Julianna Sanromán Rojas

Julianna Sanromán Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist based in Detroit, working between painting, installation, and community-based altar practices. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Practice from the College for Creative Studies, where she received the Imre J. Molnar Artistic Achievement Award, and is currently a graduate candidate at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design. Her work has been exhibited widely across Detroit and internationally, including MOCAD, The Scarab Club, Detroit Artist Market, Galerie Camille, Playground Detroit, and Gallery Omnibus in Dresden, Germany.

Sanromán Rojas has been awarded the Playground Detroit Emerging Artist Fellowship, the Modern Ancient Brown Foundation Post-Baccalaureate Residency, and Visionary Resistance Fellowship (2026). Her work has been featured in collaboration with the University of Nagoya and the Japanese government on research addressing deportation.

She creates paintings and altars that explore memory, migration, and grief. Her work emerges from living between places and loving across distance, where absence becomes something to hold with care rather than resolve. Guided by ancestral knowledge and Latinx futurism, her practice is shaped by both cultural memory and speculative imagination. Through her work, she centers care and remembrance as acts of resistance, creating space to envision more just and restful futures.