Nestor Rodriguez is a New York City-born painter/photographer whose photography focuses largely on character, culture and faces. Having no formal artistic or photography training, Rodriguez began as an assistant to photojournalist Max Aquillera-Hellweg, photographing everything from celebrities to robotic surgery. After five years of assisting Aguillera-Hellweg, Rodriguez found himself drawn to art photography—the black & white photo—sharply and richly printed. He's been shooting 35mm film for 4 years and printing for the past 3 years. He began painting professionally in 2001.

In 2003 Rodriguez completed an exhibition at The Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim museum, where he showed one of his paintings “The Main Attraction”, as part of James Rosenquist's The Original Originator class. --