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CRISTINA LEI RODRIGUEZ

Born in 1974, in Miami, FL, lives and works in Miami, FL

EDUCATION 

2002 MFA, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
1996 BA, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2022 Sun Scans New Growth, MIA Galleries, Miami International Airport

2020 Digitizing the Phenomena of Nature (Orchids at Sunrise), Miami Design District

2019 Royal Poinciana (a micro/ macro study), The Business School at University of Miami, FL
2019 Pop-Up, Miami Design District, FL
2017 Crystalized, Tod’s, Miami, FL
2016 Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Sotheby’s, Miami, FL
2015 Agency, Guccivuitton, Miami, FL
2014 Gold Mine, FAENA Art at Casa Claridge, Miami, FL and Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchse, NY
2014 Polychrome (BAM, 1908), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Peter Jay Sharp Building, New York, NY
2013 Infinite Source, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL
2013 Semi-Precious, M Building, Miami, FL
2012 Recover, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 
2011 Change, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, USA
2011 Through Excess and Ruin, Team Gallery, NY, USA
2011 Forever, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, USA
2008 New Work, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA
2008 Overrun, Team Gallery, NY, USA
2007 Struggling for Grandeur, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, USA
2006 Endless Autumn, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, USA
2005 Cristina Lei Rodriguez: New Works, Rocket Projects, Miami, USA
2002 Daydreaming in the California Landscape, Oakland Museum of California, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Making Miami, Miami, FL

2022 Rebel/ Re-Belle, Asheville Art Museum, NC

2021 A landscape longed for: the garden as disturbance, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2020 Everyone Has A Story To Tell, Sagamore, Miami Florida
Combined Strength, Minotti, Miami, FL

2019 The Looks of Freedom II, For Freedoms and Blackpuffin, Untitled Art Fair, Miami
A Shared Platform, Collective 62, Miami, FL
Collabo6 - All In!, Miami, FL

2015 100+ Degrees in The Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art, Miami, FL 33155
GOLD, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
GUCCIVUITTON, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
White on White, Design Pub, Miami, FL

2014 GOLD, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Santos: A David Castillo Pop Up, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
#101MANMADE, Design Pub Fair, Miami, FL

2013 War Baby/ Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA
War Baby/ Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, New York, NY

2012 StoreFront, de la Cruz Collection and The Miami Design District, Miami, FL
Store Windows (Walgreens, South Beach), TC: Temporary Contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, 
Store Windows: Live Transmission in collaboration with Erin Ellen Kelly, TC: Temporary Contemporary,  
Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL

2011 In the Name of the Artists, Astrup Fearnley Collection,
Bienal pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil
Liquid Matter, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Aesthetics and Values, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL 

2010 Paper, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL 
Spreading the Influence, Olin Art Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

2009 Greenhouse (Prinz Valdemar, 1926), Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Projects, Miami, FL
de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL
Workshop Workshop, Design Miami, Miami, FL
Hotel Paradies, Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale 2009, Athens, Greece
Il Giardino del Lauri: The Angela and Massimo Lauro Collection, Perugia, Italy
And the fair MOON rejoices -Contemporary Visionaries in the Wake of Blake, Boston Center for the 
Arts, Boston, MA
Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Cintas Fellow Exhibition, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Born in the Morning, Dead by Night, Leo Koenig, New York, NY
In the Garden at 4am, Gana Art, New York, NY

2008 Possibility of an Island, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 
Uncertain States of America, Songzhuan Art Center Beijing, China 
Red Wind, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA 
Nature Morte, Roher Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Detour, Printemps Design au Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2007 CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA 
Homegrown, David Krut, New York, NY
Foam of the Daze, Smith Stewart, New York, NY
Other Worlds: The Landscape in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, FL 
Uncertain States of America, La Musée de Sérignon, Serignan, France 
Uncertain States of America, The Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark, 
Uncertain States of America, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

2006 Heartbreaker, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Uncertain States of America, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Art Parade, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Trenton Duerksen, Leandro Erlich, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Martin Oppel...,Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin,  
Paris, France
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Uncertain States of America, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY 
Contamination, Centro Cultural Español, Miami, FL, curated by Gene Moreno 

2005 The Yard@ CasaLin, with Shane Aslan Selzer, Miami, FL
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway curated by Daniel 
Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar Kvaran
Beautiful Debris, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA 
At This Time, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, curated by Mark Coetzee 

2004 Reclaiming Ruins, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL 
Material Faith, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 
Pattern Playback, The Moore Space, Miami, FL, curated by Silvia Cubiña 
Young Miami, Annina Nosei, New York, NY 
Gypsies Curse, Wormhole Laboratory, DACRA, Miami, FL 
Dr. Moreau Explains, Stray Show, Wormhole Laboratory, Chicago, IL
If You Believe Hard Enough, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL

2003 Enchanting Intruder, Rocket Projects, Artist Project, Miami, FL
Haunted, Wormhole Laboratory, Group Exhibition, Miami, FL
Trespass, Insight Gallery/Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Group Exhibition, Aruba
Popped, WORKS/SAN JOSE, Performance Event, San Jose, CA 
Fictional Science, Here/ART, Group Exhibition, New York, NY 
Fantastical Spaces, Frightful Places, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

2002 Arte Latino: the Smithsonian Collection, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1111, California College of Arts and Crafts, MFA Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
FUEL, Group Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts San Francisco, CA 
Coast, Group exhibition, A Bernal Heights, PONY Show, San Francisco, CA

2001 Think Again, Southern Exposure, juried by Miwon Kwon curator, San Francisco, CA
Time, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Group exhibition, Honolulu, HI,


PUBLIC ART COMISSIONS

2022 Nature Studies in Three Works 2020-2022, Miami International Airport
2022 Homegrown, Westchester Cultural Arts Center, Miami, FL 
2018 Glasswinged Butterfly, Coconut Creek, FL
2017 The Fitzgerald, Tampa, FL

COLLECTIONS:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami
The Bass, Miami
de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Rubell Collection, Miami
Boca Raton Museum of Art
NSU Ft Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale
Frost Museum of Art, Miami

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