Biography

Adrian Gonzalez is an artist exploring reproductions and knockoffs through a lens of American and Latin culture and histories. Research in these perspectives fuels his exploration of contemporary culture through languages of printmaking, painting, and sculpture. He has exhibited his work at The Print Center (Philadelphia), Highpoint Center for Printmaking, The Harn Museum of Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art, and Bruno David Gallery and has attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and PS Marlowe. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis as a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow and a BFA from the University of Central Florida.

He collaborated as a Master Printer at Flying Horse Editions for almost a decade, where it was his growing responsibility to provide complex technical expertise and individual creative support to widely exhibited artists such as Chie Fueki, Chakaia Booker, James Siena, Alex Dodge, Josephine Halvorson, Jiha Moon, Mark Thomas Gibson, Luis Gispert, Toyin Oijh Odutola, Mark Fox, Holly Coulis, Diana Al-Hadid, and Eddie Martinez while managing the printmaking studio, print production, and teaching students an expanded approach to print while they were hands-on with artists projects.

He has led presentations and taught workshops on his research as a Collaborative Master Printer on many 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.