Cristina Lei Rodriguez Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1974 -

Cristina Lei Rodriguez was born in 1974 in Miami, Florida where she currently lives and works. In 2002, Rodriguez received an MFA from the California College of Art, San Francisco as well as a BA from Middlebury College in 1996. She has been the artist-in-residence at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami (2007), the International Studio and Curatorial Program of New York (2006), and the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland (2003). Rodriguez influences draw from the high-end world of fashion to the Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) in Desden, Germany. Her sculptures often depict the dance between the abstract and the familiar; she finds ready-made objects and layers them in resin, epoxy, and effervescent paints. Occasionally, she distresses that surface to give the sculptures depth of character, otherwise the finished surface remains pristine and polished. Rodriquez’s work is at one time dark and at the same time ethereal which functions so as to highlight the tension between the natural and the artificial in both nature and society. Her selected solo exhibitions include: Infinite Source , de la Cruz Collection, Miami (2013); Semi-Precious , M Building, Miami (2013); Recover , Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy (2012); Change , Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami (2011); Through Excess and Ruin , Team Gallery, New York (2011); Forever , Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, California (2011). Selected group exhibitions include: War Baby/ Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art , Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, Washington (2013); War Baby/ Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art , DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois (2013); A Discourse on Plants , RH Gallery, New York (2013); Store Windows: Live Transmission in collaboration with Erin Ellen Kelly , TC: Temporary Contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2012); In the Name of the Artists , Astrup Fearnley Collection,
 Bienal Pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil (2011); Hotel Paradies , Heaven: 2 nd Athens Biennale 2009, Greece. Rodriguez’s work can be found in the Rubell Family Collection, Miami. In 2013, she was featured in the investigative book, Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process, written by artist Sarah Trigg and published by the Princeton Architectural Press.