Rodrigo Barrera, 8 years old and born in Puerto Rico, currently resides in Miami, Florida. Barrera’s stunning acrylic mixed media paintings are typically quite large and influenced by his interactions with people, places and sometimes politics. His recent abstracts often depict faces and emotions. Rodrigo is passionate about educational progress, realizing the limitations of our system when he attended an art school in Florida where a school director told him “abstract painting is dead.” Barrera presented his solo exhibition EVOLUTION at WONDER Art Basel 2018.