Dagoberto rodríguez biography

Dagoberto Rodríguez was.
Dagoberto Rodríguez, a renowned Cuban artist born in 1969, founded Los Carpinteros in 1994 and has works in the permanent exhibition of the MOMA in New.
Dagoberto Rodríguez was born on in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

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Born 1969, Cuba

Dagoberto Rodriguez lives and works between Madrid and Havana.

Dagoberto Rodriguez Sanchez was born 1969 in Caibarién, Las Villas and graduated from Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), La Habana, Cuba in 1994. In 1992 he co-founded the collective Los Carpinteros. Their works have been exhibited in Museums and cultural institutions around the world, such as MOMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London and Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid among others.

Dagoberto Rodriguez is currently based working between Madrid and Habana. Combining architecture, design and sculpture, his work employs humor and irony to comment on core topics in art, politics and society. Watercolor forms a very important part of his creative process, it is a way of collaborating, registering and revising his ideas. Often these reflect a fantasy of a possible conceptual situation.

Selected Exhibitions

2024
Retropia

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Dagoberto Rodriguez: MARS STORM

September 15 – January 28, 2023

Presenting for the first time, at Miami’s Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Cuban conceptual artist Dagoberto Rodríguez, reveals MARS STORM, curated by Simon Njami.

Miami’s Fundación Pablo Atchugarry is pleased to announce MARS STORM, an inaugural solo exhibition by one of the most influential and widely recognized Cuban artists of the 21st century, Dagoberto Rodríguez. Curated by Simon Njami, MARS STORM, debuts a collection of never-before-seen satellite oil paintings that depict the remains of a fallen world. “After having colonized the world, humans are dreaming of colonizing the universe. Have they learned their lessons before envisioning such an adventure?” posits, curator, Simon Njami.

Positioning the exhibition space as an archaeological site, MARS STORM, reflects on the ineffable state of the human condition as Rodríguez sees it, taking a metaphorical and poetic approach to convey an archeology of the future, wherein the past, the present and the future are interwoven without any deli

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Museo Kaluz, Mexico City, Mexico.

Colección de Arte Chocolate Cortés, San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, USA.

Colección MACA, Uruguay.

Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Colección de Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami, USA.

Colección Solo, Madrid, Spain.

Arizona State University, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.

Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, México DF, México.

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo A.C., México DF, México.

Cisneros Foundation, Miami, Florida, EUA.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Cincinnati Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Coral Capital Art Collection, Ciudad Panama, Panama.

Daros Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Farber Collection