Diego Rodriguez-Warner

Diego Rodriguez-Warner incorporates techniques of printmaking, collage and painting into compositions of overlapping figurative forms. highly layered and utilize a variety of visual elements and styles. His primary surface of choice is typically plywood panels that he carves and stains, layering painted figures on top of his surfaces adding texture and depth to the final pieces. The artist’s technique borrows from woodblock printing. His painterly motifs are freely appropriated from sources such as Japanese ukiyo-e prints, Henri Matisse’s cutouts, and other art-historical tropes.

Diego Rodriguez-Warner, b. 1986 in Managua, Nicaragua, lives and works in Denver, CO. In 2008, he studied under the Cuban Minister for Fine Arts, Lesbia Vent Dumois, in Havana, and in 2009 he earned a BA from Hampshire College, followed by an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. Additionally, he is a recipient of both Toby Devan Lewis (2013) and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2020). Rodriguez-Warner has exhibited internationally and nationally in Berlin, Denver, Havana, Los Angeles, New York City, Marfa, and Miami among others. His work was featured at, and acquired by, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. He is represented in public and private collections around the world and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major museums, including the Washington Pavilion, South Dakota; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Museo De Las Americas, Denver; and the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs.