Represented artist

Víctor Rodriguez was born in Mexico City in 1970 and has lived in Brooklyn since the mid-1990s. Self-taught, his first solo exhibition was presented in New York with the OK Harris gallery, at the invitation of renowned art dealer Ivan Karp. Karp was co-director of the emblematic Leo Castelli gallery, which allowed him to collaborate with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, and present important individual exhibitions before creating his own project that pioneered the spread of photorealism, a branch of contemporary painting from which Víctor Rodríguez emanates. During the transition from the 20th to the 21st century, figurative painting, especially photorealism, represented, in Rodriguez's words, "a necessity and a heresy"; the beginning of “a path that today is accepted and exercised by the younger generations”. Víctor Rodríguez's painting is based on the argument that photorealism "is more than a form and the absence of content", he says: "I use it as a language, and vaguely, among others, because I am not even interested in the perfection of its manufacture, but always something else.

Since then, twenty-five years ago, Rodríguez's work has been exhibited in fifty solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in cities such as Panama, Monterrey, Houston, Berlin, Santo Domingo, New York, Milan, Birmingham, La Jolla, Lima. , Oaxaca, Madrid, Paris and Atlanta; Among these exhibitions, the retrospective hosted by the MARCO museum in Monterrey stands out: Víctor Rodríguez / Painting 1997-2009. Likewise, Víctor Rodríguez has participated in the 7th Osaka Triennial (Mydone Museum), in the 3rd and 7th Salón Bancomer (Bancomer Cultural Foundation) and in the exhibitions Photorealism Revisited, organized by the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Flor y Canto, presented by the Salt Lake City Museum of Art, In the Nineties: A view of Contemporary Mexican Art, hosted by the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. and Trans-figuration, exhibited at the Palazzo Mediceo in Seravezza.

Víctor Rodríguez has received the Acquisition Prize of the XI Rufino Tamayo Biennial of Painting (2002), the Acquisition Prize of the I BID Contest for Young Painting (1997), the Acquisition Prize of the XIII National Meeting of Young Art (1996). and the Honorable Mention of the III Biennial of Monterrey (1997). His work is part of the collections of the Museum of Latin American Art in Los

Angeles (MOLAA), the San Diego Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mexican Foreign Ministry Museum, the Fundación Colección Jumex, the Instituto de Artes Flint, Aguascalientes Cultural Institute, British American Tobacco, FEMSA Collection, Narbona Collection, Inter-American Development Bank, Siqueiros Cultural Polyforum, Jauregia Collection and Franks-Suss Collection.