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Shellyne Rodriguez

Shellyne Rodriguez is a community organizer and a visual artist. As an organizer, she is an active member of radical grassroots collective Take Back the Bronx, who agitate and organize for community control of land and housing. As an artist, her work is a decolonial baroque practice which utilizes text, drawing, painting, found materials, and sculpture to depict subjects and spaces in contention with subjugation. Shellyne graduated with a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies From the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Fine Art from CUNY Hunter College. She has had her work and community projects exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum, and the New Museum. She is currently working on a permanent public sculpture commissioned by the city of New York, which will serve as a monument to the people of the Bronx.

Features

Acta del Desastre

By Shellyne Rodriguez, Iris Dipini and Comité por la Defensa AntillanaSeptember 11, 2019
El levantamiento de Puerto Rico y la Instrumentalización de Lin-Manuel Miranda
Features

Disaster Act

By Shellyne Rodriguez, Iris Dipini and Comité por la Defensa AntillanaSeptember 11, 2019
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Essays & Reviews

How the Bronx was Branded

By Shellyne RodriguezDecember 12, 2018
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
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