Juan Rodriguez Sandoval

Juan Rodriguez Sandoval is a Guatemalan-born, Australian interdisciplinary artist and educator, working and based in Brayakaulung country (South East Gippsland), and Boonwurrung country (Koolin Nations) Australia.

​His work and practice create fictional manifestations coinciding within and echoing the bygone place and era that has become historically and geographically distant. To create a mythos and lore that explores timeworn ecologies, ways of being, and how these passages and precincts should be practised and preserved.

​With an emphasis and interest in the aesthetics of scientific language and methods of documentation, Rodriguez's practice is informed and moulded by bridging forestry, archaeology, topography, geology, geography, ecology, and fine art.

​He works with an array of earthly, found, recycled/upcycled- materials and contemporary technologies. His work aims to bring a consensus and a studious experience to further remind the spectator about ecological awareness and, culture as well as, sustainable approaches to art-making.

Cert IV in Design, Charles Darwin University, 2015.
Bachelor of Fine Art Monash University, 2019.
Masters of Education, Deakin University, 2026.

Juan has shown at School House Studios, Blindside gallery, Trocadero Art Space, Noir Darkroom, Kingston Arts Gallery, Intermission Gallery, Monash University, Brickwall Studios, No Vacancy Gallery, and Marfa Gallery. Juan has been a finalist for the McClelland award for small sculpture and has taken an Artist residency with Brazilian Artist Run Space, Olhão, in Barra Funda, São Paulo, Brazil, and The Land Art Collective in London, England. Juan's work is also housed in private collections in Australia and overseas.