Rosy Cortez is a Chicana painter & muralist from Riverside CA. She studied photography and fine art in Riverside City College and Moreno Valley College, and received 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 art full-time. In 2021, she was selected as an Artist-in-Residence with the Latin and Latino Studies Research Center at UC Riverside. She branched into muralism, after she being selected 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 and has led various mural projects throughout the Inland Empire. Including first community based murals in Moreno Valley College, the City of Moreno Valley, Bloomington and Hemet California. 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 where she is currently lead painter on the expansion of Judy Baca’s legacy project The Great Wall of Los Angeles.