Coralina Rodriguez Meyer


ABOUT

Coralina Rodriguez Meyer was born in a car in an Everglades Florida swamp, raised queer between a rural Southern immigrant community and the Caribbean, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer is a Tinkuy mixed race, indigenous Andinx (Muisca Colombian /Inca Peruvian), Brooklyn based Quipucamayoc artist. Spanning 20 years and 30 countries, she works across disciplines including architecture, community organizing, moving images, documentary sculpture and urban design. They studied painting at MICA, anthropology at Hopkins, prior to receiving her architecture BFA at Parsons and MFA in Combined Media at Hunter College CUNY. She has worked as an architect and urban designer in NYC for 2 decades while a guest critic at Parsons, Pratt and FIU.


WORKS

Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
Chiminigagua Oya Ogbun Thinker, 2022
Intimate ephemera, environmental waste, domestic construction materials including: charcoal, coral, sea sponges, earrings, headphones, chancletas, human hair, fingernails, nylon hair weave, woven palm fronds, palm stamens, palm husks, umbrella, vintage liquor bottle, animal brush, wall insulation foam, building studs, floor resin, interior latex paint, landscape marking paint, spray paint, & nail salon paint
76 x 36 x 24 in.

Soft Furs, 2022
Silk, cut pieces of silver chain
19 x 21 in

Book of Hours, 2021
Wire and beads
11 x 21 in



EXHIBITIONS

 
 

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