Biography
Ni de aqui, ni de allá (neither here, nor there), Proposing a third space where the boundaries of identity dissolve and something new begins."
Hugo Zelada-Romero is an interdisciplinary artist born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Zelada-Romero holds a BFA in photo media from Wichita State University. He has exhibited nationally, Mexico City, and internationally in print. His work considers notions of representation and perception in regards to information, identity and visual culture through lens-based media in a hybrid approach to art making, combining analog and digital practices and embracing the errors in translation inherent in this hybridity. His experiences as a first generation immigrant in the USA inform his artistic world view. Hugo is interested in the way in which images function as an expression of belief.
He currently works and resides in Chicago, IL
Upcoming and Recent Exhibitions:
2025 Solo
High Strangeness: Encounters with the Unexplained in Kansas and Beyond,
Salina Arts Center, Salina, KS : May 28- Aug 1st
2025 Group Shows
Miniotics, Weather Proof, Chicago, IL: March 13th- April 13th
One Bedroom Apt, Bogart Gallery, Kansas City, MO: March 1st - March 31st
Strange Mathematics, Soft Systems, Chicago, IL : February 28th
Survey, UNDA.M.93, Chicago, IL: February 9th - March 2nd
2024
Making Room, Feria Clandestina/United Colors, Miami Florida: Miami Art Week
100 Degrees, United Colors, Kansas City, KS
Llama(ra)das de Apareamiento, Harvester Arts, Wichita, KS
Nowhere is Elsewhere, Strawhouse Initiative, Wichita, KS
Prism Shift, City Arts, Wichita, KS