ARTIST: Mateo Romero (New Mexico, California, born 1966)
NAME: Indian Shawl
MEDIUM: acrylic over collage on board
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 16 x 12 inches / 40 x 30 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Mateo Romero is a Native American painter. He was born in Berkeley, California, and is a member of the Cochiti Pueblo.Mateo Romero was born on December 9, 1966. His father, Santiago Romero was a Southern Keresan Cochiti artist. His mother is Nellie Guth, a European-American. His father's mother, Teresita Chavez Romero, was a traditional ceramicist, known for her seated clay figurines and functional jars or ollas. Mateo's Indian name is He-tse-tewa or "War Shield.Romero attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire and studied under Varujan Boghosian and Frank Moss. He briefly attended the Institute of American Indian Arts. At the University Of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Romero earned his MFA Degree in printmaking.[1] At the School for Advanced Research, he furthered his painting techniques as a Dubin Fellow in 2002. In 2008, he was chosen to be the SWAIA Indian Market poster artist.Mateo began painting narrative scenes providing social commentary on contemporary Pueblo life. Subject matter for his paintings falls into four categories: "Addictions," "Indian Gaming," "Bonnie and Clyde," and "Voices at Wounded Knee," according to writer Gregory Schaaf, PhD. He moved towards mixed media and began working with historical photographs his "Dancers" series, which employs a technique he personally invented that incorporates asphalt into the surface.Romero's work was part of Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting (2019–21), a survey at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in New York.