Artist: Ricardo Rodriguez

Exhibition Title: A Shell Casing In The Garden

Exhibtion Dates: April 19-23, 2027

Reception and Gallery Talk: TBD

Bio:

Ricardo Rodriguez is a photographic artist living and working in Columbia, South Carolina. His work focuses on fatherhood, family dynamics, post-traumatic stress and understanding his own self while adjusting to ordinary life after military service. After 12-years of military service, he earned a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina. He worked as a commercial photographer for three years, in both the private and public sector. At the moment, he is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at USC. 

His work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at both the student and main gallery at the School of Visual Art and Design, group exhibitions at Stormwater Studios, group exhibition at the Richland County public library, and was feature in a magazine article, the South Carolina Voyager. 

If he is not at the University, he is found spending time with his beautiful family of two boys and an amazing wife. He is currently in the midst of a new body of work that centers on the self, after coming back from War. He is also working on new ideas centered on the criticism of the government mishandling war fighters after serving during war.