El camino de Combate
2023
Gamaliel Rodríguez
Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Gamaliel Rodríguez
Gamaliel Rodríguez was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in 1977. He received his BA from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (San Juan, Puerto Rico) in 2004 and an MFA from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in the UK in 2005. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. He has participated in numerous residencies and fellowships such as the MacDowell Fellowship in 2012 and the International Studio & Curatorial Program Residency in 2013. In 2021, Rodríguez had a solo exhibition at MASS MoCA. He has exhibited his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; SCAD Museum in Savannah, GA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; DA2 Salamanca in Spain; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. His work is in the collections of major museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and SCAD Museum of Art. Rodriguez’s works are featured in the third edition of the book Vitamin D3: today's best in contemporary drawing (Phaidon Books, 2021).
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024
Website / Social Links
Working with pencil, ink, acrylic and ballpoint pen, I manipulate my memories into dystopian, apocalyptic drawings that imagine the collapse of global infrastructure or even economics into ruin. My work makes reference to the infrastructural failures that make residing in Puerto Rico difficult, while challenging pictorial conventions that depict the tropics as paradisiacal.”