Project Description

Carissa Rodriguez

FSC-Harvard Fellow 2019-20, 2020-21

Carissa Rodriguez lives and works in New York City and has exhibited internationally since the late 1990s. Encompassing video, sculpture, photography and installation, her work reflects on the material and social conditions through which art is produced, reproduced and received. Select solo exhibitions include The Art Institute of Chicago (2020); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2018); SculptureCenter, New York (2018); Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2016); Front Desk Apparatus, New York (2013) and Karma International, Zurich (2012). Her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial of 2014 and 2019 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Rodriguez was a core member of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York from 2004 to 2015.

FSC Works

The Maid (II)

Carissa Rodriguez

The Maid (II) is an experimental short video work that traces a selection of American artist Sherrie Levine’s Newborn sculptures in various art collections, both private and institutional.