Sandy Rodriguez

Sandy Rodriguez (born 1975 in National City, California) is an American interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles.

Rodriguez earned her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the California Institute of Arts. A transitional moment for Rodriguez happened in 2014 on a visit to Oaxaca, a southern Mexican state, where she first procured cochineal, a red pigment produced in the pre-Columbian era. Prior to this, Rodriguez had painted exclusively in modern paint. The encounter with cochineal happened while she was painting fire paintings, and during protests began in Ayotzinapa in response to forty-three missing college students.

In April 2022, Rodriguez participated in a three-week residency at Cornell University as part of the interdisciplinary project "From Invasive Others toward Embracing Each Other: Migration, Dispossession, and Place-Based Knowledge in the Arts of the Americas." This project aimed to examine Latinx, Indigenous, and Chicanx histories through visual and performance arts.

During her residency, Rodriguez led workshops, focusing on themes of nature, activism, and traditional bioregional art practices. These workshops allowed participants to engage with indigenous pigments and their historical significance. the New Mexico State University, the Art, Design and Architecture Museum, the Denver Art Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the MOCA Busan Busan Bienniale,

Collections Her works are held in the permanent collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art,