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PUBLICATIONS

March 14, 2023

Vessels. Vessels used to carry. Vessels used to conceal.

Vessels fascinate Harmonia Rosales (b. Chicago, 1984).

Ships brought enslaved Africans to the Americas. The ships were vessels.

The enslaved carried their religion along, quickly learning to hide it in order to protect themselves...Read More

February 3, 2023

En se réappropriant le passé, les peintres Harmonia Rosales, Tyler Ballon et Titus Kaphar donnent à voir une histoire de l’art plus représentative pour les personnes minorisées...Read More

MODERNIZING MARY: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS REINTERPRET AN ICON – THE GETTY CENTER

December 10, 2022

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...Watch Here

December 30, 2022

For religious Christians, Christmas is all about Jesus Christ. But his mother Mary was busy, too, giving birth. Over the centuries, Mary became one of the most popular figures of Christendom. Yet she appears in only a handful of pages in the Gospels. Visualizing the Virgin Mary...Read More

IN CONVERSATION: DEBORAH ROBERTS & HARMONIA ROSALES – UTA ARTIST SPACE

November 26, 2022

Watch the Artist on Artist talk here

November 21, 2022

At the heart of Garden of Eve, Harmonia Rosales’ comprehensive exhibition at UTA Artist Space in Beverly Hills, is the power of narrative. The show spans years of Rosales’ career, featuring dozens of portraits in oil and perhaps the grandest work she’s produced thus far: encircled with lights, an upturned ship towers over the gallery, allowing viewers to pass underneath and peer upwards at the frescoed expanse...Read More

IN CONVERSATION: HARMONIA ROSALES & ROBIN COSTE LEWIS – UTA ARTIST SPACE

October 28, 2022

In preparation for Harmonia Rosales’ GARDEN OF EVE exhibit, watch the artist and poet Robin Coste Lewis discuss artistic practices and reframing hegemonic narrative here

COMMERCIAL APPEAL: HOW MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART PLANS TO TRANSFORM INTO 'EPICENTER OF BLACK ART - JOHN BEIFUSS

April 12, 2022

Funded by a group of anonymous donors, the $5 million Blackmon-Perry fellowship establishes a permanent rotating position for a young curator of color while also providing money for exhibitions and regular purchases of works by contemporary and historic Black artists from around the world…Read More

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: AFRICAN GODS MEET GREEK MYTHOLOGY IN HARMONIA ROSALES’S ‘ENTWINED’ - CHARLES DONELAN

April 7, 2022

Upon entering Harmonia Rosales’s show Entwined, on view now through May 1 at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A), one could easily imagine having stumbled into a gallery devoted to the painting of the 15th-century Italian Renaissance…Read More

THE OBSERVER: BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATED WITH ART EXHIBIT AT OMA - GRACE JOHNSON

February 25, 2022

Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales, creates art “focused on black female empowerment in Western culture.” Her work includes depictions of the famous “Madonna and Child” trope, but with Black figures in place of the traditionally white ones from antiquity…Read More

THE CURRENT: FAMILIAR FORMS, UNFAMILIAR TALES - TOM JACOBS

January 19, 2022

There’s something simultaneously familiar and startling about the art of Harmonia Rosales. Sometimes overtly, other times subtly, her paintings allude to Renaissance masterpieces — tableaus of gods and mortals, often drawn from Greek mythology…Read More

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT: UCSB HUMANITIES FOCUSES ON ‘REGENERATION’ IN SERIES OF TALKS - NICHOLAS LIU

January 03, 2022

Next Up: Harmonia Rosales on Her Work and Greek and Yoruba Mythologies…Read More

FAD MAGAZINE: UTA FINE ARTS NOW REPRESENTS HARMONIA ROSALES - MARK WESTALL

December 25, 2021

Rosales joins UTA Fine Arts’ growing list of represented artists after the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s recent acquisition of her work Oya’s Betrayal (2020)...Read More

THE COLLECTOR: HARMONIA ROSALES: BLACK FEMININE EMPOWERMENT IN PAINTINGS - IDALIS LOVE

March 28, 2021

Harmonia Rosales’ work exemplifies the values of the Black Feminist Movement while simultaneously calling into question Black people’s place in the world. Her work creates a space to discuss blackness and its erasure… Read More

NEW YORK TIMES: HOW THREE ARTIST ARE EXPLORING MYTHOLOGY AND RACE- ENUMA OKORO

September 10, 2020

Whether or not you believe in a literal Garden of Eden, the biblical story in which it appears has fed opinions about the nature of gender relationships, human sin and the consequences of disobedience. “The Odyssey” has lessons about life’s journey, weathering storms, heeding warnings and returning home. Odin, the one-eyed Norse god of war and death, is a symbol of self-sacrifice for wisdom...Read More

ARTS HELP: ICONS: HARMONIA ROSALES-HANNAH CHEW

August 5, 2020

Arts Help is thrilled to announce ICONS in partnership with W1 Curates! This new, exciting, and dynamic series will highlight artists igniting social change and raising global consciousness...Read More

THE LATINX PROJECT: RECLAIMING OUR IDENTITY: Q&A WITH AFRO-CUBAN ARTIST HARMONIA ROSALES- JASMINE HERNANDEZ

July 2, 2020

Harmonia Rosales, an Afro-Cuban American contemporary painter, elevates Black women to extraordinary plateaus in her very grand and sweeping oil paintings....Read More

ART SHE SAYS: HOW HARMONIA ROSALES DEFIES THE HEGEMONY TONE I STROKE AT A TIME- ZARAH ALISHA

June 10, 2020

Rosales reimagines classical and religious paintings typically reserved for white bodies and depicts Black women as how they ought to be recognized — powerful and beautiful...Read More

MOTHERLY: HARMONIA ROSALES ON BEING A SINGLE MOM, A WORKING ARTIST AND FINDING HER PATH IN LIFE - LIZ TENETLY

April 23, 2020

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DETROIT NEWS: WRIGHT MUSEUM'S 'QUEEN' STARS STRONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN-MICHAEL H. HODGES

April 22, 2020

Among the many pleasures COVID-19 has robbed us of, at least temporarily, is the opportunity to walk through "Queen: Celebrating Black Womanhood," the gorgeous new show at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History....Read More

COLOSSAL: MEMORY AND SELF-LOVE HIGHLIGHT PROFOUND PORTRAITS OF BLACK FIGURES BY HARMONIA ROSALES- GRACE EBERT

January 27, 2020

Chicago-born artist Harmonia Rosales says her striking portraits speak to "the part of me that has been the least represented in our society."... Read More

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