Biography

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova was born in Havana, Cuba in 1973. He is an artist, curator, co-founder, and co-director of Dimensions Variable (DV) and resides in Miami. He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design as well as the New World School of the Arts. Rodriguez-Casanova is a recipient of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts and has been awarded two South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships. He was also nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship and United States Artists Fellowship. His projects have received support from various entities including The National Endowment for the Arts, The Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the State of Florida, and he has been recognized as a five-time Knight Foundation award winner.

Select exhibitions include Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; The Center for Architecture and Design, Miami, FL; Factoria Habana, Havana, Cuba; Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL; ZONA MACO Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway; Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida; David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL; Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida.

Selected collections include Sayago & Pardon Collection, San Diego, CA; Alfredo Hertzog Da Silva, Sao Palo, Brazil; Cintas Foundation Collection, Miami, FL; The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; Capri Palace, Capri, Italy; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Miami, FL; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Frost Museum of Art, Miami, FL. Select coverage of Rodriguez-Casanova’s projects have been in The New York Times, ARTnews, Art in America, Art Nexus, Sculpture Magazine, The Miami Rail, Temporary Art Review, ArtSlant, Aesthetica Magazine, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, PBS News Hour and The Miami New Times.

His work is in select publications, including Fortunate Objects, published by CIFO and Edizioni Chart, Milano; Remains-Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction, published by the Sayago Collection and Hatje Cantz, Berlin. Since co-founding DV in 2009, he has organized and curated many projects by local and international emerging artists.