Dr. Veronica Cordova de la Rosa is an artist working across live art and performance art, photography, and socially engaged practice. She investigates the impact of images of violence on individual and collective well-being and uses practice-based research to physically manifest affect and translate emotion into embodied performance.

Her work has been shown widely in the UK and internationally, including at the Wellcome Collection, Serpentine Gallery, Pitt Rivers Museum, Modern Art Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Pushkin House, and Chino Cultural Complex.

She studied Contemporary Arts (practice-based) at Oxford Brookes University (PhD), Interdisciplinary Arts at Oxford Brookes University (MA, Merit), and holds an MFA and Licenciatura (BA equivalent) in Fine Arts from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Veronica has lectured in a South London prison and at Oxford Brookes University’s School of Arts.

She also facilitates online workshops for researchers and artists, focusing on practice-based research, performance, embodiment, and socially engaged methodologies.

As co-founder and Director of the grassroots non-profit Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER), she curates experimental performance events and has organised small-scale international festivals in academic settings.

Her socially engaged practice includes supporting SEN students in London and developing wellbeing programmes for immigrants, refugees, and vulnerable communities through creative and participatory methodologies.

She is currently working on a funded wellbeing programme in the City of Oxford, where she delivers art-based sessions designed to support mental health and well-being. Her role combines socially engaged creative practice, research, and partnership work with local organisations and community resources to develop and facilitate recovery-focused activities that strengthen resilience, creativity, and social connection.