Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez

Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez  is a Cuban-American, multidisciplinary artist. He uses his personal experiences and broad range of styles and materials to create paintings, drawings, sculptures, and large scale multi-channel video installations. He studied at Pratt Institute and received an MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts in 2019. Rodriguez exhibited work at The National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia and recently had his first museum solo exhibition in 2022 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He has also presented works at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC, Regular Normal Gallery, NYC, Gross McCleaf Gallery, GrizzlyGrizzly and Works on Paper Fine Arts Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is privately collected. Rodriguez received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Nursing, and worked as a critical care nurse in large urban hospitals focusing on cardiothoracic and heart transplant surgical populations in tandem with his studio practice before retiring in 2017.  He resides and works out of his studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.