Diego Romero has built a career constructing ceramic vessels that elevate Pueblo life to Olympian stature. A member of the Cochiti Pueblo tribe, Romero has developed an extensive exhibition record since earning an MFA in 1993, with works housed in significant public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cartier Foundation, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the British Museum, the Scottish National Museum, and the Hood Museum (Dartmouth College). His studio is in Santa Fe, NM.

"I admire Diego's ability to seamlessly reference the ancient, such as Mimbres pottery and Greek mythology, while clearly creating contemporary ceramics. Diego's position in contemporary ceramics is completely unique and I am very excited that he will be a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth." —Jenny Swanson (director, Dartmouth's ceramics workshop)