My practice is about my relationship with spirituality. I tell stories of this relationship through materials, and through their power in manifesting embodiment. Drawing, with its potential to shape-shift into sculpture, language and performance, is the medium I most often work through.
These abstracted spaces speak of the contradictory narratives of exiled experiences. I am interested in the many forms of potential and energy (axé) art can have, and how an art object can become transformed into a being imbued with meaning and purpose.
Lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Salvador, Bahia.
b. 1992, Holguín, Cuba.
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María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez
mariadlarj@gmail.com
2022–2023
NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Division Fellow
2020–2022
Fulbright Research Fellow, Brazil
2018–2020
MFA in Painting & Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, CT
2012–2015
BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY
2010–2012
Miami-Dade Community College, FL
2022
Mirante Xique-Xique, Chapada Diamantina, Brazil
2021
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2020
Residency Unlimited, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, NY
2019
SOMA Summer, Mexico City, MX
2019
DAMLI Summer Graduate Fellowship, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
2018
NLS Kingston, Jamaica
2016
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2015
Cooperative TAAK, Marfa Summer School, Marfa, TX
2022
Between The Snakes, curated by Triptych Arts / Piper Ross Ferriter, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, Alabama
2022
What Is Left Unspoken, Love, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2022
Poetics of Place, David Castillo Gallery
2021
We Still Around: HERE, curated by Andréa Delph and Danny Baez, Black Gotham, New York, NY
2021
CURRENTS, curated by Claudia Mattos, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2021
Free As Air and Water, curated by Tajh Rust, Mattatuck Museum, CT
2020
Yale Painting MFA , Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Only When You Are Called, organized by Matt Keegan and Michelle Donnelly, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019
Cut: Abstraction in the U.S, 1970 to the present, curated by Amy Galpin, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2019
New Suns, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, PÁRAMO Gallery, Guadalajara, MX
2018
The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2016
Traded, curated by James Scheuren, Lawndale Art Center Houston, Houston, TX
2016
Meatballs, curated by Carl Ostendarp, Skowhegan, ME
2015
Checkpoint To The Stars, El Paisano Hotel, Marfa, TX
2015
See Something Say Something, curated my Elzie Williams and Stephen Gurtowski, St. Marks Book Store, New York, NY
2021
2 Horizon(te)s. 2 person exhibition alongside Hartmut Austen, curated by Olga Viso, Terzo Piano, Washington D.C
2019
Ojalá, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2018
Si Hay Bien, Hay Mal, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2017
Humanism Under Siege II, collaboration with Architect Pedro G. Esteban, FIERMAN Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Caimanera, The Cooper Union, Senior Thesis Show, New York, NY
2015
Humanism Under Siege I, collaboration with Architect Pedro G. Esteban, The Cooper Union, Benjamin Menschel Exhibition, New York, NY
2021
Ibeta, Louis Armstrong House Museum
2017
Mural commissioned by Sharpe-Walentas and NurtureArt, P.S. 147—Brooklyn, NY