Lisyanet Rodriguez

Born in Cuba

BIO

Born in Cuba, Lisyanet Rodriguez is a visual artist whose practice explores the tension between beauty and distortion, tenderness and unease. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Trinidad (2002–2006) and earned her B.F.A. from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Havana (2007–2013). Rodriguez currently lives and works in the United States. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, including The Golden Mourning at Laundromat Art Space (Miami, 2020), Silent Singing at Isolo17 Gallery (Verona, Italy, 2019), and Brutal Light at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (California, 2014). She has also participated in major group exhibitions such as On the Samara’s Wing at The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery (Pembroke Pines, 2021), Sunny Art Prize (London, 2020), and Exposed at the Art and Culture Center (Hollywood, 2018).

Rodriguez has taken part in international art fairs including ArtVerona (2019–2021) and has completed residencies at Isolo17 Gallery (Italy, 2019) and the UNESCO-Aschberg/ Djerassi Program (California, 2014). Her work is represented in private collections across Cuba, the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and has been published in Artepoli, Arte al Límite, and CdeCuba Art Magazine, among others.

One of art’s most powerful qualities is its ability to be beautiful and unsettling at once. My work lives within that contrast—between tenderness and distortion, the alluring and the grotesque. This tension, this push and pull, is what most captivates me. I see my creative process as a journey through a hallucinatory world governed by its own logic and time. Quite yet loud, soft in appearance yet psychologically intense, the objects I create may seem delicate or comforting, but they often carry an eerie undercurrent. I feel compelled to transform them into something strange, even monstrous—yet always, to me, profoundly beautiful.