rocío rodríguez
Rocío Rodríguez has been in over thirty solo exhibitions in contemporary art centers, museums and private galleries and has participated in over ninety national curated exhibitions. She is the recipient of various national and regional awards among them Anonymous Was a Woman Award 2018, the Artadia Atlanta 2011 award, a Cintas Fellowship, an Affiliated Fellowship Award at the American Academy in Rome, Italy and two SAF/NEA Fellowships. She has had two major retrospectives of her work, Divergent Fictions: Selected Works from 1988-2012 at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, GA, 2012 and a retrospective of her drawings, Thirty Years on Paper at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2019. In 2014 she was awarded an Artist Residency at the Marfa Contemporary in Marfa, Texas where she also had a solo exhibition in July of 2015. Ms. Rodríguez’s work is in numerous international private collections and public national collections among them the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, the Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, ALA, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FLA, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. Her work has been featured in two books; Out of the Rubble and NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape.
Ms. Rodríguez was born in Cuba and came to the US in 1961. She received both her MFA and BFA degrees from the University of Georgia and she is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, GA and by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NYC.