Allison Maria Rodriguez is a first-generation Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist working predominantly in video installation. Her work focuses extensively on climate change, species extinction and the interconnectivity of existence. Through video, digital animation, performance, photography, drawing, collage and installation, Rodriguez creates immersive experiential spaces that challenge conventional ways of knowing and understanding the world. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally, in both traditional and non-traditional art spaces, such as the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (currently in the 2022 New England Triennial) and Boston Children’s Museum. Rodriguez is currently a Brother Thomas Fellow (2021-2022) of The Boston Foundation, and has previously been awarded an Earthwatch Communications Fellowship (2018) and the grand prize at the Creative Climate Awards (2017). In 2019 she was honored by WBUR as one of “The ARTery 25,” a celebration of 25 millennials of color impacting Boston’s arts and culture scene.

In addition to her practice, Rodriguez is also a curator, educator and arts organizer. She received her MFA from Tufts University/The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and holds a BA in Language, Literature and Culture from Antioch College in Ohio, obtained also through study at Oxford University in England and Kyoto Seika University in Japan.

Rodriguez was the winner of  13FOREST Gallery's Día de los Muertos Installation Project grant in 2017. Read about the installation she designed for the gallery here.

Rodriguez is featured in a two-person exhibition, Exquisite Entanglement, on view at 13FOREST July 23 - September 23, 2022.