Manuel Romo Rodríguez was a painter from Estación Torres, Sonora, Mexico, who was born in 1920. Romo received his artistic training at the Academia de Artes Plásticas of the Universidad de Sonora, where he would later return as an instructor. Here he would become associated with other notable artists such as Mario Moreno Zazueta, and . His works are mostly paintings, etchings and some ceramics. His early works concentrate on landscapes and still lifes. His later work concentrates on representing darker emotions such as pain, suffering and death.