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Harold Rosario
Harold Rosario is a Miami-based artist that focuses in subject matter that deal with personal experience and or relationships. Primarily focusing on the medium of painting, he also has branched out into the digital format creating works like “Going for the Arts” a digital photomontage consisting of over 1000 images to create a single image of the Art Class. Rosario’s work has been exhibited at venues in the Miami area including the BAC, Artcenter of South Florida, MOCA’s guests corridor and Redbar Gallery.
His most ambitious work is a series entitled “The Opposite of Missery.” Here is an abstract from his explanation about the inspiration behind this extensive body of work:
What is happiness? For me, it is something I can only imagine with the aid of knowing its opposite. Taoism will tell us that the path to happiness is through harmony. Nothing symbolizes this Ying Yang concept more than the union between a man and a woman during love. A Chinese proverb tells us “on the one side yin (a ‘man’) on the other yang (a ‘woman’) this is the essence of Tao.” Sex between a man and a woman expresses the same harmony as do day and night. These paintings chronicle a state of despair in which I used art to imagine the opposite.
-HAROLD ROSARIO
Harold Rosario
Education
MA from Florida International University 2007
BFA from The University of Florida/New World School of the Arts 1999
AA from Miami Dade Community College 1997
AA Miami Fine Arts University
Study Abroad in France 2006
Study Abroad in China 2005
Exhibitions
Group exhibit at Redbar Gallery Miami, Florida 2011
Group Show Exhibition at MOCA ( Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami Fl 2008)
Group Show “Small Works” at Borders Gallery Miami, Florida 2007
Honorable Mention at the “My City of Doral Painting Competition 2007”
Art Center of South Florida DAEA Juried Exhibition 2007
CQ Gallery Juried Show 2006
The Bakehouse Art Complex-DAEA Juried Exhibition 2004
Private Collection Commission for the Steve & Andrea Busher residence Pinecrest ,Floridac2002
New World Gallery 1999
