Sandy Rodriguez: Book 13

Name: Sandy Rodriguez: Book 13 | The Huntington
Start: Sun, Mar 22 2026 - Mon, Apr 26 2027
Location: The Huntington

Exhibitions

Sandy Rodriguez’s “Book 13,” her largest installation to date, includes a 20-foot-wide map of the United States, plant portraits, a book, and a landscape painting, all created on hand-processed amate-fiber paper. Drawing on a range of colonial Mexican sources in dialogue with 19th-century maps and boundary surveys from The Huntington’s collections, the installation brings together research on place, ecology, and regional histories.

With “Book 13,” Rodriguez considers how histories and borders are marked, erased, and redrawn across this land. She wants visitors to feel the presence of communities who shape this region—the lived stories that unsettle official accounts, affirm resilience, and bring layered truths to the surface.

Rodriguez’s work sparks curiosity about how history is written and how national narratives are constructed and presented. She offers new ways of engaging with important historical collections and landscapes at The Huntington.

Rodriguez is the 2025–26 Hannah and Russel Kelly Distinguished Fellow in American Art at The Huntington. This project grew out of her research residency, with support from Creative Capital Foundation.

About The Artist

Sandy Rodriguez

Sandy Rodriguez is a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher. Her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Her works are in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas; Amon Carter Museum, Texas; The Huntington, California; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; and Mellon Art Collection, New York; and others. She was recently awarded the 2025–2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art, 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship, 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, the 2020 Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency, and the 2021 Creative Capital Award. Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, ArtNews, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and others.