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Dzine (born Carlos Rolon 1970; lives and works in Chicago)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
  • The Beautiful Struggle, Deitch Projects, New York

  • Emily Murphy Contemporary, Madrid, Spain

  • Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois


    • 2007
  • Bang!, Contemporary Arts Society, Rome

  • Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands


    • 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 (catalogue.)

  • Just Kidding, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom


    • 2005

  • Punk Funk, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (catalogue)


    • 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, Illinois )

  • Dzine, Equal Gallery, Osaka, Japan (catalogue.)

  • Beautiful Things, SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary, Tokyo

  • Project Spaces, ARCO ‘04, 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/Projects

    2008
  • Not So Minimal, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium


    • 2007
  • Barrio Dreams, Deitch Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Miami, FL

  • A Poem about an Inland Sea, Ukrainian Pavilion, 52nd Biennale di Venezia

  • Carribean Encounters, Brooklyn Museum, New York

  • Simply Beautiful, LABoral, Gijon, Spain

  • Generations U(s)A, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev

  • Public Image, Painting the City, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands


    • 2006
  • Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom

  • 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)



    • Artist in Residence

  • Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom

  • City of Chicago Sister Cities Program,The National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya



    • Grants/Awards

  • Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award

  • National Endowment for the Arts



    • Public Collections

  • 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, Netherlands

  • Nerman Museum of Art, Kansas City

  • Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev

  • Sal. Oppenheim Collection, Germany

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