Tere Romo
Terezita “Tere” Romo is an art historian, curator, and affiliate faculty in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC, Davis. She has published extensively on Chicana/o art, most recently as a contributor to the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition catalog ¡Printing the Revolution: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (2020). She is the author of the artist monograph, Malaquias Montoya (2011), as well as the co-editor of Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (2019).
Romo has served as the chief curator at the Mexican Museum in San Francisco and the Arts Project Director at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. As an independent curator, she has organized numerous exhibitions, including Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican American Generation at the Autry National Museum (2011) in Los Angeles and Reframing Comunidad: The Art of Ester Hernandez and Shizu Saldamando at the National Museum of Mexican Art (2021). She is the co-curator of Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche at the Denver Art Museum (2022), which traveled to the Albuquerque Museum and San Antonio Museum of Art through 2022. She is currently organizing, RCAF in Mictlán: 50th Anniversary of Día de los Muertos at the Sacramento History Museum (2025) and Rebels With La Causa: Royal Chicano Air Force Art and Activism, 1970-1990 at the Crocker Art Museum (2026).
Image Credit: Photo courtesy of Tere Romo.