2024
Carissa Rodriguez
"I am grateful to Artists & Mothers for recognizing that social reproduction, or more simply put– the care work that holds us together as families and communities is a vital part of what makes art possible. By addressing the crisis of care that so many of us are experiencing, Artists & Mothers stepped in to provide much needed support. I am honored to be a part of the grassroots initiative to further the conversation on the value we place not just on art, but on the lives of its makers.”
Carissa Rodriguez, June 2024
Film still from Imitation of Life (04/09/24), 2024 4K Video, Farbe, Ton / 4K video, color, sound; LED Screen 22:33 min. Courtesy the artist.
Film still from Imitation of Life (04/09/24), 2024 4K Video, Farbe, Ton / 4K video, color, sound; LED Screen 22:33 min. Courtesy the artist.
Installation view: Carissa Rodriguez, Imitation of Life, Kunstverein München, Munich, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Kunstverein München e.V.; photo: Maximilian Geuter.
Biography
Carissa Rodriguez was born in 1970 in New York City and lives and works in New York City. Her solo exhibition Imitation of Life is currently on view at Kunstverein Munich through August 2024. Solo institutional exhibitions include The Art Institute of Chicago (2020), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2018), SculptureCenter, New York (2018), Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2015). Rodriguez participated in the Whitney Biennials of 2014 and 2019 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Literature from Eugene Lang College at The New School, New York (1994) and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2001–02). Rodriguez taught at Harvard University in the Department of Art Film and Visual Studies (2018–22) and is a two-time recipient of Harvard’s Film Study Center Fellowship (2019–20 and 2020–21). In 2021, Rodriguez was the Henry Wolf Chair at Cooper Union. In 2018, she received the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant to Visual Artists. Rodriguez was a core member of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York from 2004 to 2015.
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