Biography
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova’s work asks questions regarding domestic objects, suburban clichés, their environments and the labor associated with these traditions. By drawing attention to the aesthetics of the banal and its production methods in relation to art history, his work brings up issues of value, class, ethics, economics and identity. Through these issues, he is directly addressing the concepts of home, habitation and the primal search for safety and security.
The artist was born in 1973 in Havana, Cuba and he immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1980 during the Mariel boat lift. He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design and the New World School of the Arts where he was awarded the Frances Wolfson Endowed Visual Arts Scholarship. He has exhibited in major cities nationally including New York and Miami and internationally in Basel, Switzerland, as well as Latin America. His work has been featured in various publications including The Miami Herald, Miami New Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art Nexus and Artnet.com. Rodriguez-Casanova is in the permanent collection of CIFO: The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and the Bass Museum of Art, as well as private collections throughout the United States.