Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio seeks to expand viewers’ understanding of identity and place-making by forging material connections between pre-Hispanic Central American cultures and contemporary Los Angeles, often through innovative large-scale sculptural creations. Aparicio earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College in 2012 and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2016. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles (2023); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2020); The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2018); and Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico (2019). His awards include the Nancy Graves Foundation Award (2022); the California Community Foundation (CCF) Fellowship for Visual Artists (2016); the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2014); and the Elizabeth Murray and Sol LeWitt Studio Arts Award from Bard College (2012).