Guillermo Rodríguez
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1986. Lives and Works in San Juan.
Education
2014 Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, MA Curaduría en Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Goldsmith’s College, University of London, BA (Hons.) Art Practice, New Cross, London
2007 Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Bellas Artes (Sculpture) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Áurea, National Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2018 Diagonal de Luz, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2016 Mineralia, Holz Kohlen Koks, Berlin, Germany
2015 Haz, Recinto Cerra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2015 Reintegro, Colmado Abreu, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
2012 El Luthier, La Ene – Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 La Isla que se Repite, Laguna Torrecillas, Loiza, Puerto Rico
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023 Natura, El Portal del Bosque Nacional del Yunque, El Yunque National Rainforest, Río Grande, P.R.
2021 Entre formas, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R.
2021 El Momento del Yagrumo, curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2017 Azul da Estrela, Baró Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
2016 Hot, Produce Model Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2015 Open, Curated by Bojan Sarcevic, Salon Mondial, Basel, Switzerland.
2014 Final del Juego Curaduria: Laeticia Mello, Fundacion PROA Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 C-32 Sucursal, MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 Artesur: Collective Fictions as part of Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012 Artes e Ofícios1- para todos Evento paralelo ao calendario oficial da 30a Bienal de Sao Paulo Galpão do Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2012 11a Bienal de la Habana ‘Detrás del Muro’ (‘Behind the Wall’), La Habana, Cuba
2011 1a Gran Bienal Tropical ‘Trópico Abierto’ Curated by Pablo León de la Barra, Loíza Puerto Rico
2009 (New) Cross Atlantic as part of Deptford X Visual Art Festival, Old Police Station. London, U.K.
Curating
2024 El Contrato Natural, Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
2023 Downbeat, Artists: Rosa Barba, Pelenakeke Brown, Renee Gladman, Autumn Knight, Zoe Leonard, Joseph Liatela, Emma McNally, Maia Cruz Palileo, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Carlos Reyes, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2022 KIOSK, Artists: Rebecca Adorno, Javier Bosques, Ivelisse Jimenez, Melvin Martinez, Natalia Martinez, Danny Rivera Cruz, Chaveli Sifre Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, NY, USA
2019 CROMÁNTICA de Chaveli Sifre, El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico2018 Animismo Casero, Artists: Rebecca Adorno, Javier Bosques, Ivelisse Jimenez, Natalia Martinez, Danny Rivera Cruz,
Chaveli Sifre. Antiguo arsenal de la marina española, San Juan, P.R.
2018 VEIL, Artists: Rebecca Adorno, Javier Bosques, Ivelisse Jimenez, Natalia Martinez, Danny Rivera Cruz, Guillermo Rodríguez, Chaveli Sifre , Produce Model Gallery, Chicago
2018 Balancing a blade on diamond grass (Balancing a diamond on a blade of grass). Artists: Rebecca Adorno, Javier Bosques, Natalia Martinez, Danny Rivera Cruz, Chaveli Sifre. El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2017 Herbaria, Co-curaduría con Caridad Blanco, Artists: Javier Bosques, Jorge Gonzalez and Beatriz Santiago-Munoz, Elizabet Cervino Lastre, Jose Yaque, Lester Alveraz Meno, Yornel Martinez, Chaveli Sifre. Centro para el Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, la Habana, Cuba
2016 Materia Prima, Artists: Jorge Gonzalez and Beatriz Santiago-Munoz, at La Estacion
2016 Founded La Estación Espacial, San Juan, Puerto Rico, with Xenia Benivolski, Paula Borghi, Alia Farid, Natasha Ginwala, Rodrigo Hernandez, Jose Huidobro, Andres Pereira- Paz, Chaveli Sifre Riestra, Marina Torre. www.laestacionespacial.com
2014 Naranjito y otros videos de Javier Bosques, LA ENE Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Destejiendo el Arcoiris Artists: Fernanda Barreto, Javier Bosques, Andres Pereira-Paz, Avalancha (Galeria) Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Parábolas del Agua –an Exhibition of Contemporary Cuban Art (guest curator), Artists: Elizabet Cervino Lastre, Jose Eduardo Yaque Llorente, Lester Alvarez Meno, Marianela Orozco, Diana Fonseca. Wasp. Artists’ Studios, The Briggait Glasgow, Scotland
Grants and Fellowships
2023 Caribbean Cultural Institute (PAMM) Artist Fellowship
2022 ICI Curatorial Research Fellowship, Marian Goodman Gallery Initiative in honor of the late Okwui Enwezor
2017 Visa Pour la Creation Awarded by Institut Français
2015 El Serrucho, Awarded by Beta Local
2012 Banff Centre, Jim Dinning & Evelyn Main Endowed Scholarship for Visual Artists
2010 Henry Moore Foundation Grant for the development of Parabolas del Agua –an Exhibition of Contemporary Cuban Art.
Residencies
2019 Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL, USA
2019 Residencia Artistica FAAP, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2018 Residencia Artística TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
2017-18 Dos Mares Residency – Funded by Institut Français, Marseille, France
2017 Residencia Saracvra, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2017 Uberbau-house Programa de Residências de Pesquisa na Arte Contemporânea – Organized by Curatoria Forense, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015 Davidoff Art Initiative Residency, with Chus Martinez. A collaboration between Atelier Mondial and HGK FHNW, Basel, Switzerland.
2015-16 La Practica, Beta Local. San Juan, Puerto Rico
2012 The Banff Centre Visual Arts Residency: The Decapitated Museum with Vincent Normand, Etienne Chambaud and Domenique Gonzalez-Foerster. Alberta, Canada.
Publications (Selection)
2017 Johannes Willi: Free Willi 2 – Freiheit in Gefahr Hrsg. vom Kunstmuseum Basel / Redaktion: Eveline Wüthrich, Johannes Willi / Mit Texten von Eva Falge, Philipp Selzer,
Johannes Willi, Ingela Ihrman, Deng Dafei, Shuang Li, Li Ming, Wu Junyong, anothermountainman, Ignazio Mortellaro, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Dino Real, Guillermo Rodriguez
2014 Sucursal, La Ene en MALBA Malba- Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina2013 Decolonial AestheSis at the 11th Havana Biennial’, Social Text Journal, Decolonial Aesthesis issue edited by Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vazquez.
2013 Arte-Sur Collective Fictions, Introduction Palais, Le Magazine du Palais de Tokyo, June 2013: pp. 90-95
2012 Oncena Bienal de la Habana: Prácticas Artisticas e Imaginarios Sociales, Canals Feitas, W. Ed. Maretti Editore, Roma. pp. 83- 84.
2009 Frescos: 50 artistas puertorriqueños menores de 35 Nogueras, C. Ed. Muuaaa, San Juan. pp. 256- 257.
Open Talks and Lectures
2017 Grafismo cismático: la función del arte como herramienta epistémica, Uberbau House, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2015 Art Talk, Institut Visuelle Kommunikation der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Open Source Aesthetics, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico