Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist and researcher, and first generation Chicana raised on the US-Mexico border. Her Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Rodriguez earned her BFA from California Institute of Arts. She has exhibited her works at the Denver Art Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea. Her work is in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, San Marino, CA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; and others. She was awarded the 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency, Creative Capital Award, and Migrations Initiative from Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative and Global Cornell. Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spectrum News 1, and on a range of radio programs and podcasts.
Awards
Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Hermitage Art Retreat, Florida (2023)
Migrations initiative, Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative and Global Cornell (2021)
Creative Capital Award (2021)
Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency (2021)
The Alma Ruiz Artist Fellowship, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA (2020)
City of Los Angeles COLA Master Artist Fellowship (2018-2019)
American for the Arts Public Art Network Year In Review 2017 award (2018)
Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Trailblazer Award (2017-18)
Artist-in-Residence for Los Angeles County Arts Commission (2016-2017)
Artist-in-Residence at Art+Practice in Leimert Park (2014-15)