Daniela Rossell was born and raised in Mexico City. She is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher who works solo and collaboratively with cameras, moving images, and words. Her first book, Ricas y Famosas, was described by historian Cuauhtémoc Medina as "among the most significant political works of the art of her country," and by the New York Times as a "photographic journey through Mexico's twilight zone." Solo exhibitions of Rossell's work have been organized by Greene Naftali gallery in New York City, Sprüth Magers Projekte in Munich, and kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City (as part of Siembra). Her work has appeared in numerous books and publications including ArtForum, Frieze, El País, The Guardian, Le Monde, Proceso and TvNovelas, and has been shown internationally at MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, Hammer Museum, SFMOMA, Getty Museum, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, and Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, among others.
Professor Rossell returns to Stanford's Department of Art & Art History for Spring 2026, teaching ARTSTUDI 140: Drawing 1 and ARTSTUDI 242: Drawing and Creative Writing. Her courses invite students to discover their wild originality through hands-on contemplative studio practice, exploring drawing as sustained attention made pleasurable — an antidote in a world that lures us into entertaining ourselves to death.