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MARK A. RODRIGUEZ
the work
contact
resume
pudding
soulfrawg puzzles

// Education


2006 - MFA         California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA      

2004 - BA            Beloit College, Beloit, WI


// Solo Presentations


2020

- Great Recession Drawings, Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA


2019

- Account, Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA


2016

- Earth Day AF, Park View, Los Angeles, CA

- Solo presentation with Park View, Paramount Ranch 3, Malibu, CA


2015

- Search. Connect. Move. Review, 5 Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA 

- Cup or Lovers, Park View, Los Angeles, CA


2014

- Exclusive Power Night, metro pcs, Los Angeles, CA

- ESQ., Gridspace, Crown Heights, NY


2013

- 18 Double Rolls, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


2012

- A.R.U.K.I.N.D., Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


2010  

- For Life, Galleria Studio Legale, Caserta, Italy


2009    

- Roman Title IV Plain Jane, Hope Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


// Selected Group Presentations


2019

- Condo, Mexico City, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico


2018

- The earth axis tilt shifts, Park View, Brussels, Belgium

- Monotasking, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA

- Condo, Southard Reid, London, England


2017

- Okey Dokey, DREI, Köln, Germany


2016

- A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

- Home, organized by Park View, Night Club, Chicago, IL


2015

- Villa Aurora Revisited, Balice Hertling, New York, NY

- Shampoo 2, Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

- Thank You P.F. Changs, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA


2014

- Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA

 

2013

- Nacked Gäubigen: Be Leaf Me, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany

- The Object Salon, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA


2012

- Dirty Funk, Acme, Los Angeles, CA

- Permanent Incandescence, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA


2011

- You Are Me, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA 

- Two x Two, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA

- The Fancy Finger, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


2010    

- No Barrier Fun, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY


2007    

- Psyche: R&R, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA


// Bibliography


2022

- Rodriguez, Mark A., After All Is Said and Done: Taping the Grateful Dead, 1965 - 1995. New York, Anthology Editions: 2022. Print.


2020

- Rodriguez, Mark A., Idea Art For Kids. Belgium, Zolo Press: 2020. Print.


2017

- Rodriguez, Mark A., et al., editors. If the Head Fits, Wear It. Los Angeles, CA, Honor Simone:

2017. Print. 


2016

- Krimko, Stuart, “Mark A. Rodriguez at Park View.” Carla, Issue 6. Fall 2016: pp. 46-47 and 

50-51. Print. 

- Rodriguez, Mark A., “Cupie.” Los Angeles Review of Books, Fall 2016: p. 117. Print.

- Varadi, Keith J., “Cronies in A California Dream: Paramount Ranch 3,” Spike Art Magazine, 

  February 2. Web.

- Piston, Job, “Barn Rising: Scenes from an Unusual Art Fair at Paramount Ranch,” W Magazine,

  February 1. Web.

- Goldstein, Andrew M., “The Last Rodeo? See the Best Art of the (Possibly Final) Paramount 

  Ranch, L.A’s Wild-Westest Art Fair,” Artspace, January 31. Web.

  

2015

- Diehl, Travis, “Critic’s Pick: Mark A. Rodriguez” Artforum.com, 21 April 2015

- Patrick, Steffen. “Del Vaz Projects and Park View” Flash Art International, May-Jun 2015, 

p. 51-52

2014

- Wagley, Catherine, “The L.A. Art We Want to See in 2015,” LA Weekly, 30 December 2014


2013

- The Third Rail, Issue 1. 2013, pg 65-66.

- Night Papers, Issue 4. 2013, pg. 5 and pg. 15. 


2012

- Rodriguez, Mark A., 27 New Poems. Los Angeles, 2012.

- Night Papers, Issue 3. 2012, pg. 3 and pg. 21.

- Night Papers, Issue 1. 2012, pg. 4 and pg. 6. 


2011

- Rodriguez, Mark A. “The Age of Prohibition in the Perfect World.” ArtSlant. 27 Sept. 2011. Web. 

- Rodriguez, Mark A. “Fur Rat.” ArtSlant, 9 Aug. 2011. Web. 


2010

- Rodriguez, Mark A. “Return to the Real.” Others Firm. Nov. 2010. Web.


2009

- Haeg, Fritz, The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive. New York: Evil Twins Publications, 2009.                        

- Rodriguez, Mark A. “I We We I.” Free Soil Reader. 2009. 133-136.


2008

- Rodriguez, Mark A. “Wasn’t There a Party at Frank Zappa’s Old House Last Night?”

The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Issue 6, Oct (2008): 216-221.

- “Analog Counterrevolution,” Project Series 35: Evan Holloway,     

Pomona College Museum of Art, March. 2008.


2006

- Helfand, Glen, “Let’s Get Lost.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dec. 21-Dec. 27. 2006.


//Videography


2017

- Long Strange Trip. Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, Amazon Studios, 26 May. 2017.


2016

- “I am My Music.” Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music. PBS. 23 November. 2016. Television. 


// Awards


2006

- Barclay Simpson Award


2004

- Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Award

- Erin Kluk Memorial Award