Yelaine Rodriguez

Biography

Yelaine Rodriguez (b. 1990) is an Afro-Dominican interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and curator whose practice spans wearable art, sculpture, photography, video installation, and performance. Her work examines Afro-syncretism, ancestral and architectural memory, and connections between Black cultures in the Caribbean and the United States. Rodriguez holds a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design and an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies with a concentration in Museum Studie…