Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1989, Rafael Domenech lives and works between New York and Miami.
Rafael Domenech conceives objects colliding in space, organizing a sequence of artworks with physical or theoretical connections into a larger system, especially their own fabrication. His work explores how the artwork itself is part of an ecosystem of practices outside the studio into the institution and world beyond art and is a story of human relationships before aesthetic considerations. Situated at the forefront of artists who are redefining the exhibition experience, Rafael Domenech creates architectural interventions which intersect publishing methodologies such as cutting, redacting, revising, and circulation as research tactics to amplify his interest in the exhibition model as an active machine for production rather than a repository space.
His work has been exhibited in France at the Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brest (2022), as well as in numerous international institutions such as the Bass Museum (Miami), Sculpture Center (New York), Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), ASE Foundation (Shanghai), Asia Society Texas (Houston), ICA VCU Museum (Richmond), the Phillip and Patricia Frost Art Museum (Miami), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), and the Artium Museum (Vitoria). He has been a recipient of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and the Cintas Foundation, among others. Domenech is a graduate of Columbia University.
