About

René Romero Schuler was born in 1968 and raised by her Ecuadorian grandparents in Quito and Chicago.

Legendary nightclub designer Ray Paseka mentored Schuler, and she quickly became his chief muralist responsible for working on a wide range of site-specific projects and mastering the artistry of trompe l’oeil, fresco, encaustic and oil painting. Many of these early works still remain in their original Chicago venues.

In 1991 she formed Romero Design, a fine art gallery dedicated to contemporary art rooted in traditional artisan processes. The gallery showed the work of several local and national artists, as well as her own work.

Her work has been compared to that of Jean Dubuffet, Willem DeKooning, and Nathan Oliveira. Her paintings of abstracted figures or constructed spaces, executed in thick impastos, resonate in richly layered and deep tones in three dimensions. Schuler’s paintings are literally “sculpted” out of oil with a palette knife. The content, human figures or their landscapes, are deconstructed of their specificity and speak to more universal and visceral reality.

Schuler taught painting at Illinois Institute of Art and Chicago City Colleges, and has lectured at Northwestern University. Her work is widely exhibited internationally, with current representation in Paris, Chicago, Miami, Palm Beach, Indianapolis, and Traverse City.

René Romero Schuler | 312.952.3005 | rene@reneschuler.com | www.reneschuler.com