ISISRODRIGUEZ
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BIOGRAPHY OF ISIS RODRIGUEZ
Isis Rodriguez was born in 1964 in Los Angeles California to a Mexican American father and a Puerto Rican mother. Her first introduction to art was inside the Catholic where she was taught to read oil paintings, sculptures and stain glass as allegorical art. As an child, she taught herself proportion by copying Hannah-Barbera cartoons by hand. As an adult, she attended the University of Kansas where she studied art, mythology, psychology and religion. In 1988, she received her Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting. A year later, Isis was accepted into the radical contemporary art school, The San Francisco Art Institute, to work on her Masters of Fine Art in painting where she explored art for social responsibility and sex positive feminism.
Isis Rodriguez as a child Circla 1970s
San Francisco and Patricia Correa Gallery in Bergomont Station, Los Angeles California.
From 1997- 2006, Isis exhibited nationally in the United States mostly in California. Notable museums include The San Jose Museum of Art, The Triton Museum, Santa Clara, The McPherson Center in Santa Cruz.
In 2006, Isis was awarded an artist residency at the revolutionary "La Curtiduria” by world renown Oaxacan painter, Damian Flores, where she investigated shame and the 16th century Nahua word, “in the middle of things”. While there, the artist underwent a spiritual awakening and she changed her style to Baroque, applying the Italian method of “risparmio” to her oil paintings.
Her international exhibitions in Latin America have been the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, in Argentina, and the prestigious Cervantino Art Festival 2007, Museo Alhóndiga de Granaditas Regional Museum, Guanajuato Mexico.
In 1997, Isis had her first solo exhibition called, “My Life as a Comic Stripper” in San Francisco at Galeria de la Raza, which catapulted her into the California art scene as a “Feminist Low Brow Pop Artist”. She was selected into the 2nd Bay Area Now Exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, which recognizes emerging artists. She was represented by Catherine Clark Gallery in
Isis Rodriguez in her art studio in San Miguel de Allende
Her artwork has been critiqued and published in several books, "Women and Art: Contested Territory" Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie Smith, 1999, "Vicious, Delicious, and Ambitious: 20th Century Women Artists” Sherri Cullison, 2002, and “Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities” Laura E. Pérez, 2007 and “Exotic Resistance” by Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa 2024. Currently, Isis lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico where she continues to paint and exhibit her works.
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