Frank Romero is one of the most important Chicano artists at work today. His work contains the symbols, life, mythology, and history of the Chicanos.

Few works could sum up both the career of the artist and his political concerns better than the monumental print History of the Chicano Movement. Both in its narrative structure and its content, this work will be seminal to the educational mission of the museum. Stylistically, it typifies his work.

The oil painting Buffalo Dancer is a central work to the artist's career, illustrating his involvement with the rituals and symbols of Chicano culture. As an earlier work in another medium, it also enriches our collection of the work of this seminal artist.

Romero's importance to the community of Los Angeles and California is indicated by the numerous awards that he has received. These awards recognize both his artistic achievement and his significance to his communities. The awards include: 2002 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship; 1998 California State University Alumni Award of Merit; 1992 Honoree, 8th Annual Awards Dinner of Central American Resource Center; 1992 Outstanding Fine Arts Award, Hispanic Support Network; 1984 Distinguished Citizen Award, Santa Marta Hospital Guild.

The artist's work is in a number of museum and corporate collections including The Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA which also gave him a one-person show in 1992 "Frank Romero A Survey of Recent Work;" the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Neutrogena Corporation, GTE Headquarters, and Tishman International.

His centrality to Chicano art is reflected in his inclusion in a number of surveys held at prestigious museums including "Chicano Visions" held in 2001 at the San Antonio Museum of Art, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and "Hispanic Art in the United States" seen in 1987-89 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Cocoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, LACMA, and the Brooklyn Museum.