Romi Studio is the peripatetic curatorial and artistic practice of Romina Jiménez de Barba. Founded in 2021, it operates as a project-based platform dedicated to supporting multidisciplinary artists through experimental exhibitions, digital tools, and critical dialogue within the broader art system.
Originally conceived as a way to reconnect with her Chilean roots and to foreground the richness of Latin American contemporary art, the practice has since expanded to collaborate with artists across geographies and disciplines who challenge the boundaries of form, technology, and conceptual practice.
A defining aspect of Romi Studio’s ethos is its commitment to transdisciplinary artists: individuals who sustain rigorous professional lives outside the traditional art system. These include scientists, athletes, coders, chefs, and educators, whose external disciplines actively inform and sharpen their artistic production. In this context, art is not isolated but emerges as part of a broader intellectual and lived practice.
Romi Studio extends this philosophy through active partnerships with spaces beyond conventional art venues, including laboratories, athletic facilities, schools, and public environments. This decentralized, site-responsive approach invites new audiences into contemporary art, fostering encounters that are often more direct, embodied, and sustained.
Untethered to a fixed visual identity, the practice moves fluidly across contexts, adapting to the conditions of each collaboration. It engages artists at pivotal moments in their careers, supporting the development of professional frameworks such as exhibition-making, inventory management, and long-term relationship building with curators, collectors, and institutions.
Romi Studio creates space—physical, digital, and conceptual—for artists who challenge the structures of the art system and reimagine the possibilities of contemporary practice.
Romina "Aurora" Jiménez de Barba is a New York-based curator, artist, and arts professional. Born in Santiago, Chile and raised in the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., she moved to New York City in 2014 to attend Barnard College at Columbia University, where she earned her degree in Economics and Social History. Her interdisciplinary interests led her to study painting and drawing alongside her academic coursework.
In 2020, Romina relocated to Paris to continue her studies at the Louvre, a formative chapter that ignited a series of international experiences. Over the next two years, she lived and worked across Santiago, Mexico City, Oslo, Rome, and Berlin—encounters that deeply shaped her global approach to contemporary art.
Romina has worked across multiple sectors of the art system—including blue-chip galleries, art advisories, and international art fairs—and brings a multidisciplinary perspective to everything she does. As an arts professional, she wears many many different and colorful hats.
She is the founder and director of Romi Studio, a nomadic curatorial platform dedicated to multi- and transdisciplinary artists. The studio creates experimental exhibitions and brings art into public and unexpected spaces—especially those outside the traditional art system. Romina currently operates an appointment-only viewing salon in Brooklyn and continues to build a network of artists, collectors, and institutions through collaboration, conversation, and curiosity.
