Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez

Email: jrod1227b@gmail.com

Website: www.josephlazarorodriguez.com

Instagram: @jrod1227

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Education

Pratt Institute Brooklyn NY 1988-1991 Painting 

University of Florida Gainesville, FL 1996 BSN

Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA 2019 MSN

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 2007 PhD

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA 2019 MFA



Residency

The Wassaic Project, 2019 November-December Resident, Wassaic, NY


Lectures, Panels, Awards and Honors

Philadelphia Wind Challenge 2024 awardee solo exhibition April 2024

Artist Lecture, Bucks County Community College, Pennsylvania 2022

Artist Lecture, PAFA, Philadelphia PA 2022

Visiting Critic , Film and Animation Department, PAFA, Philadelphia PA, Fall 2022

High School Portfolio Development Mentor, New York Free Arts Program, 2022 -2024

Spillway Collective, Collective Member, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 2020

Artists Lecture Panel: Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, 2019

Venture Fund Grant Recipient, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2019

Fellowship Trust Award,  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2019



Solo Exhibitions

The Currency of Promises Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 2024. Wind Challenge

Truth, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2022-2024

Tether Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts Museum, Historic Landmark Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022 first institutional solo

Hand and Foot, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 2022

Feet First , Spillway Collective, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, September - October 2019



Group Exhibitions

Aliento Corporal, Big Ramp Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2024

Rema Hort Foundation, Ruttkowski; 68 Gallery, New York, New York 2023

Me/Dee/Ashions, Hicks Gallery Bucks Community College, Pennsylvania 2022

Chelsea Group Show, Studio 9D, NY, NY Curated by NYC CritClub April 2022

Fellowship, Gross Mccleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 2021

Good Neighbors, Amos Eno Gallery, Bushwick, New York July 2021

If You Were Here You’d Be Home By Now, Wassaic Project 2021 Summer Exhibition, Wassaic New York Jun - Sept 2021

Flame Tree, Regular Normal Gallery, New York, New York Feb-Mar 2021

Won’t You Call Me By My Name, Wassaic Project, Wassaic New York Jan - Mar 2020

The Codex Project, Works on Paper Fine Arts gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jan - Feb 2020

Proximity, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, April 2019 curated by Didier William and Josephine Halvorson

Homage to the Kid in Me, Cherry Street Piers, Philadelphia Pennsylvania 2019, curated by Melanie Delach and Charles Mason III

Lifeblood, InLiquid, 1401 Germantown Space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2019

Facsimiles of Truth, Tuttleman Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2019

Songs of Color, FMC Art Initiative, FMC Tower at Circa Centre South, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2019, curated by Jiatong Tian 

Two Cents, Some Change, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, School of the Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2018, curated by Emmitt Smith, Sophie Brenneman

Studio 1, InLiquid, School of Rock Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2017




Press

WHYY National Liberty Museum Shines The Light On Truth

Iterant Magazine - Cover image and artist feature Issue 8

Artist Profile: Interview with Joe Brommel, Wassaic Project

The Artblog, Mythological, entrancing and immersive, Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez’s ‘Feet First’ at Spillway Collective

ArtCritical, David Cohen: https://list.artcritical.com/features/041819

PAFA Announces 2019 Fine Arts Venture Fund Recipients

ART GIVES FORMER NURSE A FRESH START