Artist

Consuelo Rodriguez, painter, sculptor, poet, and art therapist, was invited as a painting instructor at the International Academy of Art Kolbermoor (Germany), and previously served as professor at the Tiepolo Academy of Fine Arts in Udine. She was born in Trieste in 1962.

She trained at the Scuola Libera di Figura with Nino Perizi in Trieste, attended the School of Visual Art in New York, the Academy of Art in Salzburg with Viennese actionist Hermann Nitsch, Spanish hyperrealist Isabel Quintanilla, and the Academy of Art in Kolbermoor with Markus Lüpertz, leading representative of the German Neo-Expressionism movement, as well as with the Zhou Brothers from Chicago, working on large-scale formats.

She also studied with Lilo Rinkens, conceptual artist, with Gerard Almbauer exploring material techniques, with Professors Gleich and Harald Gangl of Vienna at the Academy of Bad Reichenhall in Germany; she studied sculpture in Carrara with Professors Boutros and Lutfi Romheim.

She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including New York, Chicago, Miami, Shanghai, Berlin, London, Paris, Salzburg, and Istanbul. Her works are included in public and private collections in Italy, Croatia, Austria, Spain, France, and Germany.

She has received awards both for painting and for her poetry collections, which have been translated and published in English, Slovenian, Albanian, and Romanian. Her poetry collections were presented at the Turin International Book Fair and at the book section of Art Basel 2020. She was the winner, in the published poetry collection category, of the International Literature Prize 2022 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Naples.

She won again in the unpublished poetry category of the International Literature Prize 2024 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Naples.

She has been awarded a scholarship at the Zhou Brothers Art Center in Chicago and another at the Academy of Art in Bad Reichenhall, Germany.