Barbara Carrasco

Barbara Carrasco (born 1955) is a Chicana artist, activist, painter and muralist. She lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work critiques dominant cultural stereotypes involving socioeconomics, race, gender and sexuality, and she is considered to be a radical feminist. Her art has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Her work was exhibited in the 1990-1993 traveling exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation. In 2024, Carrasco's work was included in Xican-a.o.x. Body, an expansive group exhibition on the experiences and contributions by Chicano artists in contemporary culture. The show gathered artworks from the 1960s to the present and it was first in view at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, California, and later traveled to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.