Nicolas Rodriguez is an artist born in Mendoza and raised in the Province of Buenos Aires. His work explores themes related to origin, time, and materiality, combining local historical, personal, and family imaginaries. He focuses on manual labor as both a method of exploration and a moment of truth. His practice investigates everyday activities, art history, and Latin American local culture as an infinite source of symbolic tension, proposing new interpretations of already existing relationships on both the symbolic and material plane of things. He works with installation, objects, painting, performance, video, ceramics, and research.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from UNA (2007–2015), participated in the Artists Program at Torcuato Di Tella University (2021–2022), AB-ele (2020–2022), and Proyecto PAC (2018). He has taken part in mentorships with Ernesto Ballesteros, Mónica Girón, Patricio Larrambebere, Sofía Dourron, María Carolina Baulo, and Alicia Candiani. His work is held in both public and private collections. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions, as well as in several art prizes, including the 1st Prize in Ceramics at the National Salon of Visual Arts, the Klemm Prize, UADE National Competition, and the Itaú Prize.

In 2023, he was awarded the Constelaciones Grant from Fundación Williams and completed the URRA and Raíces residencies. In 2024, he joined the HITO Program in Buenos Aires. In 2025, he will be a Guest Professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Germany, and a Guest Artist in the SOMA Residency Program in Mexico City.

He is currently featured in the group exhibition “Corteza Interna” at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, and in the solo show “Fragmentos e historias” at the Enrique Larreta Museum of Spanish Art, Buenos Aires. He is also participating in Siestario at the Argentine Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and in BIENALSUR 2025.

He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

My work delves into the complex terrain of origin, time, and materiality, merging historical, local, personal, and familial imaginaries. My practice is nourished by the history of art and Latin American culture, reactivating everyday practices and popular symbols in a process that seeks to reconfigure the symbolic and material relationships that define our reality.

I use action, installation, object, painting, video, ceramics, and research as tools to explore and express my interest in the most fundamental aspects of life: touch, closeness, and memory. These elements become the thread running through my creative process, where time, matter, and space not only structure the work but also act as agents that give rise to existence itself. In each piece, I aim to draw closer to the work, to become one with it, engaging deeply with the processes and meanings it generates.

Materiality and manual labor occupy a central role in my practice, as I see this act, in itself, as a moment of “truth”—a space of connection between the tangible and the intangible, between the self and the created. The beginning of an idea is also the possibility of opening a dialogue with destiny, with the tensions between past and present, between personal and collective narratives, and between the historical and the contemporary.

I conceive of art as a space of tension, where objects, actions, and materials are in constant transformation, inviting the viewer to reconsider what is known and to question how we construct our identity, our history, and our relationships with the world around us.

The question of destiny is often present, though I can rarely answer it. Instead, I create an open space—a point of contact where reflections on being, doing, and existing can continue to unfold, spilling beyond the boundaries between art, life, and memory.

FORMAL EDUCATION 

2007- 2015 – Bachelor in Arts /Licenciatura en Artes Visuales, Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

ART RESIDENCY 

2025 – SOMA, Invited Artist, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 – URRA, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2023 – Raíces, Catamarca, Argentina
2023 – Zona Imaginaria, Invited Artist, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

ARTIST PROGRAM

2021/2022 – Artists Program Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2018 – PAC Project, Gachi Prieto, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 

ARTWORK CRITIQUE SESSIONS/ SEMINARS 

2024 – Artwork critique session with curator María Carolina Baulo, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023 – Artwork critique session with artist Ernesto Ballesteros, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – AB-ELEx Program, artwork critique sessions with Carla Barbero and Javier Villa, Curators of MAMBA / Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 – Critique session with artist Monica Giron, Zona Imaginaria, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 – Artwork critique session with curator Sofía Dourron, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2020 – AB-ELE Program, artwork critique sessions with Carla Barbero and Javier Villa, Curators of MAMBA / Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2020 – Artwork critique session with Alicia Candiani, Proyecto´Ace, City of Buenos Aires,Argentina
2016 – Artwork critique session with Artist Patricio Larrambebere, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

GRANTS

2024 – Programa HITO, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023 – Constelaciones, Red Quincho, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – Together Apart #7 Cohabiting Borders, Proyecto ACE, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

PRIZES 

2023 – 18° UADE Award, Selection, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023 – 111° Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Video, Centro Cultural Kirchner, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 – XXV Premio Klemm, Fundaciòn Klemm, Selection, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2019 – 14° UADE Award, Selection, Instalation, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2019 – 10° Premio Itaú de Artes Visuales, 1st Honorable Mention, Itaú Foundation, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, City of Buenos Aires Argentina
2018 – 107° Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales SNAV, 1st Prize Ceramic, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2025 – Fragmentos e historias, Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta, Curated by Silvina Amighini, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – Y los ritos son en el tiempo lo que la morada es en el espacio, Museo Larreta, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 – Gardens of Buenos Aires / Jardines de Buenos Aires, El Patio nº2, Galería Gachi Prieto, Curator Andrés Waissman, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2018 – The beautiful contours / Los preciosos contornos, Galería Un lugar en el mundo, Curator Nadia Martin, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Corteza Interna, Duo show together with Victoria Pastrana, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Curaduría Javier Villa, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024 – Circuito integrado, Museo de la Carcova, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023 – PISO 11, Curator Pancho Casas, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – ARTEBA, Satélite Galería, Curator Emilia Casiva, Centro Costa Salguero, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – Lo que importa es la piel, Praxis Gallery, Curator Vic Tolomei, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – Luz sobre los Meridianos / Light on the meridians, Final Exhibition Artists Program Universidad Torcuato Di Tella,
City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2021 – Origin Code, 24 artists, 13 cities, one thing. Curator Javier Soria Vazquez, UTDT, Salta, Argentina
2020 – Semillero 2020, Proyecto’Ace, Curator Andrés Knob, Virtual Exhibition 
2019 – Awarded 107th National Visual Arts Hall / Premiados 107° Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales, Museo Emilio Caraffa, Curator Carina Cagnolo, Córdoba, Argentina 
2019 – Song to work / Canto al Trabajo, Centro Creativo El Obrador, Curator Rodrigo Alonso, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2018 – The pleasure of exile / El placer del exilio, Gallery Gachi Prieto, Curators Chili Amighini, Catalina Swieykowski and Damián D’Amico, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 
2018 – Ecocides / Ecocidas, Museo del Hambre, with Eduardo Molinari, Laura Luciani and Santiago Fredes, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina 

PARTICIPATIONS

2023 – Gestos que resignifican, Conversation with Curator Johanna Caplliure, Conjuring Worlds Series, Sívori Museum, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – Night of the Museums, Larreta Museum, Curated by Vic Tolomei, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – ARTEBA, Satellite Gallery, Curated by Emilia Casiva, Costa Salguero Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina

PROJECTS/ RESEARCH 

2024 – Nadando se llega al bosque, Fundación Por el Mar, Parque Nacional Monte León, Santa Cruz, Argentina
2019 – Agua Dulce, Audiovisual and research project in collaboration with IN-SITU, scientific research on cancer in vulnerable areas of the Province of Entre Rios in collaboration with CONICET ( National Council for Scientific and Technical Research), Instituto Gino Germani, UBA Universidad de Buenos Aires Department of Social, UNER Universidad de Entre Rios Department of Engineering and the National Cancer Institute, Entre Ríos, Argentina

PUBLICATIONS

2023 – ´Good Traditions´ Cover Image of: Cancer and the Politics of Care, Inequalities and interventions in global perspective, Edited by Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson and Belinda Spagnoletti, UCL Press, University College London, London, 2023
2022 – By Javier Soria Vazquez
2021 – IN SITU, El cáncer como injusticia social, Edited by Natalia Luxardo and Fernando Sassetti, ´Agua Dulce: prácticas artísticas contemporáneas en territorio´, Chapter 11, pg.939-952, Editorial Biblos, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2021Mi trabajo se adentra en los terrenos complejos del origen, el tiempo y la materialidad, fusionando imaginarios históricos, locales, personales y familiares. Mi obra se nutre de la historia del arte y de la cultura latinoamericana, reactivando prácticas cotidianas y símbolos populares en un proceso que busca reconfigurar las relaciones simbólicas y materiales que definen nuestra realidad.