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Cara Romero
Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
Born 1977, Inglewood, CA
Arla Lucia, 2020
Photogravure on BFK Rives paper
26 Ã- 18 inches
Printer: Jack Lemon
Publisher: Landfall Press Inc.

Value: $2,350

Cara Romero is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi Reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero's identity informs her work, a blend of fine art and editorial photography shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from a Native American female perspective. Employing contemporary photography techniques, she depicts the modernity of Native peoples illuminating Indigenous worldviews and aspects of supernaturalism in everyday life.

Romero's photography is represented in the Asheville Art Museum's collection and is currently on view in the exhibition Shifting Perceptions. Her work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.