Armando Rosales-Rivero

Armando Rosales, born in Cabimas, Venezuela in 1987, sculptor and percussionist, has called Mexico City home since 2015. He graduated in Graphic Design from the University of Zulia in 2010 and completed the Soma program in Mexico City in 2016, followed by the Art&Law program hosted by Sergio Muños Sarmiento at AAP Cornell in NYC in 2019. As a co-founder of the Contemporary Art Space Al Borde (2010-2014), the organization was honored with a grant from the Fundación Cisneros/CPPC in 2012. Armando's artistic journey has garnered accolades, including a 2017 grant for a curatorial project from the Patronato de Arte contemporáneo (PAC) in Mexico City and the recognition of an emerging artist by the International Association of Critics of Art (AICA) in 2011, among others. His works are part of several collections as The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection , and private collections spanning Venezuela, France, the United States, Spain, and Mexico. Recent exhibitions have included "Masa de Avance" at Nasal in Mexico City and "I Wouldn't Be Here Without You" at Westwerk in Hamburg, following his research at the Tierpark Hagenbeck Zoo and the MARKK Museum. Additionally, he participated in the group show "Cabilla," curated by Sol Calero at TEA Museum in Tenerife.