1970 Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA
1989 Briefly studied at Columbia College, Chicago, USA
2011 Kraus Visiting Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA
Lives and works in Chicago, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Carlos Rolón: Lost In Paradise ,Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens ,Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Carlos Rolón: Classic Tracks: Migrating Rhythms ,MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana ,San Jose, California, USA
Carlos Rolón: Buscando America ,Library Street Collective, Detroit ,Detroit, Michigan, USA
Carlos Rolón/Dzine: Untitled ,Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art ,Overland Park, Kansas, USA
Carlos Rolón: Outside/In ,New Orleans Museum of Art ,New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2016 Commonwealth, Oakland University Art gallery, Michigan
I Tell You This Sincerely, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Imperial Nail Salon, Mike Kelley’s Homestead, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Michigan(upcoming)
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Tropicalizia ,Museo de Arte de Ponce ,Ponce, Puerto Rico
Carlos Rolón/Dzine: Vintage Voyages and Atomic Memories ,Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ,Detroit, Michigan, USA
Carlos Rolón/Dzine: I Tell You This Sincerely ,Chicago Cultural Center ,Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2015 Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, Encounters E6 (organized by LEEAHN GALLERY), Hong Kong
Carlos Rolón/Dzine: Now and Then, Rockford Art Museum, Illinois
Carlos Rolón/Dzine: MI CASA, Pear Lam Galleries, Singapore
Rolls-Royce Art Initiative, Singapore
2014 Tunnel Vision, Space K, Gwangju
New York, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan
Trophy Room, COLLABORATIONS, Art Colone Invitational, Salon 94 and Galerie Henrik Springmann, Cologne
Thinking of Forever, LEEAHN Gallery, Seoul
Dzine: Born Carlos Rolon, 1970, Paul Kasmin Gallery & Salon 94, New York
2013 Victory, Public Functionary, Minneapolis
Victory, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas
2012 Imperial Nail Salon, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin
Phenomenon, Deptford X, London
La Pelanda - Centro Di Produzione Culturale, Installation and performance, Rome
2011 Imperial Nail Salon, Salon 94, New York
Get Nailed at the New Museum, Performance and installation, New Museum, New York
Zeniths and Daytons, Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg
2010 Voodoo, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York
Voodoo, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Posse, Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
2009 Love & Loyalty, LEEAHN GALLERY, Daegu
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
2008 The Beautiful Struggle, Deitch Projects, New York
Emily Murphy Contemporary, Madrid
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
2007 Bang!, Contemporary Arts Society, Rome
Museum Het Domein, Sittard
2006 Stealing Dreams, SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary, Tokyo
Somewhere over the Rainbow, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Dzine, Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Just Kidding, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2005 Punk Funk, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
2004 Staring at the Sun, Moniquemeloche, Chicago
Gangster Boogie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Dzine, Illinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago
Traveled to; University of Missouri - Gallery 210, St. Louis; Illinois State Museum, Lockport
Dzine, Equal Gallery, Osaka
Beautiful Things, SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary, Tokyo
Project Space, ARCO ‘04-International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
2003 Alley Oop, Institute of Visual Art Center (inova), Milwaukee
Tokyo Boogie, University of Alabama Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham Alabama
2002 Beat Junkie, Chop Shop, Moniquemeloche Gallery, Chicago
Sampler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Accidents [Part I] ,Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong (Pedder) ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2019 Wide World of Sports ,Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton ,East Hampton, New York, USA
PRIDE: A large-scale exhibition marking the #Stonewall50 anniversary ,Postmasters ,Tribeca, New York, USA
Drawn Together Again ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2018 BLOOM / WILT / BLOOM ,Elga Wimmer PCC ,Chelsea, New York, USA
Pardon My Language ,Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery ,Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2017 Acts Of Transgression ,Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong (Pedder) ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
No burden as heavy ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
Maker, Maker ,Children's Museum of The Arts ,New York, USA
The Times ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
Materialised Condition ,Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore Dempsey Hill ,Singapore, Singapore
2016 DNA, Daegue Art Museum, Daegu
Carlos Rolón/Dzine and Enoc Perez ,Chimento Contemporary ,Los Angeles, California, USA
Two Years of Looking ,New Art Projects, London ,London, UK
18th Latino Art Now! ,MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana ,San Jose, California, USA
2015 Body Embellishment, The Mint Museum, Charlotte
Custom Lives: Rasquache Renaissance, MACLA, San Jose, California
Refuge, Curated by Camille Obering, Art Basel Miami Beach
Benefit Art Auction ,Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
All Killer No Filler ,Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton ,East Hampton, New York, USA
BLACK / WHITE ,Miles McEnery Gallery, 525 W 22nd Street ,Chelsea, New York, USA
Body Embellishment ,Mint Museum of Art, Uptown ,Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2014 SHAQ LOVES PEOPLE, The Flag Foundation, EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago
Tradiciones, Rockford Art Museum, Illinois
Booster: Art Sound Machine, MARTa Herfod, Herfod
2013 In God We Trust: The Religious Mosaic of America (curated by Maria Brewinska), Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Ghost Stories, site-specific installation, Museums Quartier, Vienna
Site-specific installation and presentation (in conjunction with GalerieSpringmann), Schloß Altenburg Castle, Munich
The Concept of Baroque in Contemporary Art, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin
On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palman de Gran Canaria
Homebodies (curated by Naomi Beckwith), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2012 The Haberdashery, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
2011 Write Now: Artists and Letterforms, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
2010 LEGAL TENDER, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles
Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan
Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2009 Stages (organized by Lance Armstrong and Nike), Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2008 Not So Minimal, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende
2007 Barrio Dreams, Deitch Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Miami
A Poem about an Inland Sea, Ukrainian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale
Carribean Encounters, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Simply Beautiful, LABoral, Gijon
Generations U(s)A, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
Public Image, Painting the City, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg
2006 Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
New Territories: On Youth Culture, Carla Arocha and Dzine, ARCO’06, Madrid
2005 Lost in Music, Nerman Museum of Art/JCCC, Overland Park, Kansas
2004 None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists, Real Art Ways, Hartford. Traveled to; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
Stop & Stor: new painters, LUXE Gallery, New York
2003 Painting by Design, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit
Sk8 on the Wall, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo. Traveled to; Parco Gallery, Nagoya
Awards
2006 Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award
2012 National Endowment for the Arts
Public Collections
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
BMW/KOLON Group, Seoul
Brooklyn Museum, New York
City of Chicago Public Art Collection, Illinois
Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium
Museo del Barrio, New York
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Museum Het Domein, Sittard
Nerman Museum of Art, Kansas City
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Rockfort Art Museum, Illinois
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collection, New York
Sal. Oppenheim Collection, Cologne, Germany
Yuz Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
