ABOUT

Alfredo Romero Campos was born in 1974 in Mollet del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. From an early age, his interest in art was evident, influenced by his family’s background in construction. His father owned a construction company in Barcelona, where Romero began working at a young age, becoming familiar with materials and building processes that would later deeply influence his artistic language.

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He studied Fine Arts, Interior Architecture, and Art History, a multidisciplinary education that shaped his ability to create dialogues between aesthetics, space, and memory. Throughout his career, he has worked as a professor of Interior Design, Visual Arts, and Window Dressing, and has participated as a lecturer in national and international conferences. He has been awarded in painting, interior design, and object art competitions, and his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America.

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Romero’s artistic practice spans painting, sculpture, film, and installation, reflecting a continuous exploration of materiality, memory, and transformation. One of his most distinctive techniques is strappo, used to detach and preserve layers of mural paintings—turning the remnants of time into new works of art. Through this process, he captures the essence of collective memory, preserving fragments of history that speak to urban identity and change.

His series “Vestiges of Our Times” stands as one of the most representative bodies of his work. In it, Romero rescues facades, signs, and deteriorated walls from neighborhoods in Mexico, preserving the identity and memory of urban spaces while reflecting on time as an artist in itself.

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He has exhibited in renowned institutions such as the Museum of the City of Mérida, the Morelense Museum of Contemporary Art (MMAC), the Centro Cultural Casa Principal (IVEC), and the Main Gallery of Teatro Peón Contreras, among others. He has also participated in international art fairs including the Atlanta Art Fair, Seattle Art Fair, Texas Contemporary Art Fair, LA Art Show, Palm Springs Art Fair, Pinta Miami, FIAART Monterrey, and Art MID Mérida.

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Romero has also explored the cinematic realm, with four documentaries to his name: Hombre Pintando (winner at Documenta Madrid 2008), The Essence of Absence (2010, directed by Eber García), Vestiges of Our Times (2017), and Desandar el Tiempo, Mediodía de México (2022, directed by César Andrade).

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Throughout his career, Alfredo Romero has established himself as a contemporary artist who transforms the trace of time into art, giving new life to the hidden histories embedded in the walls and cities we inhabit.