I chose to present on Guadalupe Rosales, a visual artist raised in Boyle Heights who attended the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also spent time working in the New York-based queer feminist collective, LTTR. Rosales has recently gained fame for her takeover of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Instagram account, on which LACMA asked her to post photographs from her project that documents Southern California Latina youth culture from the '90s and earlier. Rosales curates the project primarily on her own Instagram account, Veteranas and Lucas, and also runs another Instagram account, Map Pointz, dedicated to the Latinx party scene in '90s Los Angeles. Some have suggested Rosales is curating a new type of democratized art gallery through her archival projects. She has also engaged with issues of gentrification through a video, "The Town I Live In," that explores her positionality as a Chicana artist from Boyle Heights during a time when many residents are protesting the arrival of galleries, and by extension, gentrification, to the area. Rosales may not be a traditional visual artist, but she is an innovative artist who uses contemporary technology to reach a wide audience and counter the erasure of Chicana history and culture.
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