San Antonio, Texas

Miguel
Rodriguez

MFA — Designer & Artist

I build exhibitions, visual systems, and campaigns for cultural institutions and the communities they represent.

Miguel Rodriguez, San Antonio exhibition designer and artist, at the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City
San Antonio · Texas · 78207

Selected Work

Artistas de las Americas performance dresses — Museo del Westside exhibition, San Antonio TX

Exhibition Design · Visual Identity · Interpretive Narrative

Museo del Westside
Inaugural Opening

Lead exhibition designer for the first museum on San Antonio's historically Chicano Westside — full visual identity, interpretive timeline, and graphic installation.

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Zenith of Zeigarnik neon flame installation at San Antonio Public Library by Miguel Rodriguez

AR Installation · New Media · San Antonio Public Library

Zenith of Zeigarnik

San Antonio's first augmented reality exhibition — exploring personal and geographic memory through 3D modeling, sculpting, and volumetric photogrammetry across four screens.

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Design rooted in
place and people.

I'm a San Antonio-based designer and artist with an MFA in New Media from UTSA and over a decade of work at the intersection of exhibition design, visual systems, and community-centered storytelling.

My practice moves between physical and digital — designing environments that carry narrative weight, building identity systems that feel honest, and creating campaigns rooted in the cultural contexts they serve.

My work is shaped by San Antonio's Westside, where much of my most meaningful work has taken place.

Work Together

Education

MFA, New Media — UTSA2022
BA, Studio Art — Trinity University2016
Burren College of Art, Ireland2015

Recognition

MAP Fund Micrograntee2023
Mexic-Arte AmArte Teaching Grant2023
Luminaria Arts Festival Grant2016
IFSA Ireland Digital Storytelling, 1st Place2016

Selected Exhibitions & Panels

NALAC National Latinx Summit2022
McNay Art Museum Artist Committee2018
Austin Design Week2016
"I really just wanted to present something to the west side community that is Smithsonian-quality."
Miguel Rodriguez — KENS 5

Let's build
something together.

Exhibition design, visual systems, campaigns, websites.
Based in San Antonio — working everywhere.

miguel@wrpc.xyz
@miguel.the.artist