MOAD Stories with Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Join artist Cristina Lei Rodriguez and MOAD team members for a new type of workshop. During MOAD Stories, participants will enjoy a special curated tour of the Freedom Tower, focused on personal reflection and storytelling. Following the tour, attendees will gather in the Knight Skylight Gallery for conversation and artmaking. All ages are welcome. Admission and workshop are free for all those who register.

Cristina Lei Rodriguez is an American visual artist known for an expansive practice that includes installation, photography, sculpture, public art, and more recently, painting. Rodriguez’s artworks are influenced by her identity and experience in the cultural landscape of the American tropics. Her perspective comes through in the landscapes she creates that position nature as a tool for deep reflection about accumulation, decay, transformation, and texture. The works are variously textured- like layers of ground sedimentation- created from materials that are plastic and industrial and, on the other end of the spectrum, precious and earthy.

Over the last 20 years, Rodriguez has exhibited her work internationally and nationally at museums, institutions and galleries such as the Serpentine Gallery (London), Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York), Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin (Paris, Miami), Team Gallery and Deitch Projects (both New York) and Blum and Poe (Los Angeles). Rodriguez’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), Perez Art Museum Miami and The Bass (Miami), among others. Rodriguez has been featured in selective survey shows such as “Nomen: American Women Artists 1945- Today” at Phillips Contemporary in 2019, “No Man’s Land: Women Artist from the Rubell Family Collection”, and “Uncertain States of America” which traveled between 2005- 2008 to museums around the world. Her work has been reviewed by Elle, Vogue, The New York Times, Financial Times, Wallpaper, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Art in America and Arte al Día International.

In Miami, her monumental public works can be seen throughout the city, notably at the Miami International Airport and the Westchester Art and Cultural Center.

Visitors to the Freedom Tower may park for free in the MDC garage at 500 NE Second Avenue, between NE Fifth and NE Sixth Streets.

The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at MDC may document the event, including its attendees. By entering the area, and/or participating in the event, you consent to the recording and its use in any form.

MOAD's programs are made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and Board of County Commissioners. They are sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture, and with generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Miami Herald is a media sponsor of MOAD's programming.