Pedro G. Romero (Aracena, 1964) got his start as an artist in 1985. He participated in UNIA arteypensamiento and the PRPC (Platform for the Development of Cultural Policies) in Seville. He became a resident artist at the Spanish Academy in Rome and was a participant artist for Documenta14 Atenas/Kassel.
He directed the Independent Platform for Modern and Contemporary Flamenco Studies (pie.flamenca).
He is the director of the collection Flamenco y cultura popular, published by Athenaica. Between 1999 and 2019 he worked in two big installations: Archivo F.X. (about imagery and iconoclasm) and Máquina P.H. (about flamenco and popular culture). With Archivo F.X. he presented his own exhibition at the Fundació La Caixa or Fundacio Tápies in Barcelona, at the MNCARS orl Ca2m in Madrid, the Kunstvereim in Stuttgart, as well as collaborations for the Sao Paulo Biennal, the Bergen Assembly in Norway or the above mentioned Noruega Documenta in Kassel.
He’s worked with dancer Israel Galván for Máquina P.H. since 1998, and continued to collaborate making the installations for artists like Rocío Márquez, Niño de Elche or Tomás de Perrate, among others. He was the curator for the project Ocaña. Acciones, actuaciones, activismo 1973-1983, for the Virreina center in Barcelona and the Centro de Arte Montehermoso in Vitoria. His book Exaltación de la visión sobre el cine de Val del Omar was published by Mudito & Co. , and the compilation El ojo partido. Flamenco, cultura de masas y vanguardia was published by Athenaica Ediciones. Currently, he is presenting alongside the architect María García the project Máquinas de Vivir. Flamenco y arquitectura en la ocupación y desocupación de espacios, which has been shown at the Centro/Centro in Madrid and the Virreina center in Barcelona. Between 2018 and 2019, he developed across Europe the project forma-de-vida, about work and art in flamenco artists, gypsies and romanies, for the Bergen Assembly in Norway and the Kunstvereim in Stuttgart. His work Las sabias was the image chosen for the XX Flamenco Biennial in Seville. He is currently directing the film Nueve Sevillas with Gonzalo García Pelayo, which he also wrote.
With Úrsula López, Tamara López and Leonor Leal he did J.R.T. about Julio Romero de Torres, a painter and flamenco artist, for Seville´s Flamenco Biennal –where Rosalía made her debut– and the Jerez’s Flamenco Festival.