RODOLFO ROJAS ROCHA

Contact: pintor@rojasrocha.com

Master of Art(2008) in Art Theory and Criticism from University of Costa Rica, BFA in Advertising Design from Veritas University. Also, BFA (1997) and License (1999) in Drawing and Painting from the University of Costa Rica. Researcher, fine artist and designer for fourteen years, and teach: Painting, principles of Design, Drawing, Lettering, Presentation Techniques, History of Design, visual culture at Veritas University and Fine Art School of the University of Costa Rica, where he has worked for 9 years until now. Rojas-Rocha has 20 solo shows an more than 90 national and international exhibitions (New York, Mississippi, Cartagena, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador among other countries), was a member of Central American Artist Association (FECAP), and serves on the Ministry of Education and PROCESOS as artistic education consultant. As Visual Studies researcher has given lectures at The Art Museum MARTE (El Salvador), ADAPES (El Salvador Fine Artists Association),Latinoamerican Regional congress of Artistic Education (Medellin, Colombia), II Simposium Visual Studies (Universidad Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico), Ganexa University, Panama and University of Panama. Member of Wardnasse Gallery, New York. First Place in “University Environment Contest”UCR (1994), Inter-university Biennale Contest and others recognitions, visiting artist at The University of Mississippi (EU). Recent researching: The Conceptual Map as artistic investigation and visual studies.

His fine art works consist of a wide variety of painting techniques, drawing, oil, acrylic, mixed media, site specific drawing. His work is based on non-linear drawing pattern, microscopic a macroscopic world based on human anatomy, and ideological aspects of the costarrican mythological and hybridized culture. It is an approach to the contemporary artistic image related with nature and rhizomatous links.