Adrian Alejandro Gonzalez American, b. 1987

Adrian Gonzalez speaks and uses the hybrid language of Spanglish — a language spoken commonly in the United States — to reflect cultural interaction that underlies our contemporary moment. He uses the exchange between Spanish and English through playful yet provocative bilingual phrases, expressions, and unstructured ideas of language that are meant to communicate new thinking and describe his work. He associates the combative, improvisatory creation of words with artistic methods in his studio practice to make collage and assemblage paintings, sculptures, and prints from a variety of drawn, printed, painted, sculpted, and found elements.

Adrian Gonzalez, born in California, lived in Ecuador, Puerto Rico, New York, and Florida — each with their own dialects of Spanglish. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis as a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Central Florida and is attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Summer 2022. He has exhibited nationally at Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art and, Orlando Museum of Art. He lives and works in Gainesville, FL.

He collaborated as a Master Printer at Flying Horse Editions for a decade. He has led presentations and taught workshops on his research as a Collaborative Master Printer on contemporary and traditional prints and techniques at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, in New York City, Crown Point Press, in San Francisco, the University of Central Florida, and the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona.