Mariana Rockwell (b. 1993) is a visual artist from Chicago, IL. She received her BFA in 2015 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been producing primarily works on paper, oil paintings, and sculpture. Marianas work is an exploration of the relationship between the phenomenology of ‘place’ and the subconscious. American regionalism and ‘Homestead’ paintings as well as the over-romanitization and emptiness of the United States heavily inform her image making. This body of work means to find the sacred in the mundane, explore and examine “darkness” as well as investigate how we come to assign ‘Value’ and‘Preciousness’ in the places we exist in, both externally and internally.

Mariana lives and works in Chicago, IL.

EDUCATION 

2015, BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2024 (Upcoming) ““GODS COUNTRY””, South Halsted Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2023 Radical Joy (No Joy Ive Seen), Coprosperity Sphere, Chicago, Illinois

2022 Draw Showing, {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, Chicago, Illinois 

2021 Heavy Handed (Solo Exhibition), {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, Chicago, Illinois

2019 Upstairs, Innertown Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 

2019 Womanx, Bite Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 

2018 Sensitive Gals, The Empty Bottle, Chicago, Illinois 

2018 Brothers and Sisters, {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab, Chicago, Illinois 

2018 Mountains, Lakes, Places I Feel Safe, Archer Beach Haus, Chicago, Illinois

2017 Two Birds, One Stone; PT II, Archer Beach Haus, Chicago, Illinois 

2017 One Like = One Prayer, Ohio House Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 

RESIDENCIES 

2024 Rondo Residency, Cuidad de Mexico, MX

2023 AiR Fall Program, Kimball Arts Center, Chicago Illinois

2021 {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab Winter Residency, Chicago, Illinois 

2018 {\}() {\}@+!(){\} Art Lab Summer Residency, Chicago, Illinois