Rosa Elena Curruchich (1958–2005) was a Maya Kaqchikel visual artist who was born in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala.

After returning to her home, however, she was attacked by a group that believed her success "might actually take some of the capacity for earning money away from them.

"[4] During the Guatemalan Civil War she painted on a small scale so as to easily and discreetly transport them.

Her early work documented and reclaimed "the affective and political value of the parts of social life not often represented by male painters.

[citation needed] In addition to the Venice Biennale, Curruchich's work has been shown at the exhibition "And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?"