VASE lecture: Cara Romero

December 2, 2026

Venue:
Center for Creative Photography
Start Time:
5:30PM

Renowned artist/photographer Cara Romero will give a career-spanning talk about the making of a contemporary Native American artist — from her training at the Institute of American Indian Arts to founding the Cara Romero Gallery and Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Her lecture is the second of the 2026-27 Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowment (VASE) series.

Romero is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe. Her work — held in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA — moves fluidly between fine art, documentary and cinematic staged photography, grounded in Chemehuevi epistemology, traditional ecological knowledge, and Indigenous futurism.

Cara Romero: Water Memory, 2015
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