Dilmar M. Gamero S. PhD. (b. 1976, Peru) is a lens-based artist and educator established in Philadelphia, PA, and Fort Lauderdale, FL. His research-driven and art practice incorporates 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 creating alternative narratives was displayed as a solo show at Elfreth’s Alley Museum in Philadelphia.