Roger Danilo Carmona is an artist, teacher, and colorman based in New York City since 2002. Born in León, Nicaragua, and raised in Hialeah, FL, his upbringing in a city shaped by immigration and resilience instilled a deep awareness of language—as a tool to survive, connect, and remember. This foundation informs his approach to painting as a site of documentation, translation, and reflection.

Carmona’s practice begins in a pocket sketchbook, where notes and fragments evolve into improvisational paintings. Influenced by a family tradition of storytelling and comedy, he treats painting as a thought experiment, constructing a visual memory palace to process themes of miscommunication and anxiety. Using an invented visual language, he invites viewers to see form and color as dynamic characters on an open-ended stage. His work is inseparable from his deep material knowledge, developed over nearly twenty years as the General Manager of Kremer Pigments NYC. This expertise allows him to shape the unique character of each piece by carefully preparing and blending raw materials to fit his narrative needs.

Following the store's 2025 closure, Carmona was recognized as a fundamental figure in the painting community, described in the recent Hyperallergic tribute “The Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See” as "one of the most trusted paint experts in New York City." A vocal advocate for material literacy, he shares this technical expertise through lectures at institutions including SVA, MICA, SMFA, and FIT, and has been featured on The Met’s Immaterial podcast and the CAA materials science panel. He discussed egg tempera techniques for Jarrett Earnest’s exhibition The Young and Evil at David Zwirner and appears in Pascale Bouhénic’s documentary Mark Rothko, la peinture vous regarde (Arte). His work has been exhibited at Gladstone Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Underdonk, and Galleria Sansamina in Italy.