Alejandro romero artist biography

Romero enrolled in 1967 at Mexico City's Academy of San Carlos, where his mother had studied before him.

Alejandro romero

In his four years at San Carlos, Romero came into contact with many of the giants of Mexican art—Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and Juan O'Gorman, among others. The greatest impact came from the politically radical muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, in whose workshop Romero studied in 1969 and 1970.

Romero told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that he was merely "an assistant to an assistant" to Siqueiros, but he had already met that master of Mexican social realism when he was six years old—Siqueiros patronized a pharmacy owned by Romero's maternal grandmother.

In the early 1970s Romero worked for an advertising agency, did freelance photography work, immersed himself in music, and took short art courses when he could; he studied in Paris, at the Art School of Vincennes, the Artists' Collective in Taos, New M