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Cara Romero

January 18 – August 10, 2025
Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)

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  • A young woman, wearing a lei hīpuʻu and head lei and dressed in a white top and skirt, is underwater with her eyes open staring at the camera and her hands are covering her mouth. It is a black and white image.

    Cara Romero, Ha'ina 'ia mai, 2024, archival pigment print. © Cara Romero

About

Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) explores the narrative artistic practice of Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero. Spanning the past decade of her work, this exhibition presents a thematic examination of Romero's complex and layered images, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. Accompanied by a catalogue of the same title and debuting at the Hood Museum in January 2025, this is Romero's first major solo exhibition.

This exhibition is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously supported by leadership gifts from Claire Foerster and Daniel S. Bernstein '87 and Thomas A. Russo '77 and Georgina T. Russo '77, and with support from the Charles Gilman Family Endowment and a gift from Karen Miller Nearburg and Charles Nearburg '72.

Exhibition Curator

Jami C. Powell

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Press Kit (Press Release, Images, Image captions)

 

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Two figures submerged in water.
Cara Romero, "Water Memory," 2015, archival pigment print on Canson Legacy Platine Photo Paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased with a gift from the Douglas Wise '59 Memorial Arts Fund; 2020.38.1. © Cara Romero

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A figure sumerged beneath an oil rig.
Cara Romero, "Oil Bloom," 2015, archival pigment print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Sondra and Charles Gilman, Jr. Foundation Fund; 2019.78.2. © Cara Romero

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Figure sits on the ground as they throw their head back to create a fan of hair.
Cara Romero, "KAA," 2017, archival pigment print on fine art matte paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Sondra and Charles Gilman, Jr. Foundation Fund; 2019.78.1. © Cara Romero

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Several figures arranged around stacked TVs face the viewer.
Cara Romero, "TV Indians," 2017, archival inkjet print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation Fund; 2017.46. © Cara Romero

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Three blue figures with wires connected to them sit together in blue room.
Cara Romero, "3 Sisters," 2022, archival pigment print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Acquisition and Preservation of Native American Art Fund; 2022.47.2. © Cara Romero

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Four figures cross a road.
Cara Romero, "17 Mile Road," 2019, archival pigment print on Canson Legacy Platine Photo Paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased with a gift from the Douglas Wise '59 Memorial Arts Fund; 2020.38.2. © Cara Romero

Press Mentions

Exhibition subject: Modern & Contemporary ArtNative America