Rodrigo Mateo, Pears on a Table

Rodrigo Mateo (b. 1984) is originally from Buenos Aires Argentina and emigrated to the United States in 1998 where he received a B.A. in photography at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He graduated from Grand Central Atelier four year training program in 2012 under Jacob Collins and then continued private studies with Michael Klein in New York and Paul Ingbretson in New Hampshire.
Rodrigo exhibits regularly at Collins Galleries in Orleans, Ma and the Salmagundi Club of New York. His work has also been exhibited at Still Point Arts Gallery, The New Salem Museum of Art and Robert Simon Fine Arts in New York City.
Awards and honors include three years at the Hudson River School Fellowship for Landscape; La Napoule Art Foundation scholarship in France, Decorative commissions for the C.S. Lewis Institute in Ohio and the Portrait Society of America Certificate of Excellence.

Rodrigo is a painting instructor at Grand Central Atelier concentrating on the copying of old masters, still life and figure painting. He is also an instructor in Juliette Aristides online Classical Atelier Program. He currently resides in Queens, New York.