[citation needed] She was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and received an MFA degree in 2016[3] As an adult and artist, she uses her personal story to encourage others to use their voices as a powerful tool for self-representation.
[4] In her studio practice, Guadalupe works with sculpture, photography, video, sound, drawing, and community based projects and collaborations, and the archive, centering on the creation of immersive and sensorial spaces to activate memory and evoke a collective experience and embodiment.
[5]" Guadalupe’s studio also houses and preserves a physical archive of Chicano/Latinx[6] ephemera from the 1970s to the late-1990s, including but not limited to magazines, prison art and letters, posters and flyers from the Los Angeles underground backyard-party and rave scenes of the 1990s.
[10] In 2017, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) gave Rosales a 6 week take over of their Instagram account.
[11] She showed her Installation "Guadalupe Rosales: Echoes of a Collective Memory" at the Vincent Price Art Museum, September 2018 to March 2019.