Shellyne Rodriguez
b. 1977
Lives and works in Bronx, NY
Education
2014
MFA Studio Art, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011
BFA Visual & Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2021
Shellyne Rodriguez: 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s: The Insistence of Life on the Periphery of Empire, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (online)
2016
Fragmentacion, Remix y Reinvento, curated by Maria A. Garcia, Casa Warmi, Quito, Ecuador
Select Group Exhibitions
2026
2021 - 2025 BRIO Retrospective, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2025
Antes de la colonización [Before Colonization], Casa Afro Piñones, Puerto Rico
What’s Left in the Remaking, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
El Vaivén: 21st Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Bold Women, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2024
Re/Presenting: Art Beyond the Color Line, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
In Our Corner: Exchanges in the Asian American Art Movements and Beyond, Think!Chinatown, 80WSE, New York, NY
Airhead, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Making Room: Museum as Space for Self-Expression, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2023
Puerto Rico Negrx, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Contra todo autoridad...excepto mi mamá, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Kept Alive Within Us, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Drawing as Practice, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Ceramics Now, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
Collector’s Edition, Virginia MoCA, Virginia Beach, VA
This is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
2022
Rostro, curated by Ever Velasquez, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Shellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus: Siempre En La Calle, Calderón, New York, NY
2019
What is Here is Open, Selections from the Trash Collection, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
Pasado y Presente: Art after the Young Lords 1969-2019, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity, curated by Shellyne Rodriguez, The Latinx Project, New York University, New York, NY
2018
Original Language, curated by Natasha Marie Llorens, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
Bronx Now!, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
FOUR, We Buy Gold, Sargent’s Daughter, New York NY
HER ART WILL BE CANNIBAL, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Living Proof, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Citicien, Defend Puerto Rico, New York, NY
BLACK FOLK presents: Reclaimed Rage; Resistance, BronxArtSpace, New York, NY
2016
Movement Is Rising: Demystify, Destroy, Rebuild!, The Museum of Impact, Newark, NJ
We Still Imagine, Make and Read Books, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY
Power to the People, Art Connects, New York, Queens, NY
Window Project 4: Rest in Power, #BlackBrownIndigenousSolidarity, Queens Museum (offsite at Immigrant Movement International Corona), Queens, NY
Wild Seeds, Temporary Agency, Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
After the Firmaments Crash Down... What?, Thomas Hunter Space, Hunter College, New York, NY
2015
Power, Protest, and Resistance: The Art of Revolution, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
iPRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY
Sublime of the Mundane, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
Clorox/Envy, Stillhouse Group, Brooklyn, NY
When You Cut Into The Present, The Future Leaks Out, No Longer Empty, Bronx, NY
New Work New York MFA Biennial, Brooklyn, NY
Immediate Female, Judith Charles Gallery, NY
Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Public Works
2025
Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx, Bronx, NY
Residencies and Awards
2019
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellow
Inaugural Artist in Residence, Latinx Project, New York University, New York, NY
Public Sculpture Percent for Art Commission, Bronx, NY
2017
Finalist for the June Jordan Fellowship at Columbia University, New York, NY
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
2016
Guest artist, IMI Corona, Queens Museum, New York, NY
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
2015
Artist-in-Residence, Sculpture Department, Hunter College, New York, NY
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
2014
Shandaken Project Residency, Catskills, NY
Public Collections
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bibliography
2025
Iacovino, Teréz and José López Serra, eds. 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora. Katherine E. Nash Gallery at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 204-205.
Ortiz, María Elena. Puerto Rico Negrx. Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, pp. 126-127.
2021
Emily Harvey Foundation, Petrossiants, A., and Rosales, J. Diversity of Aesthetics. New York, NY.
2013
Rodriguez, Shellyne. “Cake Vol. 1,” Printed Matter, 2013.
Rodriguez, Shellyne. “Cake Vol. 2,” Printed Matter, 2013.
