Codex Rodríguez-Mondragón, 2017–2023

Sandy Rodriguez is a Los Angeles-based artist and researcher and a first-generation Chicana raised on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez earned her BFA from California Institute of Arts. She has exhibited her works worldwide, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth; Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California; Denver Art Museum; and others. Among her most recent awards are the 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize. Her work has been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times, and on a range of radio programs and podcasts.