Julianna Sanromán

Julianna Sanromán is a painter rooted in Southwest Detroit and nurtured by the landscapes of Northeastern Jalisco, Mexico. Her work emerges from the tension and tenderness of growing up between two worlds—shaped by love, violence, faith, solitude, and homeland. Through painting, she explores memory as a living force, one that continuously reshapes itself through time, loss, and longing.

Her practice is deeply personal: a process of reaching back into childhood to reclaim fragments of identity that feel both distant and intimately her own. Julianna investigates themes of migration, absence, and belonging, drawing from her family’s stories of separation and reunion. Her paintings become visual meditations—quiet acts of remembrance and resistance—offering space to imagine alternate realities where connection is sustained and families remain whole.

Julianna earned her BFA from the College for Creative Studies, where she was honored as valedictorian and received the Imre J. Molnar Award. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) and The Scarab Club. She is a 2024 Emerging Artist Fellow with Playground Detroit and a 2025 Modern Ancient Brown Fellow.