Join DV’s Co-Director, Leyden Rodríguez Casanova, in conversation discussing Tomorrow’s Nomadic, Collaborative, and Experimental Gallery Model at Future Fair, NYC on May 15th at 12:30 pm.
As rising costs and shifting audiences reshape the art market, a new generation of gallery founders is rethinking what a gallery can be; nomadic, collaborative, and experimental models are challenging traditional ways of working.
Leyden Rodríguez Casanova
Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova (b. 1973 in Havana, Cuba) is an artist, curator, and co-founding director of Dimensions Variable (DV), based between Miami and Lyndhurst. He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, and the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
Rodríguez-Casanova has received several prestigious awards, including the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, two South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships, the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Visiting Artist Award at FIU, Capri Palace and Villa Lena Fellowships in Italy, and the Ville de Paris-Culturesfrance Award in Paris. He has also been nominated for the Joan Mitchell and United States Artists Fellowships. His projects have garnered support from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Miami-Dade County, and the State of Florida. He has been recognized multiple times as a Knight Foundation award winner, honored as a Knight Arts Champion, and received multiple Ellies Creator Awards.
His work has been exhibited widely, including the Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Abrons Arts Center, Anina Nosie Gallery, NADA Foreland, and White Box, all in New York. Internationally, his work has been shown at the Museo de Bellas Artes and Factoria Habana in Havana, Cuba; ZONA MACO Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, Mexico; Capri Palace and Villa Lena in Italy; and Prosjektrom Normanns in Stavanger, Norway. Additionally, he has exhibited at Shoshanna Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, Casa Riegner in Bogotá, Colombia, NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, as well as several renowned galleries and institutions in Miami, such as PAMM, Frost Museum FIU, The Bass, MOCA, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, David Castillo Gallery, Emerson Dorsch, Locust Projects, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Untitled Art, and Dimensions Variable.
Rodríguez-Casanova has curated projects at Open Source in New York, and at David Castillo, Emerson Dorsch, ArtCenter South Florida (Oolite Arts), DV, and Box in Miami.
His work is included in various public and private collections, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Frost Museum of Art, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Collection, the Cintas Foundation, the Sayago Collection, Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, the Tonino Cacace Collection, , the Villa Lena Foundation, The Bass, Mikesell Collection, Catalina Casas Collection, Steven Lanster Collection, Arturo Mosquera Collection, Teresa Enriquez and Michael Galex Collection.
His projects have been featured in several notable publications, including The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Art Nexus, Arte al Dia, Artforum, Artsy, Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Miami Rail, and Miami Magazine. His work has appeared in select publications, including “Fortunate Objects”, published by CIFO and Edizioni Chart in Milan, and “Remains-Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction”, published by the Sayago Collection and Hatje Cantz in Berlin.
Since co-founding DV in 2009, he has organized and curated hundreds of exhibitions featuring emerging artists from local, regional, and international communities. Before co-founding DV, he was a co-founder of Box, a contemporary art project space from 1996 to 2003, where he curated many projects.
