A M A N D A D A N N Á E R O M E R O
Amanda Dannáe Romero (she/they) is a queer hispanx experimental artist and musician based in Albuquerque, NM. She was born and raised in Santa Fe, NM. Her work incorporates sound, coding, colcha embroidery, tinsmithing, writing, video, photography, social practice, and performance. Her work focuses on the interconnectivity between humans and environments, and she weaves technology and traditional art practices together in large-scale sound and video pieces and performances.
Romero received a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in 2022. They received the award for Best Graduate Institute Liberal Arts Essay for her preceptorial essay titled “To Articulate the Inarticulable: An Exploration of the Magnitude of Music in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man”. She is also an educator and curator and a founding member of Fourteenfifteen Gallery and the L.o.A. Artist Collective. The L.o.A. Collective offers self-funded community arts programming and exhibition spaces at both Fourteenfifteen Gallery and ALPACA in the historic Barelas neighborhood in Albuquerque. She also does social programming work out of her studio at Sanitary Tortilla Factory which involves teaching art at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque and working with community members and the incarcerated population on abolition and social justice projects.
She plays drums and guitar in a number of local bands, including Karen and Show Pony, and plays solo as Madrina. They have exhibited both nationally and internationally and were selected as one of four Borderlands Artists-in-Residence by the City of Albuquerque and the Artists at Work Initiative in conjunction with THE OFFICE Performing Arts + Film in New York.