Diego Romero is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans muralism, portraiture, wood pyrography, and found-object intervention to interrogate collective memory, cultural reinvention, and the politics of identity in the Caribbean. Working across panderos, walls, and vernacular materials, he activates symbols as living archives — a methodological sensibility that aligns his work with the institutional and social critiques of Allora & Calzadilla, Teresa Margolles, and Minerva Cuevas. His pyrographic work engages wood as a sentient surface, drawing on indigenous knowledge systems and ancestral epistemologies inflected by a parallel career in cinematic scenic painting, most notably as Paint Department Director for the Puerto Rico unit of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, with additional credits on Fast & Furious 5 and Homeland. This sustained engagement with image-making at industrial scale continues to inform his visual research. Romero's work enters institutional collections through Eñglish, acquired by the United States Congress, and his exhibition history includes Exterior at El Cuadrado Gris in Puerto Rico, the co-curation of Tirijala in Montréal, and mural commissions across the Americas and West Asia, alongside long-term community-based projects in Puerto Rico and Chiapas.