BIO
Kay Rodriques is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller working across creative nonfiction, artist’s books, painting, drawing, and printmaking. At the heart of Rodriques’s practice is a curiosity about how memory is made, how histories are constructed, and how contradictions become accepted as truth. Her artist’s books often pair images with irony, while her paintings place figures, landscapes, and fragments of narrative between presence and memory. Rodriques’ practice has been shaped by residencies and programs including Paper Book Intensive at Ox-Bow (Michigan, USA), Casa R.A.R.O. (Barcelona, Spain), Women’s Studio Workshop and UrbanGlass in New York, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. She is currently developing Magnitude, an expanding body of work that explores deportation, migration, belonging, and the lesser-known histories of Jamaica.
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Born in Four Paths, Jamaica, 1961
Resides and works in Danville, California and Bangor, Northern Ireland
ARTIST’S BOOKS & PROJECTS:
2025-present —In Progress:
Magnitude/Unquiet Remains (formerly,
Beyond Morant Bay project)
Bird in a Can -fluxus book
2019-present —Completed Books:
Childhood Homes, I-III (Jamaica)
Crosses (Ireland); Botanic Gardens (Belfast)
Caribbean Blue; Falmouth, Jamaica
A Book of Absurdities (Immigration, Emigration)
Into Cow Pastures We Sailed
My Grandfather is a Lime Tree; A Saltfish Tale
A Comic Opera: Puerto Rico & the Pill
Mexican Yams: Steroids & the Pill
Mushrooms & Banana Slugs
RESIDENCIES/WORKSHOPS:
2026 Boom Studios (Bangor, Northern Ireland)
Self-directed residency, working on a series of large-scale figurative and
semi-abstract oil paintings
2025 Paper Book Intensive at Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, Michigan)
Concentrated workshops in the book arts and printing
2024 Casa R.A.R.O. (Barcelona, Spain)
Self-directed residency
2023 Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY)
Materials workshop: bookbinding and screenprinting
2023 Center for Book Arts (New York, NY)
Textile and Fluxus experimental book creations
2022 San Francisco Center for the Book (California)
Letterpress – cylinder core; risograph
EXHIBITIONS/COLLABORATIONS:
2025 Paper Book Intensive at Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, Michigan)
Open studio
2024 Casa R.A.R.O. (Barcelona, Spain)
Open studios — June & July
2023 Klingspor Museum (Offenbach, Germany)
Book exhibition,“Warning: Contains Life”
ART-RELATED VOLUNTEER WORK:
2015-2022 Djerassi Artists’ Residency (Woodside, CA)
Docent naturalist/guided nature walks docent
2011-2018 Mid-Peninsula Open Space (Bay Area mountains, CA)
Trails and stewardship docent; docent naturalist
MEMBERSHIP:
2026-present Boom Studios (Bangor, Northern Ireland)
2022-present The Book Club of California (San Francisco, CA)
2021-present The Field (New York, NY)