Born in Buenos Aires in 1938, Susana Romero-Alayón built much of her career between Asunción, Paraguay and Buenos Aires, where she passed away in 2016. Her body of work spans series such as Archaic Signs, Enigmas of Memory, Myths and Rites, Fish, Snails, and People on the Road, exhibited in museums and collections across Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Spain, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Indonesia, and the United States.