{"id":1792,"date":"2026-08-02T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=1792"},"modified":"2026-08-02T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:52:38","slug":"harmonia-rosales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/harmonia-rosales\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonia Rosales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-995f960e wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harmonia Rosales<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\">Artist and Author<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harmonia Rosales is a Chicago-born, Afro-Cuban American artist and author whose work centers the visibility and empowerment of Black women in Western art. Growing up visiting the Art Institute of Chicago, Rosales was captivated by Renaissance painting \u2013 but years later, her daughter\u2019s simple observation that \u201cthey don\u2019t look like me\u201d exposed the exclusion at the heart of that tradition. That moment sparked Rosales\u2019s artistic journey: reimagining Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces with Black protagonists and centering West African spirituality. With bold, uncompromising imagery and prose, Rosales challenges Eurocentric ideals of beauty, power, and divinity, reshaping both art history and cultural consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2026, The Getty in Los Angeles presented Rosales\u2019s paintings as part of the exhibition <em>Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages<\/em>.&nbsp;Rosales has previously been the subject of exhibitions at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; the Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; the Wright Museum, Detroit, MI, among others. In September 2025, Rosales unveiled her first public sculpture <em>Unbound<\/em> (2025), a commission for King\u2019s Chapel in Boston, MA. Her work is held by numerous public and private collections across the United States, including the Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, Washington, D.C.; Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, among others. Her debut novel, <em>Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic<\/em> was published by W.W. 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