Rosanna Valencia

Rosanna Valencia is a Dominican-born and New York City-raised visual artist, architectural designer, and urbanist. Her practice sits at the intersection of design, storytelling, and community-engaged research. She moves between painting, textiles, sculpture, and spatial design to explore concepts across scales, from the intimate to the infrastructural. Trained in architecture and urban planning, she brings technical fluency to projects grounded in the lived experiences and narratives of communities. Her work centers on questions of safety, belonging, and memory, giving form to immigrant experiences and counter-narratives to displacement. One ongoing project, “At Home in the Store,” examines the design aesthetics of migrant-owned corner stores as cultural anchors within gentrifying neighborhoods. Another project, “When Our Stories Speak,” is a large-scale mural at Higher Ground International in Providence, Rhode Island, honoring the journeys and cultural identities of local immigrants and refugees.