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Dzine
(Born Carlos Rolon in Chicago, Illinois, 1970. Lives and works in Chicago)

Education
1989 Briefly studied at Columbia College, Chicago
2011 Kraus Visiting Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg


Selected Solo Exhibitions/Projects

2013
  • The Dallas Contemporary, (Forthcoming), Dallas

    2012
  • Galerie Henrik Springmann, (Fall 2012), Düsseldorf
  • Phenomenon, Deptford X, London (Curated by Hew Locke and Indra Khanna)

  • La Pelanda - Centro Di Produzione Culturale, Installation and performance, Rome


  • 2011
  • Imperial Nail Salon, Salon 94, New York
  • Get Nailed at the New Museum, performance, window installation, New Museum, New York
  • Zeniths and Daytons, Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg

    2010
  • Voodoo, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York

  • Voodoo, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna

  • Posse, Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan


  • 2009
  • Bass Museum of Art, Miami

  • Love & Loyalty, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea


  • 2008
  • The Beautiful Struggle, Deitch Projects, New York

  • Emily Murphy Contemporary, Madrid, Spain

  • Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois


  • 2007
  • 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 Invitational, ARCO ‘04-International Contemporary Art Fair, 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

    2012
  • The Haberdashery, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York

    2011
  • Experience Pommery #9 (La Fabrique sonore), curated by Claire Staebler and Charles Carcopino, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

  • Write Now: Artists and Letterforms, Chicago Cultural Center

  • Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and POST, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy

  • Geared: The Culture of Bicycles, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho

  • VOCES Y VISIONES: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York


  • 2010
  • Legal Tender, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, curated by Takashi Azumaya, Busan

  • Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
  • (I Can) Feel the Pulse, MAMA, Rotterdam

    2009
  • Stages (organized by Lance Armstrong and Nike), Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
    (Traveled to Deitch Projects, New York, and O.H.W.O.W, Miami)

    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 Venice Biennale

  • 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, Parco Gallery, Tokyo



  • Artist in Residence

  • Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao Centre For Contemporary Art, Netherlands Antilles

  • 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

  • Brooklyn Museum, NY

  • City of Chicago Public Art Collection, Illinois

  • Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium

  • Fundacion Alorda - Derksen, Barcelona

  • Museo del Barrio, New York

  • Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan

  • Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

  • Nerman Museum of Art, Kansas City

  • Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev

  • Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collection, NY

  • Sal. Oppenheim Collection, Cologne

  • Yuz Art Foundation, Shanghai