Luis Vasquez de la Roche holds a B.A in Visual Arts from the University of the West Indies and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. They have exhibited work and performed in institutions such as Field Projects in NY, ICOSA in Austin TX, Denison Art Space in OH, Deakin University in Melbourne Australia, La Vulcanizadora in Bogotá Colombia, MCLA Gallery 51 in MA, Fresh Milk in Barbados, Alice Yard, Medulla Art Gallery and Y Art Gallery in Trinidad and Tobago, LACE in Los Angeles CA, AIR gallery in NY and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Richmond VA.
They were selected for OAZO Artist in Residence in The Netherlands in 2013 and Beta Local’s 2016 Itinerant Seminar in Puerto Rico. In 2013, co-founded See You on Sunday, an artist collective committed to arts education. They were the recipient of the Fulbright scholarship in 2018. In November 2021, they will be part of Mar de Islas’s upcoming performance encounter in Puerto Rico. They have taught at Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently a full-time lecturer at the University of Trinidad and Tobago.
See their work currently on display as part of our current exhibition Precarious Performances, inside the Carr Virtual Center Galleries.