Rosy Campanita is a queer 2-Spirit artist and axolotl midwife, born to a Mexican immigrant family and raised in La Villita and Pilsen, Chicago. Since 2003, Rosy Campanita has been photo-documenting cultural life, land struggle, and resilience with a focus on Indigenous communities, immigration, and LGBTQIA communities throughout the so-called “United States” and "Mexico".

In 2023, Rosy started silk screen printing their photos on fabrics and upcycled clothes and formed Rebel Axolotl Collective. Through the collective, Rosy has collaborated with local Indigenous artists and craftspeople, vending at markets around Austin. Previously exhibiting mostly in galleries, Rosy was inspired to bring their photography to fabric because it took their work out of conventional gallery spaces and into the streets as back patches, or on clothes, or in people's kitchens, alters and bedrooms to tell stories of resilience outside of gallery walls.

The heart of Rosy's photography has been deeply inspired by the determination and persistence of Indigenous communities, and particularly the Indigenous communities of the southeast mountains of Chiapas, who gave birth to the Zapatista movement and land struggle in 1994 to demand autonomy over their lands and their lives, in response to the North American Free Trade Agreement that was passed on January 1, 1994.  Calling themselves E.Z.L.N. (Ejercito Zapatista de Libercion Nacional), this group has continued to inspire the artist’s work through their communiqués and their organizing work—living in autonomous communities as a means of challenging colonial systems of authority.