Guadalupe Rosales


Guadalupe Rosales is an artist, best known for her work creating a vernacular photograph and ephemera archive based on 1990's Latinx youth and party culture.

Early life and education

Guadalupe Rosales was raised in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights, Southern California. She was educated at the SAIC and received an MFA in 2016
When she was only 16 years old when she lost her cousin to gang violence. As an adult and artist, she uses her personal story to encourage others to use their voices as a powerful tool for self-representation.

Career

Guadalupe Rosales's started collecting vernacular photography in 2015. She crowd sourced a digital archive . Her Instagram accounts are Veteranas & Rucas and Map Pointz.
"Her projects is to deepen and re-contextualize the narrative of Latinos often stereotyped and profiled as gangsters or “cholos.”
In 2016, Rosales took over the New Yorker Magazine's social media account for a week. It was one of the top-rated takeovers of the year.
"She creates counter-narratives and tells the stories of communities often underrepresented in public record and official memory. "
She showed her Installation "Guadalupe Rosales : Echoes of a Collective Memory" at the Vincent Price Art Museum September 2018 - March 2019.

Work

Major exhibitions

Guadalupe Rosales: ''El Rocío sobre las madrugadas sin fin.
Guadalupe Rosales: Echoes of a Collective
Guadalupe Rosales: Legends Never Die, A Collective Memory, Aperture.
Haverford College

Awards and nominations