1962, Sancti Spiritus, Villa Clara

He completed his studies in Arts in 1983 at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana. He was part of the René Portocarrero workshop, where he began to make a name for himself in screen printing, drawing and painting.

In Rodríguez Cárdenas' work, parody, humor, and caricature tend to move away from crudeness, although they can confront the public with the vulgar in a society in crisis.

More than anyone, he suffered censorship. Since he went into exile in Mexico in the early 1990s until he finally settled in New York, he focused his art, without renouncing his previous commitments, on the artistic quality of his subjects, of these designs. His art imparted to his compositions even more of its own particular and distinctive character than before.

His work is in important collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (USA), the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (USA), the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art (USA), Ludwing Museum (Germany). ), among other…

Lives and works in New York.