PUBLICATIONS
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
Prime News Ghana
March 31, 2019
Meet the female artist who received backlash for painting God as a black woman
Face 2 Face Africa
March 30, 2019
Meet the artist who received backlash for painting God as a black woman
B.E.T.
March 8, 2019
25 BLACK WOMEN TRAILBLAZERS TO KNOW & LOVE
American Art
February 2019
The Human Spirit
Essence Magazine
January 2019
Color Our World
Revolt TV
December 11, 2018
Harmonia Rosales Recreating Art History
American Art
October 28, 2018
Empowered Narratives
Dazed Digital
September 5, 2018
Harmonia Rosales repaints classic artworks to show God is a black woman
LA Times
9/21/2017
Words and Pictures: Viral artist Harmonia Rosales' first collection of paintings reimagines classic works with black femininity
New York Post
5/30//2017
Uproar over artist’s painting of God as a black woman
B.E.T.
5/24/2017
This Artist Painted God as a Black Woman and Got a Lot of People Mad
Metro UK
5/24/2017
Artist who painted God as a black woman gets abuse
HuffPost
5/18/2017
Artist Reimagines Michelangelo’s ‘Creation’ Painting To Honor Black Women
Teen Vogue
5/17/2017
Artist Harmonia Rosales Re-Imagines "The Creation of Adam" with Black Women
BuzzFeed
5/16/2017
This Woman Reimagined Michelangelo's "The Creation Of Adam" With Black Women And It's Beautiful
Chicago Tribune:
Chicago native finds fame by replacing white men in classic art with black women
March 28th, 2018
Harmonia Rosales said it wasn’t that long ago that she was so strapped for cash that she signed up to be an extra on the Chicago-filmed drama “Empire.” The Chicago native has now made a name for herself in Hollywood — not for acting, but for painting.