Rogelio Báez Vega

Rogelio Báez Vega is a multidisciplinary artist who studied visual arts at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas and the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His work critically engages with Puerto Rico’s colonial history, constructed landscapes, and vernacular architecture, weaving in references to Caribbean speculative fiction and contemporary island political culture.

He is the co-founder of Estudio de Grabado Experimental (EGE), a community printmaking workshop dedicated to the creation, experimentation, and study of Puerto Rican printmaking. EGE serves as a space for learning and artistic exchange within the local community of Villa Palmeras, where his studio is currently based.

Báez Vega actively exhibits his work at institutions both locally and internationally and has participated in several artist residencies across the United States.

In 2024, he held his first museum exhibition at the Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar (MADMi); completed a summer residency at the prestigious Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans; and in November, presented a solo exhibition at a gallery in London.

His work forms part of the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Norval Foundation Homestead in South Africa, among others. He has also been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Gottlieb Foundations, Trellis Art Found Stepping Stone, among others.

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