Alicia Rojas (Bogota,1976) is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist living in Santa Ana, CA, whose work is rooted in immigrant rights, anti-gentrification, social and economic equity, and ecological justice. Her artistic practice integrates collaboration, storytelling, and the interplay between nature, land, place, and people. Through installations and public art, she creates immersive experiences that highlight the interconnectedness of human and environmental narratives.
Rojas's process blends studio work, field research, and deep community engagement. She collaborates
with communities to gather personal narratives, histories, and experiences, ensuring that her projects authentically reflect the voices of those involved. Her work fosters collective storytelling, weaving individual experiences into a broader narrative that explores the relationships between people and place.
She is also the Director and Co-founder of the Santa Ana Community Artist(a) Coalition, an organization dedicated to connecting artists with communities to create collaborative public art.
Rojas is a 2025 CALI Catalyst Grant awardee and a 2023-2024 Creative-Corps Fellow through 18th Street Arts Center.
She was honored as a California Arts Council Established Artist Fellow in 2021, recognition celebrated by the Los Angeles Times. Her work has been supported by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the City of Santa Ana, and multiple Investing in the Artist Grants (2015, 2023), and she has received civic and cultural honors including Certificates of Recognition from the City of Santa Ana (2018, 2023), an award from Congressman Lou Correa and Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento for her public art project Las Poderosas (2024), Orange Coast Magazine's Best Mural Project Award (2015), and OC Weekly's Person of the Year Award for Advocacy & Leadership in the Arts (2013).
Her residencies include Grand Central Art Center, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, and a Community Engagement Residency at the Akumal Arts Festival in Mexico. She has exhibited internationally, including at ARTBO in Bogota, and her Las Poderosas public art project-a sculpture, portrait series, oral-history archive, and companion publication-will be presented to the Library of Congress under its American Heroes of the Pandemic collection.
A leading advocate for public art and cultural preservation, Rojas has led campaigns to protect historic murals and landmarks while advancing public art policies, defending cultural memory, and championing community-led art practices.
