Hector G Romero

Hector G. Romero

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.hectorgromero.art                                                          Resume

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EDUCATION:

MFA    1994    Painting/Drawing    University of California, Los Angeles 

BFA     1990    Painting             University of Texas at El Paso

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 

2013-Present Adjunct Faculty El Paso Community College Art Department

2012-Present  Part-Time Lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso

2001-2011  Manager Art Department, Strand Book Store, New York, NY 

                   (Priced and evaluated private libraries.  Met with publishers to 

                    order new Art titles for department) 

1996-2001  Sales Associate for Hacker Arts Book, NYC

1992-1994  Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles

                   (Beginning Painting, Advanced Painting, Advanced Drawing, 

                   Senior Studio) 

1992           Artist’s Assistant, Nancy Rubin, Los Angeles, CA.

         (Installation of Sculpture for exhibition Helter Skelter;

                   LA Art in the 1990’s) 

1992           Studio Assistant, Charles Ray, Los Angeles, CA. 

1991         Studio Assistant, Don Suggs, Los Angeles, CA. 

AWARDS: 

1994        Wight Gallery Arts Council Award, University of California, Los Angeles

1993        Chancellor’s Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, 

                 Los Angeles

1992        Chancellor’s Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, 

                 Los Angeles 

1992        Wight Gallery Arts Council Award, University of California, Los Angeles 

EXHIBITIONS: 

SOLO

2022    Keeping On, New Paintings, Alameda Art + Salvage, El Paso TX

1999    The Beginning of Pleasure, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1998   Popular in Japan, Works on Paper, Gallery Spark, New York, NY

1997    Works on Paper, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside

1990    Hector Romero: Paintings, Lincoln Art Center, El Paso, TX 

1990    BFA Exhibit, Glass Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

GROUP

2022-23  The Portfolio Project, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ 

2013-24   Faculty Exhibitions, University of Texas at El Paso and EPCC

2014   Automatic Systematic, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ 

2011    Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2009    Beauty Marks and Body Parts, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY

2006    Immodesty, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA

2006    Group Show, House Works, Brooklyn, NY

2004    Martinez, Munoz, Reveles, and Romero: Current Works by 

            UTEP Graduates, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual

             Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

2003      A(KIN),  Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003      EPIC, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ

2002     Wonderworlds, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ

2000     Legal Size, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA 

1999    In Limine, Exhibit A Gallery, New York, NY

1999    Flat Filing, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999    Where Are You Now?, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 

            Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

1999    The New Romance, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999    Blue Print, Gallery Spark, New York, NY

1994    MA/MFA Exhibition, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles

1994    The Hot Crop, Claremont College, Claremont, CA

1993    Deosil Drawings, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA

1991    L’Assoluto Naturale, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Bibliography 

1994        MA/MFA Thesis Exhibition, Catalogue, University of California 

                Los Angeles,
1994        Blue Print,    Gallery Spark, New York, NY.  Group Exhibition Catalogue, 

             
1999         Hector G. Romero; Last Coast Blues, Victory Hall Press, 

                  Jersey City, NJ. 2011