Adrian Gonzalez
Semifinalist

Adrian Gonzalez (born 1987, San Bernardino, CA; lives Gainesville, FL) received an MFA from Washington University, St Louis, MO. He has exhibited at the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN; Orlando Museum of Art, FL; and the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis, among others. In 2022, he was awarded a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Print Media at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is represented by Bruno David Gallery.

Statement from the Artist:
Adrian Gonzalez explores American culture around reproductions and knockoffs through his lens of American and Latin histories. His viewpoints are explored through contemporary languages of printmaking, collage, assemblage, painting and sculpture. Raised in an Ecuadorian and Puerto Rican household in Florida, he references these issues of contemporary interactions through the improvisational blending of two languages in Spanglish, cultural depictions on the internet and television – through familiar mistranslations and misappropriations of tradition, Saturday morning cartoons, magic and superstition.

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