Carlos Rosales-Silva was born in the borderland of El Paso, Texas, in 1982. His studio practice considers the vernacular culture in the American Southwest, the Western canon of art history, and the political and cultural connections and disparities between them. He currently lives and works in New York. Rosales-Silva has exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico, including solo shows at Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, and Ruiz Healy Art, New York, and group shows at North Loop, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Seasons LA, among others. His work has been featured in ARTnews, Artnet News, and Artspace. Rosales-Silva has been a frequent artist in residence at many locations and he has permanent site-specific murals at The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas, and New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. His work is in the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art.

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Carlos Rosales-Silva nació en 1982, en El Paso, Texas. Su práctica artística toma en cuenta la cultura vernácula del suroeste norteamericano, el canon occidental de la historia del arte y las conexiones y disparidades políticas y culturales entre ellos. Vive y trabaja en Nueva York. Rosales-Silva ha mostrado su obra en Estados Unidos y México, en exposiciones individuales en Sargent’s Daughters, Los Ángeles, y Ruiz Healy Art, Nueva York, y en muestras colectivas en North Loop, Williamstown, Massachusetts, y Seasons LA, entre otros recintos. Su obra ha sido difundida en ARTnews, Artnet News y Artspace. Ha sido artista residente en varias instituciones y sus murales permanentes pueden apreciarse en Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas, y la New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. Su obra se encuentra en la colección permanente del San Antonio Museum of Art.