José Rodeiro
José Rodeiro is a recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts; a Fulbright Fellow (completing his Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Central America (UCA), Managua, Nicaragua); a Fellow of the Institute for International Education (New York City, New York) and a Cintas Fellow in painting. He received his M.F.A from Pratt Institute, NY and his Ph.D. from Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts, his BA in painting hails from the University of Tampa, Florida. He has lived and worked in Spain, Central America, and Latin America. His exhibitions include: Miami-Dade Museum of Art & Design, Miami, Florida; The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey; Union City Museum, Union City, NJ; The Museum of Fine Arts, Washington County, Hagerstown, Maryland; Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ; Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkelaba Gallery (the New York State Arts Council Gallery in Manhattan) NYC, NY; Florida International University’s Frost Museum (Miami, FL), The Korea Gallery (NYC, NY), Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; NJPAC Gallery, Newark, NJ; Galleries of Contemporary Art (GoCA), University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Rutgers University’s UMDNJ’s Robert Wood Johnson Gallery, New Jersey; Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California; Perth Amboy Gallery (Center for the Arts), New Jersey; El Museo de la Historia de Ponce (“MoHP”), Ponce, Puerto Rico; several La Ruche Art Consortium exhibitions, Union City, NJ; PCCC Broadway/LRC Gallery (Paterson, NJ), 14 Maple Gallery (Morris County Arts Council/Geraldine Dodge Foundation), Morristown, NJ; Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery (College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ), Qbava Gallery (Union City, NJ) and other venues. Throughout the Tampa Bay Area, he shows with Bella Unica Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL. In October 2009, Rodeiro lectured on his painting “9/11” at The Tribute WTC Visitor Center (at Ground Zero, New York City, NY). In fall 2019, at Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg (FL), he gave an “Artist Talk” on Latinx Art.
Dr. Rodeiro is an alumnus of Jesuit High School of Tampa. And, has lectured as a Visiting Professor, Department of Visual Poetics, UNESP (Sao Paulo University, Bauru), Brazil, fall 2011, and as a Visiting Professor, Art Department, UNESP (Sao Paulo University), Sao Paulo, Brazil, fall 2011. And, he worked in Barcelona, Spain, from 1985-1986, during his Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, [(Washington, DC)]. He is a former-Professor of Studio Art and Art History at New Jersey City University (Jersey City, New Jersey); as well as within the University of Maryland System’s Frostburg campus, along with teaching art history within Pratt Institute’s Graduate Program, and color-theory courses for Professor Salvatore Tagliarino within the Design Department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NYC, NY.
