Arturo Rodríguez (artist)

Arturo Rodríguez (born 1956) is a Cuban-born American visual artist.^[1] He is a painter, but also works in other mediums including NFTs.^[2][3] He is best known for his psychologically charged, figurative paintings.^[4] He lives in Miami, Florida.^[5][6]

Arturo Rodríguez
Born	(1956-02-06) February 6, 1956 (age 68) Ranchuelo, Villa Clara Province, Cuba
Other names	Arturo Rodriguez, Hierommus Fromm
Alma mater	Miami Dade Community College
Occupation	Visual artist
Known for	Painting
Spouse	Demi

Biography

Arturo Rodríguez was born on February 6, 1956, in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara Province, Cuba.^[7][8][3][9] In either 1971 or 1973, when he was a teenager his family moved from Cuba to Asturias and Madrid in Spain; followed by a move in 1973 or 1976 to Miami, where they settled.^{[5][9][10][6]} He attended Miami Dade Community College (now Miami Dade College).^[11] In his early career he used the pseudonym Hierommus Fromm to illustrate children's books.^[12]

He met his future wife at an art opening at Meeting Point Gallery in Miami in 1978, artist Demi, whom he married in 1984.^[13][11][12] His artwork is often influenced by his relationship with his wife.^[14][11] He is considered a self-taught painter.^[3]

His artwork is in public museum and art collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Israel Museum, Norton Museum of Art, Cintas Foundation, Bass Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Polk Museum of Art, Center for the Arts in Vero Beach, Tampa Museum of Art, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Lowe Art Museum, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Frost Art Museum, Museum of Latin American Art, and the Miami-Dade Public Library System.^[5][9]

See also

• Aaron Gilbert
• List of Cuban artists

References

1. "Arturo Rodriguez". Latin American Art. Vol. 6, no. 1. Latin American Art Magazine, Incorporated. 1994. p. 50.
2. Wooldridge, Jane (May 5, 2022). "How Cuban artist Arturo Rodriguez got into creating NFTs". Miami Herald.
3. Kirwin, Liza (2010-03-15). Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. Archives of American Art. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-888-7.
4. Borland, Isabel Alvarez; Bosch, Lynette M. F. (2009-01-26). Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities. State University of New York Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7914-9372-4.
5. "Arturo Rodríguez: Terra Incognita". Art Miami Magazine. 2022-02-06. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
6. Sicre, José Gómez (1987). Art of Cuba in Exile. Editora Munder. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-89729-467-6.
7. Bosch, Lynette M. F. (2004). Cuban-American Art in Miami: Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque. Lund Humphries. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-85331-907-8.
8. Ramos, E. Carmen; Museum, Smithsonian American Art (2014). Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art. Smithsonian American Art Museum. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-907804-44-1.
9. Gracia, Jorge J. E.; Bosch, Lynette M. F.; Borland, Isabel Alvarez (2009-01-08). Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers. State University of New York Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-7914-7891-2.
10. Cuba-USA: The First Generation : Exhibition Tour 1991-1992. Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center. 1991. p. 38.
11. "A Finding Aid to the Demi and Arturo Rodríguez papers, circa 1957-2016" (PDF). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
12. Kohen, Helen L. (1991-01-19). "Art Imitates Love". The Miami Herald. p. 55. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
13. Veciana-Suarez, Ana (2001-02-27). "Love & art". The Miami Herald. p. 208. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
14. "Demi y Arturo Rodríguez, unidos en el arte y el amor". El Nuevo Herald (in Spanish). 1994-09-04. p. 62. Retrieved 2022-12-31.

External links

• Demi and Arturo Rodríguez papers, circa 1957-2016, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Oral history interview with Arturo Rodríguez, 2020 August 26, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution