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Almudena Romero is a British/Spanish visual artist based in London and Valencia. Her practice uses photographic processes to reflect on issues relating to identity, representation and ideology. Romero’s works focus on how perception affects existence and how photography contributes to organising perception.
Romero’s practice has been exhibited at international public institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), National Portrait Gallery (UK), TATE Modern-TATE Exchange (UK), The Photographers’ Gallery (UK), Tsinghua Art Museum (CH), Le Cent-Quatre Paris (FR), University of the Arts London (UK) and international photography festivals such as Unseen Amsterdam (NL), Les Rencontres d’Arles (FR), Paris Photo (FR), PhotoLondon (UK), Circulations (FR), Belfast Photo Festival (UK) and Brighton Photo Biennale (UK). She has received grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Creative Europe Fund, Arts Council England (2018, 2020,2021), London Community Foundation (2019), a-n Bursaries (2019, 2018), and awards from private foundations such as the Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation, The Harnisch Foundation and BMW France Culture.
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Academic studies
2015 – Pg Cert Academic Practice in Art,Design & Communication, UAL (University teaching qualifications)
2012 – MA Photography, London College of Communication, UAL
2011 – Photojournalism & documentary photography, University of Montreal
2009 – BA Communication. Complutense University Madrid
Solo exhibitions
2022
-The Pigment Change. Studies on my grandma’s garden – TOBE Gallery / Budpest
2021
– The Pigment Change – BMW Residency – Paris Photo / Paris
– The Pigment Change – BMW Residency – Les Rencontres de la Photographie / Arles
2018
– Growing Concerns – RAW Labs. Bow Arts / London
– Portraits From the Elephant – Photography Archive and Research Center – UAL / London
Selected group exhibitions
2023
– Group show – Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Curated by Héloïse Conésa / Paris
– 1+2 Residency Group show – Chapelle des Cordeliers / Toulouse
– Commission exhibition organised by Fisheye Gallery – MaisonGuerlain / Paris
2022
– PPT Open Art Festival – Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras / Alicante
– with Land Art – Open Eye Gallery / Liverpool
2019
– Belfast Photo Festival – Golden Thread Gallery / Belfast
2018
– Vision and Reflection – Tsinghua Art Museum – Curated by Phillip Prodger / Beijing
– Festival Circulation(s) – Centquatre / Paris
2017
– Group show – The Photographers’ Gallery with London Alternative Photography Collective / London
– HYPERANALOGUE – The Photographers’ Gallery / London
– TATE Exchange – TATE Modern with Digital makers Collective / London
– New Approaches in Photography – Four Corners Gallery / London
– Diaspora Pavilion-Venice Biennale 2017 | Tintypes produced in collaboration with artist Khadija Saye – Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina / Venice
2016
– Participatory Artwork commission – Victoria and Albert Museum / London
– Participatory Artwork – Fundación MAPFRE Cultura / Madrid
– Brighton Photo Fringe – London Alternative Photography Collective / Brighton
– Process – DreamSpace Gallery / London
2014
– Open Peckham Platform – Peckham / London
– Night Contact – Brighton Photo Biennial / Brighton
– The Polaroid show – Doomed Gallery / London
– London Analogue Festival – OXO Tower Wharf / London
2012
– PHOTON Festival / Valencia
Presence in Art Fairs
2023
– Art & Antique – TOBE Gallery / Budapest
– MIA Milan Image Art Fair – TOBE Gallery / Milan
– Photo London – Fisheye Gallery / London
– Art Paris – Fisheye Gallery / Paris
– Art Taipei – V&E Art Gallery & Fisheye Gallery / Taiwan
2022
– Paris Photo – BMW Residency Laureates Retrospective / Paris
– Photo London – Fisheye Gallery / London
2021
– Photo London – Fisheye Gallery / London
2020
– London Art Fair – Nunnery Gallery / London
2018
– UNSEEN – CO-OP Space – London Alternative Photography / Amsterdam
Selected Awards, grants, residencies
2023
– Laboratory of Plants Microbes and Environment Interactions (LIPME) – 1+2 Residency
2022
– Louise Roeder Art Prize for Sustainability – Nominee
– ACAVA Studio Fund – Awardee
2021
– Arts Council England. DYCP grant – Awardee
– Emerging Photographer award Photo London – Finalist
– Prix Pictet – Nominee
– BMW Residency Program Paris – Residency
2020
– BMW Residency Award – Winner
– Arts Council England – C-19 Grants – Awardee
– The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation grants – Awardee
– ACAVA studio Fund – Awardee
– Royal Society of Chemistry Outreach Fund grants – Awardee
– The Harnisch Foundation grants – Awardee
2019
– Penumbra Foundation – Residency
– National Lottery Heritage Fund. Project Grants – Awardee
– i-Portunus. Creative Europe Fund – Awardee
– SPAIN arts & culture. Cultural Office. Embassy of Spain in USA – Awardee
– London Community Foundation grants – Awardee
– a-n Mentoring Bursaries – Awardee
2018
– National Portrait Gallery – Victoria Giants Exhibition Residency
– Arts Council England. National Lottery Project Grants – Awardee
– a-n Artist Bursaries – Awardee
2017
– Whitechapel Gallery – Residency
2016
– London Creative Network, professional development programme – Awardee
– Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum – Residency
2015
– The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards – Finalist
Publications
2023 – The Pigment Change (upcoming)
Works in collections
Fonds d’art contemporain – City of Paris Collection, France
BBC Four, UK.
BMW Art Collection, France.
Photography Archive and Research Centre. University of the Arts London, UK.
Bow Arts Trust, UK.
Lucy Art Residency, Greece.
Elizabeth and William Kahane Collection, USA.
Hans P Kraus Jr Fine Photographs Collection, USA.
Herve Digne Collection, France.
Almudena Legorreta Collection, USA.
Stephan Loewentheil Collection, USA.
Penumbra Foundation, USA.
Gabriela Cendoya-Bergareche Collection, France.
Jerome Kohler, The Philanthropic Lab, France.
