Shellyne Rodriguez

b.1977 Bronx, New York

 

Education

 

2014 MFA Visual Arts, Hunter College, New York, NY

2011 BFA Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

 

 

Teaching experience

 

2018- present          School of Visual Arts, Adjunct Professor: Art History, Thesis Advisory

2017- present          Hunter College, Adjunct Professor: Drawing, Painting, Interdisciplinary studies

  2012- 2020           The Museum of Modern Art, NY Teaching Artist, Community and Access/ Night Studio Program

 

Selected Shows

 

2023 Solo exhibition, PPOW gallery (Forthcoming, March 2023)

 

2021 Siempre En La Calle, Calderon gallery, NY, NY

2021 80 Blocks from Tiffany (online exhibition) Bronx Museum of the Arts

 

2020 The Future is Latinx, Eastern Connecticut State University, CT

2020 Bound Up Together Smack Mellon Brooklyn, NY

2020 Jammed into a Paradox, 601 Artspace, NY, NY (online exhibition)

2020 The Cookout: Kinfolk and Other Intimacies, MoCada Museum, Brooklyn NY (online exhibition)

2019 What is Here is Open, Selections from the Trash Collection, Hunter East Harlem gallery

2019 Pasado y Presente: Art after the Young Lords 1969-2019, Nathan Cummings Foundation

2019 PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity, Artist in residence, curator, NYU

2019 What is Here is Open, Selections from the Trash Collection, Hunter East Harlem gallery

2019 Pasado y Presente: Art after the Young Lords 1969-2019, Nathan Cummings Foundation

2019 PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity, Artist in residence/curator, NYU

2018 Original Language, Cue Art Foundation, New York NY

2018 Bronx Now! Group show, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

2018 FOUR, We Buy Gold, Sargent’s Daughter, New York NY, Curator

2018 Her Art Will Be Cannibal group exhibition, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2018 Living Proof, Hunter East Harlem gallery, NY

2017 Reclaimed Rage; Resistance, Bronx Art Space, Bronx NY

2016 Movement Is Rising: Demystify, Destroy, Rebuild exhibition, Newark, NJ

2016 Fragmentacion, Remix y Reinvento, solo exhibition, Casa Warmi, Quito, Ecuador

2016 We Still Imagine, Make and Read Books, Artist Bookfair, Space776, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Power to the People, Poder Popular, Mural, Art Connects, New York, Corona Queens

2016 Tamir Rice Photo Booth, Window Project, IMI Corona, Queens Museum, NY

2016 Wild Seeds, Temporary Agency, Happy Lucky No. 1 gallery, Brooklyn NY

2016 After the Firmaments Crash Down.. What? Thomas Hunter Space, Hunter College

2015 iPRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York, El Museo Del Barrio, NY

 

Visiting Artist Talks/ Lectures:

 

2022 Abolition Geography: with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Nikhail Pal Singh, & Lisa Lowe, Cooper Union IDS

2022 Insurgent Practices against Neoliberalism: with Jane Dickson & Sarah Schulman, SVA

2022 Global Abolition in Visual art: with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College

2022 Shellyne Rodriguez, Artist talk, Greenwich House, NY

2021 Shellyne Rodriguez, Artist Talk, Wellesley College, MA

2021 Modernity is an Imperial Crime: with Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Dalaeja Foreman, & Nitasha Dhillon

2021 Radical Kinship & Political Belonging: with Lisa Duggan, Che Gossett, & Layal Ftouni, CSGS, NYU

2019 THESE ARE THE BREAKS: Race, Class, Gentrification, & Hip Hop in Film, Yale Union, Portland OR

2019 Shellyne Rodriguez, Artist Talk, School of Visual Arts, Roma, Italy

2017 Erasure by Exclusion, How Art Schools & Institutions Uphold White Supremacy, SVA theatre

2017 Artists Inside the Gated Citadel...What’s Next? VCU, Richmond, Virginia

2016 The Let Down, Lecture, Black Matters Conference, UT Austin

2016  Visiting  Artist  Conversation Series, Lecture, MoCADA

2015 iPRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York, Artist talk, El Museo Del Barrio

 

Select Press

 

2022 Widewalls “Shellyne Rodriguez Now Represented by PPOW gallery” Editorial

2021 New York Times “On Governors Island, Art Interventions Everywhere” Roberta Smith May 11, 2021

2021 Boston Review “Bringing Abolition to the Museum,” Billy Anania June 17, 2021

2021 Hyperallergic “Two Artists from the perspectives of those Displaced” Arlene Davila Dec. 2, 2021

2021 Latinx Project ‘Siempre en la Calle” review, Alex Santana, Dec. 15, 2021

2021 New York Times “Expanding the Scope of Latin American Art” Holland Cotter Dec. 16, 2021

2020 Hyperallergic” Shellyne Rodriguez’s Drawings expand the Definition of Essential Workers Aug. 17, 2020

2020 Artforum “After the Plaster Foundation, or, ‘Where can we live?’ Andreas Petrossiants Nov. 25, 2020

2018 Hyperallergic “A Sanitation Worker’s Collection of Salvaged Objects,” Sept. 7, 2019

2017 ARTmargins MIT “Memorialization and Presence Arnaldo Cruz- Malave”, June, 2017

2015 MoMA Blog: Moving Through the Migration Series: An Interview with Shellyne Rodriguez, June 18,2015

 

Bibliography

 

2022 “Jane Dickson Paints the New York that Raised Me” James Fuentes Press

2021 On the Value of Visibility: Reflections on Decolonial Attempts at Photography, June 2021

2021 “Infrastructures of Critique” Diversity of Aesthetics Vol.1

2019 New Inquiry “Disaster Act: Puerto Rico’s Uprising & Lin-Manuel Miranda” Sept. 11, 2019

2019 “Two readings on Mistaken Identity,” ASAP Journal June 27, 2019

2018 “How the Bronx was Branded,” The New Inquiry Dec. 12, 2018

2014 MoMA Blog: Shadows and Selves, Feb. 20, 2014

 

Residencies/Awards

 

TBD Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island

2022 Greenwich House Ceramic Residency, NY

2022 BRIO, Bronx Council of the Arts Award, Bronx,NY

2019 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP fellow

2018 Inaugural artist in residence, Latinx Project, NYU

2018 Public Sculpture Percent for Art Commission, Bronx NY

 

Collections

Bronx Museum of Art

Museum of the City of New York

New York Historical Society