Daniel Rios Rodriguez (b. 1978, Killeen, TX) is known for his small, highly detailed and thickly impastoed sculptural paintings that often feature frames made of rope or driftwood with found objects embedded in their surfaces. The works serve as memento mori, autobiographical scenes, and shrines to the his surrounding natural world. His intimately-scaled, unconventional paintings have been compared to the collages of Picasso, Paul Klee, and the early work of Jean Dubuffet. He has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art, and has had recent solo shows at Cooper Cole (Toronto, Canada), Nicelle Beauchene (New York, NY), Lulu (Mexico City, Mexico), Western Exhibitions (Chicago, IL), McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX), and has been included in recent group exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (Houston, TX), Michael Benevento (Los Angeles, CA), Kerlin Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), Barbara Seiler Galerie (Zurich, Switzerland), and Galeria Fortes D’aloia & Gabriel (Sao Paulo, Brasil). Rios Rodriguez received his MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art, is represented by Nicelle Beauchene in New York City, and lives and works in San Antonio, TX .
