His father is Santiago Romero, a Cochiti Pueblo Indian, and his mother is Nellie Guth, a European-American born and raised in Berkeley.
[1] Diego was also raised in Berkeley, California,[2] and spent his childhood summers with his paternal grandparents at the pueblo in Cochiti, New Mexico.
[3] Raised in Berkeley, California, Diego Romero is a third-generation Cochiti Pueblo artist who specializes in pottery (he also does printmaking).
[1] Romero's pots marry Cochiti Pueblo ceramics with his love of comic books, superheroes, mythology, and pop culture.
Romero's work explores gender politics, sexuality, and multifaceted identities of Native people, and all the while, relates the contemporary to the ancient.