Rubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya

Rubén Ulises Rodríguez Montoya (born 1989 in Parral. Chihuahua) is an artist based in Mexico City. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020. He creates sculptures that are fantastic beings centered around self-made mythologies and social issues concerning border culture, abjection, adaptation, and mestizaje. Rodríguez Montoya's practice is influenced by Speculative Fiction, Nahualismo, Sci-Fi, and the labor of his family. His work hybridizes and creates parallels between land, human, and animal as a way to investigate the process in which violence eradicates, erases, and erodes communities of color.