http://www.carlosrolondzine.com

RECENT MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS

BRONX MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK

DAEGU MUSEUM OF ART, SOUTH KOREA

PONCE MUSEUM OF ART, PUERTO RICO

ROCKFORD MUSEUM OF ART, ILLINOIS

EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS

2016

Tropicalizia, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico (Forthcoming)

Ace of Fades, (on the wall) Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago

I Tell You This Sincerely, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

Vintage Voyages and Atomic Memories, Mike Kelleys Homestead, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Michigan

Commonwealth, Oakland University Art gallery, Michigan



2015

Encounters  Invitational Sector, Art Basel, Hong Kong

Now and Then, Rockford Art Museum, Illinois

Mi Casa, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore

Rolls-Royce Art Initiative, Singapore



2014

Tunnel Vision, space k, Gwangju

New Work, Walter Otero Contemporary, San Juan

Trophy Room, COLLABORATIONS, Art Cologne Invitational, Salon 94 and Galerie Henrik Springmann, Cologne, Germany

Thinking of Forever, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul

Dzine: Born Carlos Roln, 1970, Paul Kasmin Gallery and Salon 94, New York



2013

Victory, Public Functionary, Minneapolis

Victory, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas



2012

Imperial Nail Salon, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin

Phenomenon, Deptford X, London (Curated by Hew Locke and Indra Khanna)

La Pelanda  Centro Di Produzione Culturale, Installation and performance, Rome



2011

Imperial Nail Salon, Salon 94, New York

Get Nailed at the New Museum, performance, installation, New Museum, New York

Zeniths and Daytons, Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg



2010

Voodoo, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York

Voodoo, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna

Posse, Flint Institute of Arts (fleckenstein video gallery), Michigan



2009

Bass Museum of Art, Miami

Love & Loyalty, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea



2008

The Beautiful Struggle, Deitch Projects, New York

Emily Murphy Contemporary, Madrid, Spain

Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Carlos Roln/Dzine (b. 1970, Chicago, IL) attended Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in painting and drawing. Roln has been recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings, ornate sculptures and works that come out of American, Latino and uniquely based subcultures. His studio practice investigates pop culture, craft, ritual, beauty and its relationship to art history, subculture, appropriation and the institution. As a first-generation immigrant of Puerto Rican decent, the artist creates objects questioning the concept of luxury and craft making to explore questions of identity, integration and aspiration. His work also represents a detailed examination of curiosity and the process of art making and the cultures surrounding this. The work often addresses his biography by melding memory and the imaginary with carefully crafted, hybrid works that are playfully situated between the contradictory worlds of conspicuous consumption and urban artifact. The work is at once melancholic, excessive and exuberant, poised somewhere between celebration and regret. Roln illuminates how the masculine can become delicate and the how the baroque can be minimal. The artist often channels this approach with site-specific installation work, vivid large-scale paintings and ornate sculptures in various materials expanding on ideas of self-reflection and imagined luxury. The works ultimately produce a hybrid language of social practice, painting and sculpture inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion.



Roln has had solo exhibitions at The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and CAM Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. His work has also been exhibited in group shows at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany; Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museo del Barrio, New York and Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Canary Islands; Oakland University Art Gallery, Michigan and Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico.



In 2007 Roln represented Ukraine in the 52nd Venice Biennale. He is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation award for Painting and Sculpture. Rolns work is included in the following public collections: Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Brooklyn Museum, New York; City of Chicago Public Art Collection; Deagu Art Museum, Deagu; Museo del Barrio, New York; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine, among others.