About Isa Rodriguez

About the artist:

Isa Rodriguez is a Queer, Venezuelan American artist of Wayuu descent based in Oklahoma City. Their work presents creativity as a technology for liberation and creative practice as a tool for initiating meaningful social transformation.

Rodriguez is co-creator of Practice Practice, a community-based arts education project which examines the intersections of art, creativity, and everyday life. Practice Practice publishes accessible resources that help artists build balanced, sustainable practices, so that they can keep creating their art.

In their personal practice, Rodriguez examines migration, territory, and and creative lineage through photography, ceramics, and large-scale drawing. They recover and nurture aspects of their cultural heritage by recreating and reinterpret “pre-Columbian” gestures using contemporary materials and techniques.

Artist Bio:

Isa Rodriguez (b. 1989, Albuquerque) is a Queer, Venezuelan American artist of Wayuu descent, currently based in Oklahoma City.

They have exhibited locally and internationally, including at the Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX), the Mexican American Cultural Center (Austin, TX), the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea), and the Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center (Oklahoma City, OK). Past residencies include Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, MI) and SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico).

In 2021, Rodriguez co-founded Practice Practice with long-time collaborator Dylan Cale Jones. Practice Practice is a community-based arts education project. In 2023, they received a THRIVE! Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation and Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. In 2024, they published their first book, Practice Practice: How to Keep Creating and launched the Practice Practice Podcast.

Rodriguez teaches at Studio School at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, where they are artist in residence for the year of 2025.

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