Fidel Rodriguez

Fidel Rodriguez is a Venezuelan born artist founder and co-owner of Artspace 8, the largest contemporary art gallery in the Gold Coast of Chicago. Between 2015 and 2019 Artspace 8 has been dedicated to represent and propel artist's visions into the art market through an advanced incubator project. Artspace 8 is open seven days a week in Michigan Avenue to offer you the experience of a museum like setting with a bold and demystified narrative.
Fidel Rodriguez is a fine artist who started painting at a very early age, his earliest paintings and drawings were influenced by the “Tauromaquia”, inspired by his grandfather who was a bullfighter. He studied Graphic Design at the age of 17 in Caracas, Venezuela, and his prodigious talent eventually earned him a UNESCO scholarship to study Painting at the Armando Reveron University. Additionally, he was one of the youngest artists accepted at the Fifth National Biennial of Drawing in Caracas, and by 18 he was represented by Ars Forum Gallery in Venezuela. Since then, Fidel Rodriguez worked for several years as a scenic artist for an Italian corporation in the Dominican Republic and Mexico. In 1998 in New York City and working as a set designer Fidel made into his first serious representati...

Graphic Design, Villasmil Artistic Center, Caracas Venezuela 1989

Fine Arts, Federico Brandt Art Institute, Caracas Venezuela1990

*Fine Arts, Iuesapar, Caracas Venezuela 1990

*Art and Ecology by Mindy Lorenz, Caracas Venezuela 1992

Active Masters of the Fifteenth Century, Caracas Venezuela 1992

Advanced Nude Body Drawing Seminar, Caracas Venezuela 1992

*Renaissance Art Analysis, Florence Italy 1995
*UNESCO. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Full Scholarship at IUESAPAR

*Mindy Lorenz from the California Polytechnic State University

*UFFIZI Museum





SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2011

Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2011

Recent Acquisitions, William Whipple Art Gallery, Marshal, MN 2004-2005

American, Gallery 49, NYC 2004

Visions of Latin America, CVB Studios, NYC 2003

Visions of Latin America, William Whipple Gallery, Marshal, MN 2003

Visions of Latin America, Credit Swisse, NYC 2003

Visions of Latin America, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC 2003

Visions of Latin America, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC 2002

Visions of Latin America, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC 2001

ArtLandUsa Group Show, New Century Artists Gallery, NYC ...

Permanent Collections

William Whipple Gallery, MN
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, NY
Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO
Mercantil Bank Presidential Office, Caracas, Venezuela
BankInvest, Caracas, Venezuela
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005Samsara Awareness, Ubu Fine Art, Chicago, IL
1999 Secret Worlds, Kavehaz, NYC
1992 Intolerances, Victor Millan Gallery, Venezuela
1990The Connection of Insane Ideas, Venezuela


Selected Group Exhibitions



Chévere, Sirona Fine Art, Hallandale Beach 2016

E la Vita, ARTSPACE 8, Chicago, IL, USA 2015

SOFA CHICAGO, Km Fine Arts booth, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2011

ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL

2004-2005 Recent Acquisitions, William Whipple Art Gallery, Marshal, MN

2004 American, Gallery 49, New York City, NY

2003-2001Visions of Latin America, CVB Studios, NY
Visions of Latin America, William Whipple Gallery, Marshal, MN
Visions of Latin America, Credit Swisse, New York City, NY
Visions of Latin America, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NY
2000 Visions of Latin America, New Century Artists Gallery, NY
1999Artists for the New Millennium, New Century Artists Gallery, NY
Independent Film and Video Festival, Madison Square Garden, NY
Surreal Sh...