Rodrigo de Toledo: Kin

October 19 – December 21, 2024 in the Project Gallery

Artist Talk: November 21, 2024, 6:30 pm

Kin celebrates fantastical ancestors on large acrylic paintings, transported from the walls of an otherworldly and ageless temple. Portraits of entities staring from a mythological realm. On a visually distressed canvas surface, de Toledo disrupts his own pre-established iconographic vocabulary and the visual language of comics and cartoons, using playfully fluid energetic graphisms. Access Rodrigo’s website here. 

Rodrigo de Toledo is a Brazilian-American, global multimedia contemporary artist, graphic designer, and a tenured visual communication professor at Northern Arizona University. De Toledo’s work has been awarded by Forbes, NASA, and Coca-Cola, and by the official selection of international animation and film festivals such as SIGGRAPH and RioCine Festival, has been featured on MTV, Canal + (France), PBS TV (USA), Globo TV (Brazil), and on publications such as How Magazine, and Leonardo Journal, as well as on numerous online platforms. His whimsical, imaginary visual worlds have been showcased in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, in museums and galleries, such as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), IBM Gallery (Brazil), Miyagi Museum of Art (Japan), Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum (USA), and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, where de Toledo started his career, and his studies in music composition, videoart, animation, and painting (Museum of Modern Art, and Parque Lage School of Visual Arts), followed by the degrees as Associate of Software Development (ORT Institute of Technology), Bachelor of Industrial Design / Graphic Design (Faculdade da Cidade), and a Master of Fine Arts, emphasis in Art and Technology (School of the Art Institute of Chicago).