Sandy Rodriguez

Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, California) is a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher. Her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Amon Carter Museum, TX; The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Garden, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; and the Mellon Art Collection, NYC, among others. She has been honored with multiple fellowships and awards, including the 2025-2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art from The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Garden, a 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship, the 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, the Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency 2020-2021, and the Creative Capital Award 2021. Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News’s In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Spectrum News 1, and others.