PERSON: Shellyne Rodriguez

Visual Artist

Shellyne Rodriguez (born 1977) is an American visual artist, organizer, and professor.

Rodriguez earned a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and a MFA in Fine Art from Hunter College in 2014.

In 2014, Rodriguez attended the Shandaken Project Residency in the Catskills of New York. In 2015, she was artist-in-residence in the sculpture department at Hunter College. In 2017, Rodriguez collaborated with the Museum of Modern Art to create the Night Studio program, a free art class for New York City residents in the process of taking the TASC (Test Assessing Secondary Completion, formerly the GED). In 2018, Rodriguez was awarded the Percent for Art public sculpture commission to create a permanent public sculpture in The Bronx. Shellyne stated that the sculpture would serve as “a monument to the people of The Bronx.” In 2018, the Whitney Museum of American Art released a video by Rodriguez in which she discussed Ja’Tovia Gary’s film An Ecstatic Experience.

In 2019, Rodriguez became the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Latinx Project, an initiative based at NYU that is dedicated to Latinx studies. Rodriguez curated a show centered around ideas of displacement and how it affects the Latinx population in New York. The show included pieces by Rodriguez, Alicia Grullón, and anti-gentrification group Mi Casa No es Su Casa.

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