Carlos Rosales-Silva American, b. 1982

Carlos Rosales-Silva is an artist and educator working and living between New York, NY and Texas.

Carlos Rosales-Silva’s works are grounded in the practice of painting but often borrowed from sculptural and installation practices, existing in the spaces between classifications. For the last decade, his studio has been for research and mediation on the ever-expanding histories of Brown people in the United States. The artist’s works consider the histories of vernacular cultures of the American Southwest, the Western canon of art history, and the political and cultural connections and disparities between them. The works themselves are abstract acts of personal discovery that reveal meaning long after completion. In this sense, they are non-textual communications, meditative, and slow ways of processing knowledge.

“There would be no modernism without the cultural work of indigenous peoples and there would be no modern world without the labor, wealth, and life siphoned from North America by colonizers. While this concept is challenging to represent in modular paintings, especially abstract paintings, a practice of citation is not difficult. My work runs parallel to the established art historical canon; deeply indebted to the artists, artisans, and craftspeople of the American Southwest and Mexico as much as it is to any established and codified art historical canon.” - Carlos Rosales-Silva.

The artist holds an MFA from New York City School of Visual Arts. Rosales-Silva has participated in numerous Artist-in-Residency programs such as the Artist-in-Residence at the Abrons Art Center, New York, NY; Residency Unlimited, New York, NY; Pioneer Works, New York, NY, and the 2018 Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX, curated by Risa Puleo. The artist has been featured and reviewed in publications such as Hyperallergic and Glasstire. His artwork is part of the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, and the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. Rosales-Silva has exhibited throughout Texas, Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kansas City.

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