Carlos Rosales-Silva

Border Logic, 2022, Glass Bead and crushed stone in acrylic paint with dyed stones and acrylic plastic on custom shaped panel, 44 x 33 in.

Peep Hole 2, 2022, Glass Bead and crushed stone in acrylic paint on panel, 50 x 40 in.

Carlos Rosales-Silva (b. 1982, El Paso, TX) was born on the border of the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas. 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. Carlos graduated from The School of Visual Arts (New York, NY) with a Masters in Fine Arts in 2020 and received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas Austin (Austin, TX) in 2010. He currently lives and works in New York, NY. 

Rosales-Silva has exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico. He has been an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2024); Abrons Art Center in New York, NY (2021); Residency Unlimited in New York, NY (2020); Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (2018); and at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY (2017). Recent solo exhibitions include Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA) and Ruiz Healy Art (New York, NY), The School of Visual Arts (New York, NY), Sadie Halie Projects (Minneapolis, MN), amongst others. Rosales-Silva has participated in group shows at Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY), North Loop (Williamstown, MA), Seasons LA (Los Angeles, CA), Latinx Project at NYU (New York, NY), White Columns (New York, NY), Ruiz Healy Art (San Antonio, TX), Beverly’s (New York, NY), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), amongst others. His work has been reviewed by ARTnews, Artnet News, Artspace, Hyperallergic, Glasstire, Whitehot Magazine, amongst others.  Rosales-Silva’s work is in the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX). He has permanent site-specific murals at The Momentary (Bentonville, AK) and New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM). He is represented by Ruiz Healy Art in Texas and Sargent’s Daughters in Los Angeles and New York.