Romina Gonzales (b. Lima, Peru, 1989) is a New York based interdisciplinary artist working towards the expansion of consciousness and creation of cultural capital from a post-colonial lens. Moving seamlessly between sculpture, printmaking and performance, she portrays gestures and narratives through material responses by questioning givens and offering alternative perspectives. She uses the intrinsic properties of materials to open up possibilities in understanding, seeing and believing. In the pursuit of collective healing, she finds applications for ancestral practices into the needs of our contemporary existence. Influences come from wellness, spirituality, science, and the dissonant narratives that uphold society. Works include intimate objects, large-scale architectural installations, interactive happenings and disparate syntaxes in written and spoken word.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, New York Post, New York Magazine, Remezcla, Hyperallergic, and included in the collections of The Museum of American Glass and Cooper Hewitt Museum. Exhibitions include Glass+A at Vitraria Museum in Venice, Italy, Terra/Derma at The Holland Tunnel Gallery in Newburgh NY and Flammable Statement No2 for the GMTF Film Festival at Northlands Creative in Scotland, The Museum of Arts and Design in NY & Toyama Institute of Glass Art. Presentations and lectures include Stanford University, Cornell University, Pratt Institute, Bard Graduate Center, Brooklyn Tech High School, University of Georgia, St. Francis College, Long Island University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and Bowling Green State University. Most recently she has been commissioned a public installation titled Finding the Window, currently on permanent display at the New York Hall of Science Museum in Queens, NY.