Artist portrait by Elon Shoenholz
Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, CA) is a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher. Her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Amon Carter Museum, TX; The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Garden, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; the Mellon Art Collection, NYC, and others. She has been honored with multiple fellowships and awards, including the 2025-2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art from The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Garden, a 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship, the 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, the Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency 2020, and the Creative Capital Award 2020. Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spectrum News 1, and others.
Awards
Hannah & Russel Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art, The Huntington Library Art Museum & Botanical Garden (2025-2026)
US Latinx Art Fellowship (2024)
Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2023)
Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Hermitage Art Retreat, Florida (2023)
Migrations initiative, Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative and Global Cornell (2021)
Creative Capital Award (2021)
Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency (2021)
The Alma Ruiz Artist Fellowship, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA (2020)
City of Los Angeles COLA Master Artist Fellowship (2018-2019)
American for the Arts Public Art Network Year In Review 2017 award (2018)
Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Trailblazer Award (2017-18)
Artist-in-Residence for Los Angeles County Arts Commission (2016-2017)
Artist-in-Residence at Art+Practice in Leimert Park (2014-15)