About

Gabriel Rojas (b. Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Drawing from various languages of abstraction—including modernist painting, graffiti, and Andean textile design—Rojas builds brightly colored layered compositions that navigates the complex terrain between memory, identity, and cultural inheritance. His work is driven by a process-based approach which he describes as “connecting memory with ritual through abstract painting,” a methodology that honors intuition as a form of ancestral knowledge. Rojas’ work often combines abstraction and representation, drawing and painting, and collage and textiles in various non-traditional ways. His work is populated with imagery that comes from language, diaristic doodles, and Andean motifs inspired by South American textiles and folklores he grew up with.

In weaving together multiple references through a process that continually re-purposes or expands itself, Rojas playfully embraces contradiction as a generative force:  where he can explore both his deep connection to his familial roots and his own personal belief systems, mapping the push and pull between cultural preservation and self-determination.

Rojas holds an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Studio Art from Oklahoma State University. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center, and his work has been published in New American Paintings.