GUEGUENSE DANCING NEAR MOMOTOMBO oil-on-canvas 36” x 48,” for a proposed mosaic-mural 10’ x 12,’ 1995
ABOUT THE PAINTER
José Rodeiro is a Visual Artist's Fellow in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts; and a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Painting, which he completed at the University of Central America (UCA), Managua, Nicaragua), as well as a recipient of a Cintas Fellowship in painting. He received his M.F.A from Pratt Institute, NY and his Ph.D. from Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Tampa. He is a graduate of Jesuit High School, Tampa, Florida. He has lived and worked in Spain, Central America, and Latin America.
He has received major public art (mural) commissions from Tampa Arts Council, Tampa, FL, and Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD. His exhibitions include such venues as the Miami-Dade Museum of Art & Design, Miami, Florida; The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey; Union City Museum, Union City, NJ; The Museum of Fine Arts, Washington County, Hagerstown, Maryland; Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ; Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkelaba Gallery (the New York State Arts Council Gallery in Manhattan) NYC, NY; Florida International University’s Frost Museum (Miami, FL), The Korea Gallery (NYC, NY), Newark Museum; NJPAC; Galleries of Contemporary Art (GoCA), University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Rutgers University’s UMDNJ’s Robert Wood Johnson Gallery; Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California; Perth Amboy Gallery (Center for the Arts); El Museo de la Historia de Ponce (The Ponce Museum of History (“MoHP”), Ponce, Puerto Rico; PCCC Broadway/LRC Gallery (Paterson, NJ), Gallery Korea, NYC, NY; Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery (College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ), and other venues. In October 2009, Rodeiro lectured on his painting “9/11” at The Tribute WTC Visitor Center (at Ground Zero, New York City, NY).
Dr. José Rodeiro is a former-Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at New Jersey City University (Jersey City, New Jersey). And, has lectured as a Visiting Professor, Department of Visual Poetics, UNESP (Sao Paulo University, Bauru), Brazil, fall 2011, and as a Visiting Professor, Art Department, UNESP (Sao Paulo University), Sao Paulo, Brazil, fall 2011. And, he worked in Barcelona, Spain, from 1985-1986, during his Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, [(Washington, DC)].
He has received major public art (mural) commissions from Tampa Arts Council, Tampa, FL, and Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD. His exhibitions include such venues as the Miami-Dade Museum of Art & Design, Miami, Florida; The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey; Union City Museum, Union City, NJ; The Museum of Fine Arts, Washington County, Hagerstown, Maryland; Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ; Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkelaba Gallery (the New York State Arts Council Gallery in Manhattan) NYC, NY; Florida International University’s Frost Museum (Miami, FL), The Korea Gallery (NYC, NY), Newark Museum; NJPAC; Galleries of Contemporary Art (GoCA), University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Rutgers University’s UMDNJ’s Robert Wood Johnson Gallery; Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California; Perth Amboy Gallery (Center for the Arts); El Museo de la Historia de Ponce (The Ponce Museum of History (“MoHP”), Ponce, Puerto Rico; PCCC Broadway/LRC Gallery (Paterson, NJ), Gallery Korea, NYC, NY; Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery (College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ), and other venues. In October 2009, Rodeiro lectured on his painting “9/11” at The Tribute WTC Visitor Center (at Ground Zero, New York City, NY).
Dr. José Rodeiro is a former-Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at New Jersey City University (Jersey City, New Jersey). And, has lectured as a Visiting Professor, Department of Visual Poetics, UNESP (Sao Paulo University, Bauru), Brazil, fall 2011, and as a Visiting Professor, Art Department, UNESP (Sao Paulo University), Sao Paulo, Brazil, fall 2011. And, he worked in Barcelona, Spain, from 1985-1986, during his Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, [(Washington, DC)].