Biographical Information

Romi Sloboda was born in 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. She spent her childhood living in and navigating between the two cultures of the United States and her mother's native country, Korea. Sloboda earned a Bachelor of FIne Arts, receiving her diploma from the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, with a concentration in printmaking. Her work has been shown internationally at the “Paper Road International Exhibition” in Copenhagen, Denmark; the “Pacific Rim International Print Biennial Print Exhibition” in Hilo, Hawaii; and the “International Print Triennial Cracow” in Cracow, Poland. She has also exhibited at several museums, including the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Georgia, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the State Museum of Pennsylvania; and the the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts. Sloboda has been awarded grants by the Leeway Foundation, received an award from the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and recognized by the St. Louis Artists’ Guild and St. Louis chapter of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts. Sloboda also received a residency fellowship from the Cité International des Arts Fondation in Paris, France, and was an artist in residence at CentralTrak, at the University of Texas in Dallas. 

In addition to her studio work, for six years (2009-2015) she served as chair of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s non-profit support group, Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography. In partnership with her late husband, artist Chip Dunahugh, Romi Sloboda also worked in the design, remodeling and renovation of historic and contemporary properties. She has lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States since 2005.
She is currently in London, pursuing her MFA at the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.