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Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya (Born 1989 in Parral, MX) creates sculptures that center around anthologies and social issues concerning border culture, abjection, and mestizaje. Aided by magical realism, nahualismo, Sci-Fi, and the labor of his family, his work hybridizes and creates parallels between land, the human, and the animal as a way to investigate the process in which violence eradicates, erases, and erodes communities of color.





SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2022
James Webb and The Thestral Born Without a Vertebrate, Sargent’s Daughters, NYC

2021
Ex Situ Canis Latrans, Murmurs LA

2020
Inside the Bowels of the Hoofed Beast, curated by Allegra LaViola, Sargent’s Duaghters, NYC

2019
So U Thot it Was A Chupacabra Eating Ur Goat…
Well Guess What Patricia, Its Actually Quetzalcoatl Come Down For Lunch
, Richmond, VA


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2022
Durian on the Skin, Ghebaly Gallery, LA

Outburst, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs

Group Show, General Expenses, CDMX


2021
were-:Nenetech Forms, Moca Tucson, curated by Laura Copelin, invitaiton by Timoh Fahler and rafa esparza, AZ

Her Kind, Sargent’s Daughters, curated by Allegra LaViola, NYC
100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, curated by Joseph Ian Henrikson, NYC

Senses of Brown, Armory Access (online exhibition) curated by Cesar Garcia-Alvarez

Land Chapters, Artist Field, curated by Estefania Puerta and Abbey Meaker, VT

Por Vida, Company Gallery, curated by Ken Castaneda, NYC  

2020
NADA MIAMI, online art fair, curated by Sargent's Daughters, NYC

New Waves, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA

2019
American Fine Arts, BBQLA, curated by Timoh Falher, CA, TX, OK, MO, MN

2018
Pasado Manana, Commonwealth and Council, curated by Rafa Esparza and Beatriz Cortes, Los Angeles, CA


PRESS


2022 - ARTMEMO

2022 - VAS
2021 - CARLA
2021 - artnet
2021 - Art Papers

2021 - Hyperallergic
2021 - Graphite XII

2020 - NY Times

2020 - artforum

2020 - artishockrevista
2019 - closedistance








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