Natalie Romero is a media and performance artist, filmmaker, cultural producer, and educator based in New Jersey. Her experimental, transdisciplinary practice explores themes of ancestral memory, identity, and Afro-diasporic and Indigenous cosmologies. Migration movement, and decolonization are also topics that underpin her artistic, professional, and educational practice.
Natalie has worked and trained with legendary performance artists and scholars such as Guillermo Gomez Peña & La Pocha Nostra Radical Performance Art Troupe, Richard Schechner and with visionary choreographers nora chipaumire, Doug Elkins and the late David Gordon. She has collaborated with contemporary artists, multidisciplinary Melissa Flower Gladney, Darja Filippova, Sarah Berkeley, Katie Green, Dr. Yesenia Selier, and, most recently, abolitionist artist and activist jackie sumell.
Her work has been shown in galleries and artistic events such as The Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, The Screen Dance Festival at the PEREZ Art Museum in Miami, The Fridge Galery in Washington D.C, The Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts for Decolonizing/Re-indigenizing Media at Virginia Tech's American Indian and Indigenous Cultural Center, Hindsight Online Exhibition curated by Marginal Art Projects in New Orleans, The Gershwin Live Curated by Michael Wiener at Dixon Place Lounge, Princeton University Research Day, Exhibition "Latidos" at Fondazione Museo Pino Pascale and Festival Interstizi , Narrazioni di confine at Fondazione Oasi curated by La Maccina Sognante, in Italy.
Romero has been in residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute's Truth and Reconciliation Artistic Residency, The Double Edge Theatre's Creation Lab, The Gardenship Art In7 Experimental Video Art Residency, among others. Her collaborative performance interventions , Female Blood, and Transitions, have been part of the Emergency INDEX: an annual document of performance practice volumes 6 and 8, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in New York.
Natalie holds a BA in Directing and Production of Radio and Television from Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, an M.A. in Theatre from Montclair State University, and an MFA in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.