b. 1984, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City
Human artist creating sentient sculptures through the use of artificial intelligence, classic sculpture, and simulations to explore and understand the human species, our minds, inventions, and future. With a background as a serial entrepreneur, Rodrigo has cultivated a wide perspective on the many facets of human invention, societal structures, and conditions that shape today’s world.
Exhibitions
SENTIENT SCULPTURES, solo exhibition Jun-Sep 2024. Laboratorio Arte Alameda, México.PATIO by ZⓈONAMACO, group exhibition, 2024. San José del Cabo, BC, México.CUERPOS SENSIBLES, solo exhibition, 2024. Casa Rafael Galván, UAM, México.CLAVO SEIS, “Seres”, solo exhibition, 2024. México.QiPO ART 2024, “DDoS”, group exhibition, 2024. México.MUTEK Edition 19, group exhibition, 2023. México.BLAST for an aesthetic of violence, group exhibition, 2021. Palazzo Poste Verona, Italia.M68: Ciudadanías en movimiento, group exhibition, 2018. CCUT, UNAM, Mexico.
Awards
The Lumen Prize 2023, longlistBBA Artist Prize 2024, Artist of the week
Professional Experience
Co-founded FUTURESELF_, an artist-run space focused on exhibiting and developing art at the blurred lines between science fiction, artificial intelligence and machines, 2024Founded and directed HOPPIA, a metaverse designed for museums, universities and art institutions, 2020-2022Co-founded USO, a marketplace for Latin American artists, 2020-2021Co-founded AURA, an art and culture consulting agency working alongside art historians and curators, 2016-2021Founded and directed ALUCINA, a pioneering technology and creative studio in Latin America, 2008-2019
Education
BS in Engineering Cybernetics by ULSA in 2007Soma Summer 2024: Entanglements. Artist Residency, 2024Acceleration Bootcamp: Lean Startup, in TechBA Seattle, 2012Seminar: “Arte-Máquinas-Medios”, with Karla Jasso. 2017. Campus Expandido, MUAC, UNAMSeminar: “Estéticas Materiales, la vuelta al objeto”, with Helena Chávez Mac Gregor. 2018. Campus Expandido, MUAC, UNAMWorkshop: “Hacking the debt-to-dream ratio”, with Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven, 2019, IIE, UNAMWorkshop: ‘Materializing Contemporary Art with Digital Fabrication”, 2019, FabLabSeminar: “Conceptual Art Facing the Law”, with Lauren van Haaften-Schinck, 2019, MUAC, UNAMAcceleration Course: Y Combinator Startup School, 2021Acceleration Program: Platzi Startups, 2021
