Harmonia Rosales is a Chicago-born, Afro-Cuban-American artist. Growing up in Chicago, Harmonia visited the Art Institute of Chicago, where she first engaged with Renaissance painting as a child. When she returned as a mother many years later, she was struck by her daughter’s observation that the Renaissance figures didn’t look like her, and thus, she didn’t connect with them. That realization began Harmonia’s artistic journey. Since 2017, Harmonia’s main concern has been focused on Black female empowerment in Western culture. Through the lens of Renaissance and Baroque painting, as well as Greco-Roman mythologies, Harmonia visualizes the stories of West African deities called Orishas and the survival of the Yoruba religion across the Middle Passage. With Black protagonists, her work challenges European ideals of beauty and power.
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