| Artist | Carmen Rosa | Resides | United States |
| Website | carmenrosaart.com | Mediums | Oil Acrylic |
| Print Shop | etsy.com/shop/carmenrosaart | [email protected] | |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Tiktok | Themes | Death/macabre Divine feminine Mysticism Despair/hopelessness Hope and Rebirth |
About the artist
Carmen Rosa is a self-taught Puerto Rican artist born in 1977. Raised with a father in the military she spent much of her young life moving throughout the different bases in the US and Germany. Her work consists of a collection of dark, illustrative paintings and sketches. As a night shift Respiratory Therapist, she has worked around the dead and dying for many years. She has treated patients in all levels of hospital care from neonatal intensive care to emergency rooms, trauma rooms, intensive care units and most recently as a frontline healthcare worker during the covid pandemic. You can usually find her during downtime with her headphones on and sketchpad in hand. Listening to music and drawing for her is a way of de-stressing between the episodes of chaos she sometimes faces in her line of work. These collections of sketches were what started her on her path as an artist. She feels that her love for fantasy, science fiction and anime films along with working in healthcare have had an influence in her art.
Carmen Rosa is an artist by day and Respiratory Therapist at night. She’s a mother of three teenagers and live with an autoimmune condition called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or SLE. It can be very challenging to find the time to create. Carmen uses her art as an outlet for all the stressful, traumatic and depressive experiences she’s been through in her life. Mix that in with a love for sci-fi and fantasy and here she is. She uses oil paints and crystals on canvas to express the floodgate of ideas, emotions, colors mixed with fantasies and daydreams that become her work.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Carmen Rosa’s work portrayed are surrealistic views of Death and the Macabre, Despair, hopelessness, mysticism, Hope and Rebirth and divine feminine.
Press
Carmen Rosa’s paintings has been featured in Diabolico II and The power of Creativity – Episode three “Beauty in Sadness” A Documentary Film by Actress Sheryl Carbonell and filmmaker Molly Smith.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
8 is Great, MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry), Tampa, FL. United States
The Conservatory, Alchemy and Ashes, Lutz, FL. United States
Nightmare on Kennedy, House of Shadows, Tampa, FL. United States
Hallucinations and Medications, House of Shadows, Tampa, FL. United States
Revelations Renaissance, City Arts Factory, Orlando, FL. United States
2021
The Conservatory, Alchemy and Ashes, Lutz, FL. United States
The Invented Self, House of Shadows, Tampa, FL. United States
Bella Donna, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL. United States
My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, City Arts Factory, Orlando, FL. United States
2020
Untitled, Overflow Brewering Co, St Petersburg, FL. United States
Black Lives Matter, Redefine Art Gallery, Orlando, FL. United States
2019 Untitled, Overflow Brewering Co, St Petersburg, FL. United States
2018 Untitled, 81 Bay Brewing, Tampa, FL. United States
2017
Seige on Castle Black, Four Stacks Brewing, Apollo Beach, FL. United States
Martial Arts Show, Purple Orchid Cafe, Orlando, FL. United States
