Lucía Sanromán is the Director of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City. She is Curator at Large of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, where she previously served as Director of Visual Arts (2015–18). She was Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego from 2006-2011.

As an independent curator, Sanromán was awarded the 2012 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship and a 2013 Warhol Exhibition Grant for Citizen Culture: Art and Architecture Shape Policy, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 2014. Also that year, she curated the retrospective exhibition inSite: Cuatro ensayos de lo público, sobre otro escenario, at Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and was co-curator with Candice Hopkins, Janet Dees, and Irene Hofmann of SITE SANTA FE’s signature Biennial SITElines.2014: Unsettled Landscapes. Sanromán is an awardee of a The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship for 2014 for Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge a project by Cohabitation Strategies for the Restored Spaces Initiative at Mural Arts, Philadelphia.