Born:  Caibarién, L.V. Cuba
Education:  MFA 1979, BFA 1975, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
Residency, Fundación Valparaíso, Mójacar, Spain, 2003
Southern Regional Visiting Artist Award at the American Academy in Rome- 1996-97
Southern Arts Federation National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowships-
      Works on Paper 1996, Painting - 1990
Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts- City of Atlanta, Painting- l990
Oscar B.Cintas Fellowship- 1980
Ford Foundation Fellowship- 1978
              
SELECTED ONE PERSON SHOW
2008        Rocio Rodriguez, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga., February 20 – March 28.
2006        Transgressions: New Paintings, Rocío Rodríguez , Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh.,
              September 8 – December 23, 2006.
              - Rocío Rodríguez, Parallels, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta Ga.
              January 27 – March 25.
2005        Rocío Rodríguez, Summation, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
2004        Rocio Rodriguez, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
2001        Dual Nature, Paintings by Rocío Rodríguez, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
2000        Rocío Rodríguez, Temporary Contemporary Series, Cheekwood The Museum of Art, Nashville, Tenn.
1999        Rocío Rodríguez, Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
1999        Ambos Mundos, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC
1998        New Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.                                                 
1996        Rocío Rodríguez, Five Years, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Ga.
1995        Paintings and Drawings, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
1993        Paintings and Drawings, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.                                               
1991        Paintings and Drawings, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
1989        Paintings and Drawings, McIntosh Gallery,  and the Arts Exchange, Atlanta, Ga.
1985        New Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh.
1984        Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh.
1982        Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND INVITATIONALS
2009        The Painter’s Reel, Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Ga. January 30 – April 25.
              The Telfair Museum, Savannah, Ga. dates to be decided.
2007        The Velocity of Gesture or How to build and Empire, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College
              Atlanta, Ga. 
2006        Au Courant, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, Az.
              Change, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Ga.
2005        30th Parallel a Convergence of Contemporary Painting, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art,
              Jacksonville, Fla.
              Blooming, A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2004        Redefining Georgia: Perspectivas en Arte Contemporaneo, Columbus Museum of Art,
              Columbus, Georgia.
2003        The Armory Show, International Fair of New Art, Pier 90, Fay Gold Gallery, New York
2002        The Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga.
              Georgia Triennial, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Ga., Museum of Art and Science, Macon, Ga
              The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., The Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Ga. 
2001        Marking Time, Brenau University Galleries, Brenau University, Gainesville, Ga.
2001        Art Chicago 2001, The Navy Pier Show, Chicago, Illinois, (exhibitor Fay Gold Gallery)
1999        Summer Group Exhibition, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
1998        New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La.                                          
1998        Breaking Barriers, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Tampa Museum of Art
1997        Joy of the Journey: Visual Accounts of Ten Women Artists in Georgia, Spelman College                Museum,                 Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga. 
              BIG, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga.
              Winners of SAF/NEA fellowships Paintings, Drawings, Works on Paper,
                   Southeast Center of Contemporary Art, (SECCA) Winston- Salem, NC.
1996        9 Women in Georgia, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. and   Swann House                    Coach Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.                                                                                          
1995        The Visual Arts in Georgia; A Sampler, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga.
1994        1994 Montgomery Biennial, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,          
              Montgomery, Ala.
1991        Vital Signs, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Ga.
1990        Acquisitions funded by the Lannan Foundation, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga. 1989               Birmingham               Biennial, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala.
              Latin American Artists of the Southeast Coastal Region, Contemporary Art Center,
              New Orleans, La.                                                                                                                                      State of the Arts of Georgia, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, La.     
1988        Southern Expressions ‘A Sense of Self’, Six Artists, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga.

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga.
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga.
Florida International University Museum, Miami, Fla.
Hartsfield International Airport, International Concourse E, E6, Atlanta, Ga. (Commission)
Chase Manhattan Bank of Ohio, Dayton, Oh.
Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, Raritan, N.J.
Hyatt Hotels Corp., Atlanta, Ga., Columbus, Oh., Rochester, N.Y. (Commission)
Kidder Peabody & Co., Atlanta, Ga.
King & Spalding, Atlanta, Ga.
Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Ga.
Troutman & Sanders, Atlanta, Ga. (Commission)
Mead Corporation, Dayton, Oh.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Artforum, May 2008, XLVI no.9,  Atlanta, “Rocio Rodriguez”, Reviews, p. 387, review by Philip Auslander.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, March 9, 2008, Rodriguez: Layers mix, elements, meanings. Visual Arts and Architecture Sec., p.K7, review by Deborah Wolf.
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Februrary 19, 2006, “A World of Anxiety Emerges: Rocío Rodríguez, Parallels”, Visual Arts, Sec. Art and Books, p.5, review by Catherine Fox.
The Washington Post, Arts, March 18, 1999, “Memories in the Abstract”, p. C5, by Ferdinand Protzman.
Art In America, March 1999, “Report from New Orleans/Southern Discomfort, no.3,p.67, by Michael Plante.
Atlanta Journal & Constitution, February 9, l996, “Rodríguez, Lindsay take personal, cultural journeys”, Visual Arts Sec., p.22, by Glenn Harper.
Art Papers, October-November 1995, “Rocío Rodríguez at Sandler Hudson Gallery”, p.59, by Kathy L. Maschke.
Atlanta Journal & Constitution, June 9, l995, “Smudged Effects Reveal Rodríguez’s State of Mind”, Visual Arts, p.20, by Catherine Fox.
New Art Examiner, May 1992, Recipients of the Southern Arts Federation, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards 1990- Special Insert. Essay by Carrie Przybilla.                                                    
Art in America, September 1989, “Atlanta-Rocío Rodríguez at McIntosh and the Arts Exchange”, p.217
Vol. 77, no. 9, by Amy Jinkner-Lloyd