Maria Teresa Romero

Place: Madrid

Born: 1930

Biography:

Teresa Romero, also known as Maria Teresa Romero, was born in Madrid, Spain in 1930. She is a Spanish painter and former archer. Romero was taught by Eduardo Peña and studied Fine Arts at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1981. She was a four-time archery champion of Spain and competed in the 1972 Summer Olympic Games. Romero's paintings La gitana and Mujer de rojo con guitarra won the Bienal Extremeña in 1963 and 1965 respectively. She started a painting school in 1979 in Badajoz, where she moved to in 1960. 51 of Romero's paintings were featured in an exhibition at the Badajoz Museum of Fine Arts in 2018, the first time the museum had an anthological exhibition dedicated to a woman.