Guadalupe Rosales

2024 Stepping Stone Grantee

Bio

Guadalupe Rosales received an MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016). Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021, 2018); Dallas Museum of Art (2021); Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (2020); Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville (2019); and Aperture Foundation, New York (2018). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Mexico City (2024); Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2023); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); The Kitchen, New York (2019); and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha (2017). Rosales is a recipient of United States Artists Fellowship (2020), Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2019). Rosales has participated in residencies at Glen Wild (2022); PAOS/Museo Taller Jose Clemente, Guadalajara (2020); Main Museum, Los Angeles (2018); and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017). Rosales’ work is in the collections of Dallas Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist Art Foundation; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her forthcoming book, EAST OF THE RIVER, will be published by One World in October 2026.

Ausencia, 2024Installation; aluminum structure, light portals, lenticular photograph, pyramid disco ball300 × 160 × 108 in

  • Installation with an open steel frame structure, bright lighting, and a colorful abstract artwork in an industrial gallery space with a garage door and wooden ceilings.
  • Framed artwork with neon border displaying "Smile for my friends, cry later" in stylized text with a hanging cloth. Yellow coming from within the frame.
  • Dark gallery with vibrant, colorful lights illuminating a sculpture of spoked wheels on a checkered platform.
  • Left image: Frames luminating green light from the inner borders; Right image: Detail of the light sources that come from layer of panels in the frame.
  • Purple lit gallery space with images collaged to the wall. Left to the wall is an installation of clothes hanging. Table in the middle of the room with red spotlight.
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