Guillermo Rodriguez (San Juan, 1986) studied fine arts and
sculpture at the University of Puerto Rico. He completed a
Bachelor of Art (Honors) in Art Practice at Goldsmiths College,
University of London in 2010 and attended a Master's programe in
Curating Visual Arts at Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in
Argentina. He has participated in the Rauschemberg Foundation
Residency, the Banff Centre Visual Arts Residency, inaugurated
the The Davidoff Arts Initiative Residency in Basel and exhibited in
the 11th Havana Biennial: Práctica Artísticas e Imaginarios
Sociales, Artesur: Collective Fictions at the Palais de Tokyo
(Paris), Final del Juego at Fundación Proa (Buenos Aires) and
Entre Formas at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. As part of his
fellowship with Beta-Local in 2016, he founded and directed the
transitory exhibition platform La Estacion Espacial. Rodríguez has
recently curated Herbaria at Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes
Visuales in la Habana, CROMÁNTICA de Chaveli Sifre, Balancing
a Blade on Diamond Grass (Balancing a Diamond on a Blade of
Grass) at El Lobi, in San Juan and KIOSK at Cuchifritos Gallery +
Project Space in New York.
Statement:
My current practice considers artistic agency as an epistemic
endeavor; an exploration of form and matter as means to convey
meaning –a way of thinking with and through objects and images.
Questioning the role and limits of artistic and institutional
structures, this speculative methodology of work has lead me to
expand my artistic practice from three dimensional object
production into a spatial/installation based practice, and from there
on to the realm of exhibition making and curating.