Emilio Rojas
Birthdate: 1985
Birthplace: Mexico
Based location: United States and Canada
Social profiles
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Emilio Rojas profile at Chicago Artist Coalition
Emilio Rojas profile at The Brooklyn Rail
Emilio Rojas contributors profile at 221A, last updated 2014
Biography
Emilio Rojas (1985, Mexico City, Mexico)
Emilio Rojas is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist and educator based in New York and Canada. Emilio’s education began at the medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico in 2008. Later on, Emilio changed paths to the arts and completed a bachelor of fine arts in film, video and integrated media from Emily Carr University in Vancouver in 2012. He continued post-graduate studies, completing a master of fine arts in performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Emilio has held permanent teaching positions at Bard College in New York and Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University in New York. Additionally, Emilio has participated in many residencies including the 2017–2018 BOLT studio residency in Chicago. He was the visiting artist/scholar in residency in the Theater and Performance Department at Bard College in New York for the 2019–2021 academic year and the inaugural resident of the Judy Pfaff Foundation in 2019–2020.
Emilio Rojas’s studio work includes photography, video, performance, and installations to explore the politics of a queer immigrant body. Emilio has showcased in the solo exhibitions The Intersection Between Art, Politics, and Understanding (2022) at the Media Art Gallery in Boston Massachusetts, tracing a wound through my body (2021) at the Grossman Gallery at Lafayette Art Galleries in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 2021 and One Night Stand (2015) at the Mónica Reyes Gallery in Vancouver. His work has also been part of the collective exhibitions In Flux: Migration (2020) at the Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, Live Arts Bards Biennale (2019) at Bard College, Fisher Centre New York, and Xu (2018) in collaboration with Natalia Toledo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Go back where you came from (Mayflower)
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Digital photograph
Image from archival documentation from performance series, Go back where you came from, 2019, Cornell Architecture, Art and Planning, Google Images 2023
Solo exhibitions
Emilio Rojas press release by Chadd Scott, solo exhibition Tracing a wound through my Body, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina, 2023
Emilio Rojas press release by CVNC online journal, solo exhibition Tracing a wound through my Body, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina, 2023
Emilio Rojas press release by Dalia Razo, solo exhibition Tracing a wound through my Body, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina, Yes! Weekly, 2023
Emilio Rojas interview by Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, solo exhibition Tracing a wound through my Body, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina, 2023
Emilio Rojas solo exhibition Tracing a wound through my Body, curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont, 2023
Emilio Rojas solo exhibition The Intersection Between Art, Politics and Understanding, Media Art Gallery, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, 2022
Emilio Rojas review by Celina Colby, solo exhibition The Intersection Between Art, Politics and Understanding, Media Art Gallery, Emerson College, Boston, The Bay State Banner, 2022
Emilio Rojas solo exhibition Tracing a wound through my Body, curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin, Grossman Gallery at Lafayette Art Galleries, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2021
Emilio Rojas press release by Locate Arts, solo exhibition Instructions for becoming, COOP Gallery, Tennessee, 2020
Emilio Rojas solo exhibition One Night Stand, Mónica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver, 2015
Collective exhibitions
Emilio Rojas collective exhibition Remember Where You Are, curated by Mia Lopez, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2019- 2020
Emilio Rojas press release by Chicago Gallery News, Artist Performance: Emilio Rojas, collective exhibition Remember Where You Are, curated by Mia Lopez, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2019- 2020
Emilio Rojas collective exhibition Living Architecture, co-curated by Tricia Van Eck and Teresa Silva with Nathan Abhalter Smith, 6018 North, Chicago, 2018- 2019
Emilio Rojas review by Sabrina Greig, collective exhibition Living Architecture, co-curated by Tricia Van Eck and Teresa Silva with Nathan Abhalter Smith, 6018 North, Chicago Artist Writers Platform, 2018
Emilio Rojas collective exhibition Rule of Three, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2018
Interviews
Emilio Rojas interview by Laurel V. McLaughlin, Public Parking, 2021
Presentations
Emilio Rojas and Katiushka Melo press release by Syracuse University News Arts & Culture, Syracuse University Art Museum Hosts Performance, 2023
Emilio Rojas and Katiushka Melo press release by Syracuse University Entertainment, Syracuse University Art Museum Hosts Performance, 2023
Emilio Rojas and Laura Larson Online Artist Conversation, Sigal Museum, Pennsylvania, 2021
Emilio Rojas residency presentation Ash To Ash, Glass House Projects, New York, 2021
Emilio Rojas press release by Creatrix Magazine, residency presentation Ash To Ash, Glass House Projects, New York, 2021
Emilio Rojas online presentation with Rebecca Schneider, Your Corner of the World, Brown Arts Initiative, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2020
Emilio Rojas performance programming In Progress: Emilio Rojas, by Curator January Parkos Arnall, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, 2019
Published work by Emilio Rojas
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Published work about Emilio Rojas
Emilio Rojas review by Emanuela Zanon, "Emilio Rojas. The Lions Teeth And/Or The World Was Once Flat," Juliet Contemporary Art Magazine, 2018
Press release
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List of Grants, Awards and Projects
Emilio Rojas and Pamela Sneed, Hands to Hold digital commission, Open Society University Network, 2021
Emilio Rojas video conversation performance presentation ‘Alien Tears’ Honors A Summer Tragedy, by Cassandra Davis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, F News Magazine, 2016
Emilio Rojas review by Stevie Stevens, Dandelions and Naked Bodies: Emilio Rojas Artist Talk and Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, F News Magazine, 2016
Emilio Rojas collective project This Place Vancouver, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, 2012
Emilio Rojas and Jeremy Harris, film project Intersections, Elsewhere Artist Residency and Museum, North Carolina, 2012