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Guadalupe Rosales Brings East LA to Venice for the Biennale

Guadalupe Rosales Brings East LA to Venice for the Biennale

In 2015, Los Angeles–based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In the decade since, the account has shared thousands of images and amassed over 273,000 followers, many of whom have submitted their own images of the community celebrated by the account. Rosales has described the project as a necessary one for combating racist stereotypes of Latinx people seen on the news and TV, and in other mass media. At Rosales’s Instagram has grown in popularity, her art practice has continued to evolve. She has produced everything from lush photographs showing details of lowriders, hung in metal-engraved frames, to lowrider-inspired murals, to sculptures and installations that incorporate her ever-growing archive. Related Articles Her work has been included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, the 2023 Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum, and the group show “At the Edge of the Sun” at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles. In September, she will publish a memoir, …