Term: October ’25 – January ’26
Mars Rodriguez is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in New York City, with roots reaching to Nicaragua and El Salvador. She works across whatever medium is shouting at her loudest: sculpture, performance, textiles, printmaking, painting, and video. Her practice is rooted in transformation of materials, memory, and emotion. She often works with found, salvaged, or donated objects, things others discard or hold onto tightly. She creates using what’s available, not just by necessity, but because these materials carry lived experience.
Her work is tactile, emotional, intuitive, and layered, often blending softness with rupture, ritual with reflection. Whether she’s stitching fabric, sculpting forms, or building immersive installations, she creates spaces that hold grief, survival, motherhood, and cultural memory. Her pieces can feel like altars, offerings, or like fragments of something once whole. She sees her process as a way of witnessing, remembering, and reshaping what’s been left behind.
