Rose Roque was born in Quezon City, Philippines in 1988. She immigrated with her family from her home country to Los Angeles in 1999 and became a U.S. citizen more than a decade after.

 

She interned for the Los Angeles Mayor in 2005 and worked in several successful political campaigns. She trained in Culinary Arts and earned a degree in Political Science with an International Affairs concentration from University of California in Riverside. She also studied photography under Peter Holzhauer, a Los Angeles-based photographer.

 

Following the passing of her mother in January 2012, Rose continued working in Real Estate in Los Angeles to support her two younger sisters, later becoming a California-licensed sales agent after relocating to the Bay Area.

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On September 2023, the historic San Francisco Women Artists organization, whose founders helped Frida Kahlo launch her first solo exhibit, welcomed Rose as a member. There, both Rose and her daughter Alexa had a successful month-long art exhibition where both artists' paintings sold.

 

Rose is an artist and poet whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, sculpture, floristry, and verse.

 

Rather than working toward a singular visual signature, her work is unified by a sustained attention to form, light, and subtle contrast as emotional and perceptual tools.

 

Language has not always been a reliable access point for her. As a result, her creative practice developed as a way of navigating inner experience through shape, image, material, and silence. Across mediums, her work becomes a site of translation — allowing internal states to surface where words alone are insufficient.

 

Rose is drawn to moments of quiet tension: where structure meets softness, where containment gives way to growth, and where meaning emerges through restraint rather than declaration. Whether in image, object, or poem, she approaches art-making as a process of exploration — a way of listening to different parts of the self and giving them form.

 

Her work does not seek spectacle. Instead, it invites careful looking, offering beauty that unfolds slowly and remains open to interpretation.