
CARLOS ROLÓN/DZINE
ARTWORK

Barrio Plena (El Salto), 2014 30 x 30 x 2.5 inches Smoke mirror, resin and crystalline on wood panel

Barrio Plena (El Salto), 2014 30 x 30 x 2.5 inches Smoke mirror, resin and crystalline on wood panel
Barrio Plena (El Salto), 2014
30 x 30 x 2.5 inches
Smoke mirror, resin and crystalline on wood panel

Barrio Plena (La Principal), 2014 60 x 60 x 3 inches Black mirror, resin, and crystalline on aluminum and wood panel

Barrio Plena (La Principal), 2014 60 x 60 x 3 inches Black mirror, resin, and crystalline on aluminum and wood panel
Barrio Plena (La Principal)
60 x 60 x 3 inchesBlack mirror, resin, and crystalline on aluminum and wood panel

Santurce (Diamond), 2014 60 x 60 x 3 inches Clear mirror, resin, crystalline, and quartz crystals on aluminum and wood panel

Santurce (Diamond), 2014 60 x 60 x 3 inches Clear mirror, resin, crystalline, and quartz crystals on aluminum and wood panel
Santurce (Diamond), 2014
60 x 60 x 3 inches
Clear mirror, resin, crystalline, and quartz crystals on aluminum and wood panel
ARTIST BIO

RESOURCES
CARLOS ROLÓN/DZINE
EDUCATION
1989
Briefly studied at Columbia College, Chicago
2011
Kraus Visiting Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2014
New Work, Walter Otero Contemporary, San Juan
Trophy Room, COLLABORATIONS, Art Cologne Invitational, Salon 94 and Galerie Henrik Springmann, Cologne, Germany
Thinking of Forever, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul
Dzine: Born Carlos Rolón, 1970, Paul Kasmin Gallery and Salon 94, New York
2013
Victory, Public Functionary, MinneapolisVictory, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas
2012
Imperial Nail Salon, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin
Phenomenon, Deptford X, London (Curated by Hew Locke and Indra Khanna)
La Pelanda – Centro Di Produzione Culturale, Installation and performance, Rome
2011
Imperial Nail Salon, Salon 94, New York
Get Nailed at the New Museum, performance, installation, New Museum, New York
Zeniths and Daytons, Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg
2010
Voodoo, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York
Voodoo, Krinzinger Projekte, ViennaPosse, Flint Institute of Arts (fleckenstein video gallery), Michigan
2009
Bass Museum of Art, MiamiLove & Loyalty, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2008
The Beautiful Struggle, Deitch Projects, New York
Emily Murphy Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
2007
Contemporary Arts Society, RomeMuseum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
2006
Stealing Dreams, SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary, Tokyo
Somewhere over the Rainbow, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan (catalogue.)
Just Kidding, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
2005
Punk Funk, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (catalogue)
2004
Staring at the Sun, moniquemeloche, Chicago
Gangster Boogie, Palais de Tokyo, ParisIllinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago (Traveled to University of Missouri – Gallery 210, St. Louis & Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois )
Equal Gallery, Osaka, Japan (catalogue.)
Beautiful Things, SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary, Tokyo
Project Invitational, ARCO ‘04-International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
2003
Alley Oop, Institute of Visual Art Center (inova), MilwaukeeTokyo Boogie, University of Alabama Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham Alabama
2002
Beat Junkie, Chop Shop, moniquemeloche gallery, ChicagoSampler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2014
Booster – Art Sound Machine, MARTA Herford, Herford, Germany
Tradiciones, Rockford Art Museum, Illinois
2013
The concept of Baroque in Contemporary Art, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin (curated by Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt)
In God We Trust, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Vial, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2012
IN/SITU, EXPO CHICAGO, ChicagoThe Haberdashery, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Interconnections, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
2011
Experience Pommery #9 (La Fabrique sonore), curated by Claire Staebler and Charles Carcopino, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Write Now: Artists and Letterforms, Chicago Cultural Center
Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and POST, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
Geared: The Culture of Bicycles, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho
VOCES Y VISIONES: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York
2010
Legal Tender, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles
Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, curated by Takashi Azumaya, Busan
Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
(I Can) Feel the Pulse, MAMA, Rotterdam
2009
Stages, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris(Traveled to Deitch Projects, New York, and O.H.W.O.W, Miami)
2008
Not So Minimal, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium
2007
Barrio Dreams, Deitch Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Miami, FL
A Poem about an Inland Sea, Ukrainian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale
Carribean Encounters, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Simply Beautiful, LABoral, Gijon, SpainGenerations U(s)A, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
Public Image, Painting the City, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands
2006
Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
New Territories: On Youth Culture, Carla Arocha and Dzine, ARCO ’06, Madrid, Spain
Observatori, Museo de la Ciencias Principe Felipe, Valencia
2005
Lost in Music, Nerman Museum of Art/JCCC, Overland Park, Kansas
2004
None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists, Real Art Ways, Hartford (traveled to Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan)
Stop & Stor: new painters, LUXE Gallery, New York
2003
Painting by Design, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit
Sk8 on the Wall, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao Centre For Contemporary Art, Netherlands Antilles
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
City of Chicago Sister Cities Program, The National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya
GRANTS/AWARDS
Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award
National Endowment for the Arts
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Brooklyn Museum, NY
City of Chicago Public Art Collection, Illinois
Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium
Museo del Barrio, New York
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Nerman Museum of Art, Kansas City
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
Yuz Art Foundation, Shanghai