Carlos Rigau, born and raised in little Havana Miami Florida.
Carlos graduated in 2002 from F.I.U. with a double major in Fine art and Media Communications. In 2010 Rigau completed Hunters MFA program in NYC. He has exhibited his work in Berlin, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Miami. In addition to art making Carlos started and operated an experimental artist run space named General Practice. He has completed residencies at Acadia Summer Arts Program {Kamp Kippy}, Everglades AIRE, E.D.R. North Carolina, LMCC Governors Island Ecology NYC, Carrizozo New Mexico artist residency, Fountainhead and the Deering estate in Miami. Fellowships at A.I.M. Bronx Museum and a Media arts Fellow at BRIC in Brooklyn NY. Recipient of Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIA artist grant and Locust Projects Public art grant.
My experience growing up in urban Miami’s Little Havana has profoundly influenced my work. Miami is a city rich with artifice and replicas. A place where the impersonal automation of technology illuminates its economic disparity. My interests are rooted in these formative surroundings. With that, I utilize images, moving imagery, sculpture, and performance to explore the effects of social classism, surveillance, and ecological issues on regional and global scale. The work imitates the materials and aesthetics of art, while considering the psychology used by the culture industry. Thus weaponizing the formal means of mass consumption and transmission. Critical agitation and defamiliarization is the intent.
Selected Exhibitions
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2026 Re Happening Black Mountain College Archive North Carolina
2025 Landscapes of Fear International Waters Brooklyn NY
Bump in the Night The Collective 62 Miami FL
2024 Fighting Kissing Dancing Sunview Luncheonette Brooklyn NY
2008 Sink 2024 Sunk.: An Incomplete History of Artist Collectives and Artist-Run Spaces in Miami.
Name Publications Miami Fl
Comic Sans Bankers Anchor Brooklyn NY
2023 Making Miami Dimensions Variable Pavilion Miami FL
Local Objects International Objects Brooklyn NY
Blue Print. Bridge Red studios Miami FL
2022 Endless Everglades (solo project) Hernando's Hideaway Miami Beach Fl
2021 Ocean Less Beach (solo project) P.A.D. NY NY
2020 Meme Underdonk Brooklyn NY
2019 Wanderers Tile Blush Miami Florida
Tension in Three Dimensions Deering Estate Miami FL
From the Vassari Collection Main Miami Dade Public Library Miami FL
2018 New York Flowers Festival Essex Flowers NY, NY
Elements Book Store Gallery at Hunter College NY, NY
2017 Invitational Painting Party Hot White Men Projects Brooklyn NY
2016 Cintas Finalist Exhibition Freedom Tower MDC Galley. Miami FL.
Cold Verse Knock Down Center Brooklyn NY with Y2K.
Delusions through Details(solo show) LMAK gallery NY,NY
2015 Santa Toy Shop goes to Cuba (solo project) Meeting House Miami Fl.
Cut N Mix : Contemporary Collage El Museo del Barrio, NY NY
{curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado}
Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial Bronx Museum,Bronx, NY
{Curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier}
2014 Cintas Finalist Exhibition Freedom Tower MDC Galley. Miami FL.
Anomie: Fractured art norms Suny Cortland Gallery Westchester , NY
Leather Thomas Erben Gallery NY, NY
2013 Rainbow Juice Helper Brooklyn NY
By Design Locust Projects, {projects space solo} Miami Fl
Plastic Ruins LMAK Projects {solo show} NY, NY
2012 Store Front Organized by Ibett Yanez and Tiffany Chestler, Miami Fl
Funded by the de la Cruz collection and DACRA.
Magnetic Poetry {solo show} Dorsch Gallery , Miami Fl.
Practice Remain Regina Rex, Brooklyn NY
2011 Open David Castillo Gallery, Miami Fl.
Liquid Matter { co-curated exhibition with Ibett Yanez }
At the Fabric workshop / de la Cruz collection Philadelphia, PA
Fighting Dancing Kissing {curatorial intervention}
Fabric workshop / de la Cruz collection Philadelphia, PA
Friends don’t have sleepovers {solo show} LMAK projects N.Y.
2010 Fighting Dancing Kissing {curatorial intervention}
de la CRUZ collection, Miami Fl
The Funny guy that StickS his hand in the paInt BuCKet.
Dimensions Variable , Miami Fl
Bubble Raft Dorsch Gallery, Miami FL
ELSE Tilton Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2009 Miami MediaMesh at the American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
F(r)acture: divisions in painting Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Radiant Decay Curated by Meghan Carleton Warburg, New York , N.Y
Our Great Show Nice and Fit Gallery Berlin, Germany
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