Guillermo Rodriguez's project El Contrato Natural envisions an exhibition as an ecosystem, contrasting the setting of the botanical gardens at the University of Puerto Rico with artworks that operate in symbiosis with the natural environment that hosts them.
Guillermo Rodríguez studied fine arts and sculpture at the University of Puerto Rico. He completed a Bachelor of Art (Honors) in Art Practice at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2010 and attended a Master's program in Curating Visual Arts at Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. He has participated in the Rauschemberg Residency, Banff Centre Visual Arts Residency, The Davidoff Arts Initiative Residency, a collaboration between Atelier Mondial and the FHNW, Basel, and exhibited in the 11th Havana Biennial: Práctica Artísticas e Imaginarios Sociales, Artesur: Collective Fictions at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and Final del Juego, Fundación Proa (Buenos Aires). As part of his fellowship with Beta-Local in 2016, he founded and directed the transitory exhibition platform La Estación Espacial. Rodríguez has recently curated Herbaria at Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in la Habana, Balancing a Blade on Diamond Grass (Balancing a Diamond on a Blade of Grass) and ‘CROMÁNTICA’ by Chaveli Sifre at El Lobi, in San Juan and KIOSK at Artists Alliance’s Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space in New York.
