Harmonia Rosales is an American artist, born on February 6, 1984, in Chicago, Illinois, to a Cuban-born father and a Jamaican-Jewish illustrator mother, and she was raised in the Santería religious tradition. English Wikipedia reports that she pursued a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, that her style draws on Afrocentric motifs and classical European art, and that her work has been exhibited at venues including the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Among her works it names The Creation of God, a reworking of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, and The Birth of Oshun. In this atlas she is linked as the painter of Oya's Betrayal.
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Harmonia Rosales, Cuban American, born 1984
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Harmonia Rosales (born on February 6, 1984) is an American artist born in Chicago.
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Harmonia Rosales (born on February 6, 1984) is an American artist born in Chicago.
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Personal life
She was raised in the Santería religious tradition.
Career
In 2017, Rosales posted an image, The Creation of God, on social media, of her first completed work for her solo exhibition Black Imaginary To Counter Hegemony.
Significant works
In 2025, Harmonia Rosales released her first project as an author, the publication “Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic,” which featured new works and the artist's approach to Yoruba mythology.
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