Rosy Sunshine Galvan

Artist Statement

Rosy Sunshine Galvan is a queer, Dominican muralist, painter, and digital artist born and raised in NYC and residing in Baltimore. Her work uplifts vibrational frequencies, and her palette serves as an irresistible reminder to celebrate our resilience. Rosy's art is a convergence of Caribbean, urban, and ancestral influences, characterized by bright colors and graphic illustrations that adorn biomorphic beings. Rosy is also a macro social worker, an expert in community-driven design, and prioritizes community engagement as integral to public art. Rosy is the founder of the Sunshine Collective, which helps organizations operationalize equitable and anti-racist principles in programming, practices, and workplace dynamics. She works at the intersection of her creativity and social work practice to conjure structural change, believing our imaginations are critical tools for systemic transformation. Rosy has recently exhibited her works at the Hawthorne Contemporary Gallery and the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts. She is also the recipient of the 2025 Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Creativity Grant, the 2026 MSAC New Artworks Grant, and is currently an Artist in Residence for the SNF Agora Institute Visiting Fellows program at Johns Hopkins University. Her murals can be found in New York, DC, Oklahoma, and Baltimore.