, artist statement

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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, representation

*Website design by Albert Hicks IV*

, contact

María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez

mariadlarj@gmail.com

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, education

20222023

NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Division Fellow

20202022

Fulbright Research Fellow, Brazil

20182020

MFA in Painting & Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, CT

20122015

BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY

20102012

Miami-Dade Community College, FL

, residencies

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

, group exhibitions

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

, solo exhibitions

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

, permanent installations

2021

Ibeta, Louis Armstrong House Museum

2017

Mural commissioned by Sharpe-Walentas and NurtureArt, P.S. 147—Brooklyn, NY