Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya (Born 1989 in Parral, MX)
creates beings that are a fantastic becoming that center around anthologies and social issues concerning border culture, abjection, adaptation, and mestizaje aided by Speculative Fiction, 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. Guides that rest and shapeshift between different hybrid states of; the mundane, the terrible, and the sacred.
Solo Exhibitions
(Upcoming)
2024, MOCA Cleveland
2025-2026, ICA San Diego
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 Daughters, 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
2023
Perhaps the Truth, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa TX
La Mano Negra, Guadalajara90210, Guadalajara MX
La Casa Erosionada, Anahuacalli Museum, CDMX
We Are They, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles
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, invitation by Timo 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
