Harmonia Rosales

**Harmonia Rosales** (amụrụ 1984) bụ onye omenkà America si Chicago .   

## Ọrụ
Rosales na-arụkarị ọrụ dị ka onye na-ese ihe n'oge gboo na-egosi ụmụ nwanyị na ndị nwere agba na-ewere ọrụ ike na ịma mma n'echiche mara mma nke akụkọ ifo oge ochie, omenala Afro-Cuban, na eserese Renaissance. Ụdị nka ya bụ nsụgharị zuru ezu gụnyere agba mmanụ, akwa linen, akwụkwọ ọla edo, na akụkụ osisi. Kemgbe 2017, ọrụ ya ejirila ígwè oxide gosipụta ọ bụghị naanị ala Africa kama ire ere na akụkọ ntolite Africa na America, nhọrọ o bu n'obi ime ka ajụjụ a dịkwuo elu "Gịnị kpatara? Gịnị mere anyị ji anabata echiche Eurocentric banyere ịma mma na akụkọ ihe mere eme ruo ogologo oge?

Na 2017, Rosales sonye na ihe ngosi nka nka nke Sayensị na ụlọ ọrụ Black Creativity Juried. Ihe osise a bụ nke nwa ya nwanyị ma gụnye ihe niile dị n'ichepụta oke na nkewa n'oge ọ bụ nwata. Ihe nrite a gbara Rosales ume ka ọ pụọ na eserese eserese wee mepụta ọrụ siri ike. N'ihi usoro eserese nke Rosales, ọ na-enwe ike imepụta eserese 9-10 naanị otu afọ.
thumb| Okike nke Chineke, 2017, mmanụ na linen Belgian

## Ọrụ
thumb| 2016 1st ebe onye mmeri nke Black Creativity award
Na 2017, Rosales tinyere ihe oyiyi, *Okike nke Chineke*, na mgbasa ozi mgbasa ozi, nke ọrụ mbụ ya rụzuru maka ihe ngosi solo ya *Black Imaginary To Counter Hegemony.* Ihe osise a bụ mpempe mmanụ na-akwa akwa nke were ọnwa abụọ rụọ ọrụ. Na eserese a, Rosales na-emegharị Michelangelo's *Creazione di Adamo* (The Creation of Adam) site n'igosipụta ma Chineke na Adam dị ka ụmụ nwanyị ojii. *Okike nke Adam* na-egosi mkpịsị aka Jehova na ahụ́ gba ọtọ nke nwoke mbụ ahụ mara mma. N'ụzọ dị iche, ihe osise nke Rosales mere na-egosi Chineke dị ka nwanyị ojii ma na-emepụta echiche efu nke eluigwe dị ka afọ nke ọ na-esi na ya mụọ Iv n'omume ike na ike. Emepụtara onyonyo a iji gosi na isiokwu ndị ọcha bụ ọkọlọtọ na nka oge ochie ebe ọ na-ama onye na-ekiri aka ịma ihe kpatara na-anabatakarị omume ahụ.
thumb| Ọmụmụ nke Ọshun, Mmanụ 2017 na akwa akwa Belgian
Na 2017 Rosales bụ Simard-Bilodeau Contemporary, bụ ụlọ ngosi nka nke dabere na LA, wee nye ya ihe ngosi solo mbụ ya. Ihe so na ihe nkiri ahụ bụ *Okike nke Chineke* . Otu n'ime ọtụtụ ọrụ ya gụnyere *Ọmụmụ Oshun*, ihe osise mmanụ na-akwa akwa, nke na-atụgharịghachi ọrụ Sandro Botticelli, *Birth of Venus ,* site n'itinye Oshun, chi nwanyị ọmụmụ, agụụ mmekọahụ na ọganihu nke Yoruba, n'ime mgbọ mmiri gbara ya gburugburu. Ndị mmụọ ozi ojii, n'ụzọ dị iche na eserese Botticelli ebe White Venus, chi nwanyị ịhụnanya, ịma mma na ọmụmụ, nọ n'ime mgbọ mmiri nke ndị mmụọ ozi ọcha gbara ya gburugburu.  Na eserese a, Oshun nwere vitiligo nke ejiri patches ọla edo mee nke nwere mgbọrọgwụ n'ọdịnala akụkọ ọdịnala Naijiria.  Ihe osise a bu n'obi ịgbagha echiche nke ịma mma n'ihi na dịka ọ na-ekwu, "Na omenala, anyị na-ahụ Venus dị ka nwanyị a mara mma nke nwere ntutu isi. Ọ dịghị mgbe ntutu m na-asọpụta, n'ihi ya, m na-eche ihe mere nke a ji bụrụ ihe osise nke nwanyị kachasị mma n'ụwa." Ihe osise a na-arụ ọrụ iji gosipụta ịma mma na ezughị okè, dị ka patches nke vitiligo, ọnọdụ akpụkpọ anụ.  Ọ na-ekwukwa na ya ji nwa ya nwanyị kee ọrụ a iji gosi nwa ya nwanyị na ụmụ nwanyị ojii, na ntutu isi ha, mara mma.

## Ndụ onwe onye
A mụrụ Rosales na February 6, 1984, na Chicago, Illinois, nye onye Cuban Giraldo Rosales na onye ihe ngosi Jamaican-Juu Melodye Benson Rosales. A zụlitere ya n'omenala okpukpe Santería .

N'inwe nna nna ma ndị nne na nna gbanyere mkpọrọgwụ n'akụkụ oke osimiri ọdịda anyanwụ Afrịka, Rosales na-akpachapụ anya na-etinye aka na ahụhụ ya na nzụlite omenala ya iji maa echiche nke ndị na-ekiri ihe gbasara njirimara na ike na nka ya.

## Ihe ngosi ọha na mkpokọta

* *ΩA Omega Alfa: Harmonia Rosales*, 2024, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA.
* *Ogige Iv*, 2022, UT Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA.
* *Harmonia Rosales: Ejikọtara*, 2022, UCSB Art, Design &amp;amp; Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, CA.
* *Mmụta Miss: Iweghachite njirimara Anyị,* 2022,  Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA)
* *Femme Touch*, 2020, Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, PA.
* *Queen*, 2020, The Wright Museum, Detroit, MI.
* *Oya's Betrayal*, 2020  *,* Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture NW Washington, DC
* *Nye m ahụ: Femme Re-Divined*, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY.
* *Owuwe ihe ubi*, 2018,  Ugwu Holyoke College Art Museum South Hadley, MA.

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