Bert Rodriguez
What A Tree Feels Like (Bass Museum), 2010
Performance based installation
Dimensions variable
A project in which the artist was planted standing straight up in the ground on the museum lawn for one day from sun up to sun down.
BIOGRAPHY
b. 1975, Miami, FL
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1999
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Portland, ME
1998
BFA, New World School of the Arts, University of Florida
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
A Meal I Make with My Mother, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA
Perfect Strangers, Milsaps College, Jackson, MS
2010
Has Art?: Exhibition 3 of 12, Lawrimore Projects, Seattle, WA
A Man Called Bert, Annarumma 404, Naples, Italy
I’ll Cross That Bridge When I Get To It, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
In Your Own Image: The Best of Bert Rodriguez Greatest Hits Vol. I, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL
2008
For Sale, Snitzer/Arregui Projects, Hamptons, NY
Espace Experimental, Le Plateau, FRAC Ile de France, Paris, France
2007
Advertising Works!, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Intervenciones 2007, MARTE, Museum of Art El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
2005
Almost There: Portrait of a (Lazy) Genius, Artek Contemporaries, New York, NY
2004
The Gifts I Could Never Give You, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2001
( ), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2000
Recent Videos, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Bert Rodriguez: A Pre-Career Retrospective, Centre Gallery, Miami, FL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
A Longer Shinbone, Girl's Club, Miami, FL
2010
New Work Miami 2010, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Miami Media Mesh, American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
114 Steps, Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin, DE
Parenthesis, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
Spite House, Lawrimore Projects, Seattle, WA
Convention, MOCA, North Miami, Miami, FL
SMALL, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Confection, OHWOW, Miami, FL
2008
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Disappearances, Shadows & Illusions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Hortt 40, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2007
Sleepless Nights, Public Project, Miami Beach, FL
Site Specific Installation, SONOM, Monterrey, Mexico
Pressing Pause, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2006
Left Behind, Hesperides, and ..., Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
Native Seeds, Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL
Something, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2005
Boomerang, Miami Light Box, Miami, FL
MOCA and Miami, MOCA North Miami, Miami, FL
Brought Together Again, New World Gallery, Miami, FL
Co Operate, Buena Vista Building, Miami, FL
At This Time, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
A Little Romance: Selections From The Permanent Collection, MOCA, Miami, FL
2004
Faith, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Domestic Arrivals, White Box, New York, NY
Becoming Father, becoming Infant, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Definitive Juxt, Odegard Building, Miami, FL
Lock Stock And Barrel, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
52, The Art Nucleus, Portland, OR
2003
Florida Focus: Miami Hot, Gulf Coast Museum Of Art, Largo, FL
...But Seriously, The Moore Building, Miami, FL
Made In Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2002
Motel, site-specific installation, San Juan Motel, Miami, FL
That Place, MIA Gallery, Miami International Airport
That Place, The Moore Building, Miami, FL
Miami in Manhattan, Wooster Projects, New York, NY
2001
glove>miami<island, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Eight Solo Shows, Carlos Betancourt Studio, Miami, FL
Skins, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Video Spill, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
2000
Robots, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Publikulture, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality, MoCA, North Miami, FL
Young Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
New Art So FL, South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic
University, Boca Raton, FL
Apples from the Tree: where we landed from the stars, H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Departing Persepctives, site-specific installation, Espirito Santo Bldg., Miami, FL
1998
The Fashion Issue, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
HONORS AND AWARDS
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
Miami-Dade College Hall of Fame inductee
Miami-Dade County Site-Specific Arts Commission
Legal Art, Inaugural Artist Grand Award
South Florida Cultural Visual Arts Fellowship Award
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
SELECTED WORKS
