Dilmar M. Gamero S. PhD. (b. 1976, Peru) is a lens-based artist and educator established in the U.S. whose research-driven and art practice incorporate photography, moving image, film, and new media, stressing the conceptual art-making capacities and potential of their materiality.

Gamero’s creative process is related to his background in visual arts, philosophy, theology, and pedagogy. He merges traditional, experimental, analog and digital image-making processes to explore the materiality implications of multidimensional images, objects, subjects, and environments. His creations focus on the representation and interpretation of private and public memory, time and space, diasporic and gender identity, ephemerality and abstraction, rituals and spirituality, contemplation, dynamics of the individual and the collective, storytelling, and the presence and absence of minority groups in historical archives.

Recent group and solo exhibits and research have been presented in several venues, screenings, and conferences in Peru, Latin America, Europe, Canada and the U.S. His Ph.D. research and solo exhibit, based on experimental photography and creating alternative narratives, were presented as a solo show at Elfreth’s Alley Museum in Philadelphia.

Gamero holds a BFA in Audiovisual Communication at the Catholic Pontifical University of Peru (2006), an MFA in Photography at Tyler School of Art and Architecture (2019), and a Ph.D. in Documentary Arts and Visual Research at the School of Theater, Film and Media Arts at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (2022). He is a faculty and program head in photography at Tyler School of Art and Architecture.