About
Guadalupe Rosales is a multidisciplinary artist and educator best known for her community generated archival projects, “Veteranas and Rucas” and “Map Pointz,” found on social media. The projects manifested in 2015 from the under/misrepresentation and historical erasure of Latin@/x communities in Southern California. These community-generated projects begin with an open invitation to various Latin@/x communities to share personal images and memories that create visual narratives that celebrate identities and historicize subcultures. The archives explore ideas about how history and culture are framed and who does the framing. As a counterpoint, the archive celebrates, humanizes and reflects the positive and honest attributes of our shared culture. It creates a space for collective healing and storytelling and finds ways for new dialogue to emerge about youth culture in Southern California that would not exist otherwise.
In her studio practice, Guadalupe works with sculpture, photography, video, sound, drawing, and community based projects and collaborations, and the archive, centering on the creation of immersive and sensorial spaces to activate memory and evoke a collective experience and embodiment. These spaces conjure up emotions as well as collective feelings of longing that reside in our bodies and remain as living archives. Here, she wants us to consider the body as archives and a locus that preserves, carries, moves, and transforms memory but also intervenes in the continuum of a life archived. The purpose is to uplift private experiences and create space for them to be shared, to see what is concealed and collectively create a multidimensional experience.
Guadalupe’s studio also houses and preserves a physical archive of Chicano/Latinx ephemera from the 1970s to the late-1990s, including but not limited to magazines, prison art and letters, posters and flyers from the Los Angeles underground backyard-party and rave scenes of the 1990s.
Her forthcoming book, EAST OF THE RIVER, will be published by One World, Summer 2026.
EDUCATION
2016 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES (selected)
2025 Tzahualli: Mi memoria en tu reflejo, Palm Springs Art Museum
2024 Tumbados, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
2022 East of the River, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles
2021 Drifting on a Memory, Concourse Mural Series, Dallas Museum of Art
2020 Channel Flip, Meet Me at the Edge of the Sun, Los Angeles Nomadic Division
2020 El Rocio Sobre Las Madrugadas Sin Fin, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico
2019 Must’ve Been A Wake-dream, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville
2019 Legends Never Die/A Collective Memory, Cantor Gallery, Haverford College
2018 Echoes Of A Collective Memory, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles
2018 Legends Never Die, Aperture Foundation
2017 Radical Artists Intervention Series: Lowrider Picnic at Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2025 Traces of Us: Recent Photography, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
2024 WACHA: viajes transtemporales, Commonwealth and Council, Mexico
Edge of the Sun, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
2023 Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Sitting on Chrome, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2022 Quiet as it’s kept, Whitney Biennial, New York
2021 Liberté, Egalité, Beyoncé, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2020 WE LIVE! Memories of Resistance, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles
In Plain Sight, Sky Typing, Los Angeles
2019 LA Fonts, Los Angeles
Always, Already, Haunting, “Disss-co,” Haunt, The Kitchen, New York
2018 Endless Nights, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles
2017 Monarchs, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha
Cheech Marin’s Chicano Art Collection: Papel Dos, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa
2016 Tastemakers & Earthshakers: Notes from Los Angeles Youth Culture, 1943 – 2016,
Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park
2013 Stand Close, Its Shorter Than You Think, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles
2012 Raw/Cooked: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, Ulrike Müller Herstory Inventory,
Brooklyn Museum; KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
AWARDS
2025 Trellis Award
2020 USA Artist Award
2019 The Gordon Parks Fellowship Award
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
RESIDENCIES
2025 Chinati Foundation
2022 The Denniston Hill, New York
2020 PAOS/Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara
2018 The Main Museum, Los Angeles
2017 Artist in Residence, LACMA, Los Angeles
2015 Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Broad
San Jose Art Museum
Palm Springs Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Dallas Museum of Art
Gordon Parks Foundation
Hammer Museum
Kadist Art Foundation
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The West Collection
Whitney Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ARTIST TALKS/LECTURES
2022 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021 Visiting Artist, Arizona State University
2020 Visiting Artist, Occidental College, Los Angeles
Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute
Visiting Artist, New School
2018 The Web as a Political Space, CAA Annual Conference, MOCA, Los Angeles
2017 See What You Mean: Artists’ Discussion at The Getty, Los Angeles
Self Help Graphics: Queeridos, Los Angeles
UCLA Chicano Studies, Los Angeles
Echoes Of A Collective Memory, Artist Talk, The Vincent Price Art Museum
Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles
2016 Street Cultures and Media Archives, The Graduate Center, New York
Who Owns Digital Social Memory?, Rhizome, The New Museum, New York
Southern California 90s Chicano Party Crew and Rave Scene Collection, UCLA, Los
Angeles
2012 Stand Close: A Conversation on Feminist rage and the archive, Department of
Performance Studies
TEACHING/RELATED WORK
2021/2020 Adjunct Professor, New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles
2020 UC Riverside, visiting artist MFA program
Virginia Commonwealth University, Visiting Artist
2019 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mentor MFA student
YALE Department of Graphic Design and Photography, visiting artist
YALE Department of Painting and Printmaking, visiting artist
Columbia University Art Department, visiting artist
Cal Arts, Visiting Artist
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist
2018 Columbia University, Mentor MFA Photography Student
Tisch NYU Photography Dept., Visiting Artist
2017 Columbia University, Mentor MFA Photo Student
Loyola Marymount University, Visiting Lecturer
Rosales’s work has been featured by Vogue, i-D Magazine, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, ArtNews, Artsy, and Artforum, Univision and NPR.