Favianna Rodriguez

Favianna Rodriguez is a printmaker and digital artist whose work deals with contemporary political issues and social movements. Her posters and murals have been exhibited at institutions including the Museo del Barrio, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Mexican Fine Arts Center, Chicago; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and the Oakland Museum of California; she has been awarded residencies at the de Young Museum and Kala Art Institute. She is co-founder of several organizations, including the Taller Tupac Amaru printing studio, EastSide Arts Alliance, and Visual Element, each dedicated to promoting screenprinting and muralism as forms of civic engagement, and Tumis Inc., a design studio that integrates art with digital technologies. With Josh MacPhee, she co-edited Reproduce and Revolt! (Soft Skull Press, 2008), a collection of illustrations for royalty-free use. In 2005, Rodriguez was awarded an Art Is a Hammer Award from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. She lives in Oakland.