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Gisela Romero is an American Venezuelan Visual Artist born in Caracas, living and working in Orlando, Florida. Her focus is on drawing in multiple formats and surfaces. 

Romero has a master’s degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honors from the California College of Arts, Oakland, CA.

With over 30 years of experience, Romero has been communicating and teaching visual ideas through mixed media with a basis in Drawing as a medium for creating art. 

Since 1992 she has been combining images and words to give the drawings a narrative dimension. She has been making art in public spaces with drawings and prints to parallel this narrative.

Through mixed media drawing installations, Gisela Romero investigates the connection of memories, stories and emotions, inviting the viewer to think and feel about their own life.

Gisela Romero presented at the Art & History Museums of Maitland her last solo show called “A Constant Goodbye” a body of work that reflects the issue of immigration. Metaphorically, a household object that serves as a surface such as a table runner, and using fabrics bought in thrift stores that bear traces, shapes, patterns, and stains of other people, she imagines stories of immigrants using the table runners as inspiration for short stories and in turn, the short stories as an inspiration for her drawings.

In 2025, Romero will have a solo show at the Alt_Space Art Gallery in New Smyrna Beach, FL in March and a solo show at the Chambers, Orange County, in September.

Romero has been awarded the 2022-24 Artist-in-Action, (AiA) Residency from the Art and History Museums of Maitland, Florida, the 2024 Residency at Sparks the Arts, United Arts of Central Florida, the Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant from South Arts Organization, the Individual Artist Grant from United Arts of Central Florida, and she won First Place in the Women in the Arts Competition: Celebrating the Genius of Women.

Gisela Romero's work not only shows her technical skills but also her ability to connect art with human experiences, making her a significant figure in the contemporary art scene in Central Florida, especially in the realm of drawing and installation art.