Diego Rodriguez-Warner

Diego Rodriguez-Warner

Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s complex works blend printmaking, collage, and painting, featuring twisting figures and vibrant patterns, often incorporating trompe l’oeil effects. His motifs are freely appropriated from sources such as Japanese ukiyo-e prints, Henri Matisse’s cutouts, and other art-historical tropes. “My paintings are an attempt to reflect American culture: loud, boisterous, violent, a complicated overlapping cultural milieu, a beautiful, chaotically exuberant spectacle, a construct held together by tenuous belief. Through the abrupt rupturing of tired tropes, accepted narratives are subverted and expanded into multifaceted images that reject easy reduction.”

Diego Rodriguez-Warner (b. 1986, Managua, Nicaragua) lives and works in Denver, Colorado. He studied under Cuban artist and Minister for Fine Arts Lesbia Vent Dumois in Havana in 2008, received a BA from Hampshire College in 2009, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. He is the recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Award (2013) and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2020). Rodriguez-Warner has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Berlin, Dallas, Denver, Havana, Los Angeles, New York, Marfa, and Miami. His work has been featured at and acquired by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and is held in public and private collections worldwide.