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.