Past Events
Chronicles of Ori Book Tour: St Louis
February 22, 2026
21c Museum
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: St Louis
February 23, 2026
Washington University
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Hartford
February 16, 2026
Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: New Orleans
February 11, 2026
New Orleans Museum of Art
With Special Guest CCH Pounder
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Miami
November 23, 2025
Pérez Art Museum Miami
With Special Guest Desmond Howard
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Dallas
November 20, 2025
Green Family Foundation
Special Guest to be announced.
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Santa Barbara
November 13, 2026
UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum
With Special Guest Dr. Helen Morales
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Philadelphia
October 21, 2025
Free Library of Philadelphia
With Special Guest Imani Roach
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: New York
October 16, 2025
Brooklyn Public Library
With Special Guest Amy Andrieux
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Miami
February 23, 2025
Miami Book Fair
In conversation with George O'Connor, Ivy Pochoda, and Kwame Mbalia
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Houston
November 21, 2026
Kindred Stories
With Special Guest Janice Bond
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Memphis
November 19, 2025
Memphis Brooks Museum of ArtWith Special Guest Patricia Daigle
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: New York
October 28, 2025
Caribbean Cultural Center, African Diaspora
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: San Francisco
October 15, 2025
MoAD x Lit Quake
With Special Guest Key Jo Lee
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Los Angeles
October 9, 2025
Sotheby’s
With Special Guest Tina Knowles.
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: D.C.
November 17, 2025
Howard University
With Special Guest Bisa Butler
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: London
October 24, 2025
The National Gallery
With Special Guest Kimberly Drew
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Oakland
October 18, 2026
The Sanctuary
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Charlotte
October 2, 2025
Gantt Center and Museum
With Special Guest Adama Delphine
Chronicles of Ori The Book Tour: Atlanta
September 26, 2025
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
With Special Guest Bozoma Saint John
Archived Talks
Episode No. 744: “Beginnings”
Modern Art Notes Podcast
Feb 5, 2026
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Episode No. 744 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Blas Isasi and curators Larissa Grollemond and Elizabeth Morrison, and artist Harmonia Rosales. Grollemond and Morrison are the curators of “Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages” at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The exhibition, which is on view through April 19, looks at how creation stories have been advanced in manuscript painting. The exhibition also includes works by Harmonia Rosales, whose work often engages Christian creation stories, how they were presented in the middle ages, and how they might be offered today.
Making a Monument: A Conversation with Harmonia
The Monumental Project
Dec 12, 2025
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As often as we discuss monuments that have stood for decades or centuries, we rarely find the opportunity to discuss a monument just recently erected. In our final episode of 2025, we're excited to share a conversation with Harmonia Rosales, the artist of a new monument in Boston, Massachusetts entitled, "Unbound." Harmonia shares with us her artistic vision for the monument, how the project came to be, and what her overall ethos is as an artist that works with sculpture,
Chronicles of Ori: The Book Tour
Multiple Locations
Oct 14, 2025
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This book tour is more than a celebration; it is a movement. It brings together art and storytelling to shift cultural perception and ignite global dialogue. Through this work, Harmonia Rosales ensures that the Orishas are not only remembered—but revered, celebrated, and woven into the fabric of pop culture for generations to come.
Harmonia Rosales: Reclaiming the Narrative
New York University, The Center for Black Visual Culture
Apr 2, 2025
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Artist Harmonia Rosales interrogates the ways believers and dreamers re-imagine myth-making offering a unique lens on West African mythology. By weaving ancient tales of the Orisha pantheon with her ancestral knowledge, Rosales’ paintings insert the African deities she grew up with into narratives that span the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. Through her painted works, Rosales brings an overlooked world and tradition into the grander creative canon. Dr. Akissi Britton, anthropologist specializing in African diasporic religions; Black feminisms; and diaspora/Black Atlantic theory will join Rosales for a post-lecture conversation about
Creative Conversations: Ben Quash with Harmonia Rosales
National Gallery, The Visual Commentary on Scripture
Mar 3, 2025
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This film continues our series of ‘Creative Conversations’. In these conversations, living artists working in a variety of different artistic media discuss how the Bible and its legacies of visual and theological interpretation operate as a vital resource for their own creativity. In this episode, Ben Quash interviews the visual artist Harmonia Rosales, whose roots in Yoruba religious culture, in its journey from West Africa to Cuba and beyond, have inspired her deep engagement with biblical stories and artistic traditions as conversation partners for her work.
What's The Point? With Harmonia Rosales
What's The Point Podcast
Dec 5, 2024
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Shantell Martin kicks off Season 2 of #WhatsthePoint with the incredible Harmonia Rosales.
Dive into an inspiring conversation about the critical role research plays in Harmonia's artistic process and her visionary outlook on the future of her art. Together, they explore her journey from early encounters with fine art to the powerful influence of her ancestry and the invaluable lessons
Falkenburg Lecture: Artist Harmonia Rosales in conversation with Stephanie Sparling Williams
Cerebral Women Podcast
Aug 31, 2023
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Join us for a conversation between artist Harmonia Rosales and Dr. Stephanie Sparling Willams, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. This event celebrates the artist and her work, including the painting The Harvest, on view at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
Harmonia Rosales: Reclaiming Lost Histories
New York Studio School
Nov 7, 2023
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Artist Harmonia Rosales describes the longevity of her work by employing decolonial practices to her paintings. She unmasks the stories of Yoruba deities (Orishas) and puts them at the center of her storytelling. By reclaiming these lost narratives, she brings power to them.
A Conversation with Harmonia Rosales
Cerebral Women Podcast
Aug 31, 2023
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This episode features Harmonia Rosales. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she is an Afro-Cuban American artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her exquisite canvases navigate, and question received narratives from ancient myths, Biblical stories, classical antiquity, and AfroCuban culture, while challenging Eurocentric perceptions of beauty.
Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative
Spelman Museum of Fine Art
Aug 18, 2023
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The Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative exhibition opened with an artists talk between Harmonia Rosales and Spelman Professor Emeritus, Arturo Lindsay. In this conversation about art and the African diaspora, they discuss art-making, identity, and the influence of the orishas.
THE BLACK BAROQUE PROJECT Visiting Artist Interviews: Harmonia Rosales
University of Chicago
May 1, 2023
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A Black Baroque conversation between Los Angeles based artist Harmonia Rosales and art historian Sophia Q. McCabe. The two discuss how Rosales's work engages with and subverts Baroque art to tell new stories of belonging through her reimaginations of 17th-century paintings that visualize the stories of the orishas, the survival of the Yoruba religion through the African diaspora, and Black female beauty and Black empowerment.
Harmonia Rosales: MASTER NARRATIVE
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Mar 10, 2023
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A conversation between Los Angeles-based artist Harmonia Rosales and exhibition curator Dr. Patricia Daigle, MBMA Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative.
Modernizing Mary: Contemporary artists reinterpret an icon
The Getty Center
Dec 10, 2022
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The depiction of the Virgin Mary in visual art is a tradition stretching back almost 2,000 years. Her popularity over the centuries is well represented by many artworks in the Getty Museum, but Mary also continues to inspire contemporary artists. In this conversation, participants draw out the enduring appeal of this figure who serves as both an icon of compassionate devotion and cultural celebration, or an emblem of religious tradition and oppression to critique. Exploring why contemporary artists remain attracted to the many symbolisms of the Virgin Mary helps us understand how a visual theme that originated in the Middle Ages still has resonance today.
In Conversation: Deborah Roberts & Harmonia Rosales
UTA Artist Space
Nov 26, 2022
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Harmonia Rosales and Deborah Roberts discuss challenging the notion of ideal beauty from a marginalized perspective.
Conversation: Harmonia Rosales & Robin Coste Lewis of Ori: The Book Tour
UTA Artist Space
Oct 28, 2022
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In preparation for Harmonia Rosales’ GARDEN OF EVE exhibit, the artist and poet Robin Coste Lewis discuss artistic practices and reframing hegemonic narrative.