Rosy Cortez is a Chicana painter & muralist from Riverside CA. She graduated with a degree in photography and fine art from Riverside City College and Moreno Valley Community College, followed by a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from California State University of Long Beach with a concentration in Figurative Painting.

She worked as a commercial photographer before taking a leap of faith to pursue her dream of a being an art full-time artist. Shortly after, she was selected as an Artist-in-Residence with the Latin and Latino Studies Research Center at UC Riverside. She then branched into muralism, after she was awarded Emerging Artist by Riverside Art Museum to assist on the Park Avenue Storefront Revitalization Project.

Since then, her painting “Work Ethic” has been acquired by The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture. She has led various mural projects throughout the Inland Empire. Including first community based murals in Moreno Valley College, the City of Moreno Valley and Bloomington CA. She is a former Arts Commissioner for the City of Moreno Valley and recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship and the Creative Corps grant.

Rosy recently expanded her career to Los Angeles CA where she is currently working as a lead muralist for the expansion of Judy Baca’s legacy project The Great Wall of Los Angeles.