Rose Salseda

Dr. Rose Salseda is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University’s Department of Art & Art History and a founding co-director of the US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF). Her research bridges African American and U.S. Latinx art, focusing on the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, while examining race, identity, representation, and the intersections of art with underground music and social justice movements.

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2018)
• M.A., University of Texas at Austin (2009)
• B.A., California State University, Fullerton (2007)

Her scholarship investigates how artists confront systemic racism, xenophobia, and state violence through appropriation, abstraction, and minimalism. Her upcoming book Unrest: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Artist's Drive for Justice (University of Chicago Press) analyzes art produced in response to racialized uprisings.

Dr. Salseda’s writing has appeared in anthologies like Xicana.o.x Body and journals such as Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture, with topics ranging from police brutality in art to equity in academia. She received the Latinx Artist Fellowship in 2022.

• "15 Latinx Artist Fellows Receive $50K Grants" (Hyperallergic, 2022)
• "We Have to Mobilize: Latinx Art Scholars Talk Representation" (ARTnews, 2017)

A first-generation college student rooted in South Los Angeles, she integrates community perspectives into her teaching and research, offering courses on topics like the Art of Punk, Censorship in American Art, and Race and Abstraction.