About Me
Veronica Rojas (b. Mexico City, 1973) was born into a multi-cultural family; her father is Mexican and her mother Swedish. Veronica grew up in Mexico City where she was exposed from very early on to the art of Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo. These artists have ever since remained a big influence in Veronica’s artwork. In 1995 she came to San Francisco, USA, to get a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and later an MFA at the California College of the Arts. She currently lives in Oakland, California. Veronica has shown her work nationally and internationally. She has been a Visual Aid Grant recipient and has been nominated to The Eureka Fellowship Grant and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. In 2011 Veronica got the Jerome Caja Terrible Beauty Award. Veronicas’ paintings have been reviewed in Artweek Magazine, Bay Area Express, Metro Active and the TV program Latin Eyes.
Undergraduate School
San Francisco Art Institute
Undergraduate Degree
BFA Interdisciplinary
Graduate School
California College of the Arts
Graduate Degree
MFA Ceramics
Art Interests
What I like about Art
Painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking
Favorite Artists
Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Tamayo, Helma af Klint, William Kentridge, Dan Miller, Lulu Sotelo, Zina Hall, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Donald Mitchell, William Scott,
Favorite Cultural Countries
Mexico, Peru, France, Japan, India, China, Spain
