Video)
Launch of single “Una Voz” Remix feat. Lourdes Naomi
June
Launch of single “Llamada Perdida”
May
Debut as solo artist & launch of first single “Una Voz”
Lead Vocals for Puya at FB Live. Produced by 71 Associates
March
Solo project virtual concert through Musicasa plattform
February
Launch of single “Viento” (Puya)
Lead vocals for Puya band performance. Tattoo Music Fest. Bogotá, Colombia
2019
Front cover & back cover illustration for Miguel Zenón Latin Jazz album “Sonero”
Launch of single “Súbele la Candela” (Puya)
2018
Lead vocals for Puya band performance. Viva La Rock Fest. Quebradillas, PR
Puya’s 2018-2020 line-up (from right to left): Harold Hopkins, Ramon Ortiz, Eduardo Paniagua & Diego Romero
2016
Director and Designer of Mural of the Three Kings on Juana Díaz bridge, part of on-going intensive workshop of Muralism with group of six prisoners from various prisons in Puerto Rico.
http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/estrenanmuraldelostresreyesmagosenjuanadiaz-2147055/
2015
Homage portrait for Raphy Leavitt. Mural on wood in the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan
Muralism workshop for prisoners for Bayamón Correctional Complex. Murals in prison entry 408 (Feb) and Convention Center and Public Transportation Terminal, Cataño (May)
http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/confinadosserehabilitanmientraspintanmural-2043326/
2014
Muralism workshop with eight students at Central High School of Visual Arts, Santurce. Mural in #176 y #177 Rd., Cupey, SJ
Memorial mural of Cheo Feliciano in Velatory, CRC, SJ
2013
Tribute Mural to Tuto Marchand and other Puerto Rican basketball players, Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan
2012
Assistant and illustrator of archaeological research at Ingenio Azucarero Vives, Guayama
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Exterior / solo show (Paintings, drawings, ready-mades and installations) @ El Cuadrado Gris, Bo. Obero, PR
September 15, 2018
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2017
Citi100
Collective of 100 Puerto Rican artists reflecting on the conmemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Jones Act. First shown at Clemente Soto Velez Center, Lower East Side, New York. Piece: “El bombon de ELA”
2016
Por la libre
Collective show presenting all generations of contemporary artists in Puerto RIco. Casa Zapater, Ponce, PR
Argentinian Week
Gathering of diverse Latin-American artists to celebrate Argentinian and the Latin diaspora in Philadelphia at City Hall and School District
Una Sola Voz (One Voice)
Exhibition for the excaceration of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera
The Clemente Soto Center, NYC / Jun.-Jul.
Semilla Arts Gallery, Philadelphia / Jul.-Aug.
The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, Chicago / Aug.-Sep.
Vince Lombardi Center, Newark / Sep.
Municipal Hall, San Sebastian, Puerto Rico / Nov
2014
Shadows of the Knight
Collective Exhibition dedicated to the legend of Batman at ArtLab Gallery, Santurce, PR
Feria de Cultura Urbana (Urban Culture Art Fair) 2014
Large scale painting, Rio Piedras Station, San Juan, PR
2013
Face the Music
Collective exhibition dedicated to music and it's performers at La Respuesta, San Juan, PR
2008
Tirijala
Puerto Rican artists collective at Montreal, Canada. Murals and exhibition in Ctrllab Gallery.
Portrait in front of Mural of The three kings of Juana Díaz. Photographed by Jesús González. 2016
English BIO:
Diego Romero is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist whose practice integrates muralism, portraiture, wood pyrography, and found-object intervention to explore collective memory, community collaboration, and cultural reinvention in the Caribbean. Through panderos, walls, and everyday materials, he activates symbols that function as living archives of identity, while his use of pyrography reveals the materiality of wood as a living surface, engaging ancestral knowledge systems and indigenous identities in dialogue with his experience in cinematic scenic painting. His approach resonates with the practices of Allora & Calzadilla, Teresa Margolles, and Minerva Cuevas.
His work is part of the collection of the United States Congress through the piece Eñglish, and he has exhibited in Puerto Rico and Canada, including Exterior at El Cuadrado Gris, while co-curating Tirijala in Montréal. His mural practice extends across the Americas and West Asia, alongside community-based projects in Puerto Rico and Chiapas. Between 2005 and 2022, he worked in film production, notably serving as Paint Department Director for the Puerto Rico unit of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and contributing to Fast & Furious 5 and the series Homeland, experience that continues to inform his current visual research.