Didi Rojas
Felt Cute, Might Delete Later
May 7 – June 11, 2022
You're Doing Amazing Sweetie, LAUNCH F18, New York.
September 7 - October 19, 2019
You're Doing Amazing Sweetie, LAUNCH F18, New York.
September 7 - October 19, 2019
Didi Rojas
It’s 2019, 2019
Ceramic
8 x 10.5 x 4 in
Didi Rojas
Weird flex but same flex, 2019
Ceramic
12 x 10.5 x 4 in
Didi Rojas. Had to do it to them. 2020. Ceramic, 10 x 4 x 3 in.
Installation view from The Planter Show, Fort Makers, New York
Didi Rojas
Pat your head, rub your tummy AND check your phone, 2019
Ceramic
4 x 9 x 4 in
Didi Rojas
Suddenly I’m parched, 2018
Ceramic
10 x 8.5 x 3 in
Didi Rojas
When life gives you strawberries, Gucci strawberries, 2019
Ceramic
4 x 10 x 3.5 in
You're Doing Amazing Sweetie, LAUNCH F18, New York.
September 7 - October 19, 2019
You're Doing Amazing Sweetie, LAUNCH F18, New York.
September 7 - October 19, 2019
Didi Rojas
Chorus of I Want You Back by *NSYNC plays in background, 2019
Ceramic
5.5 x 10 x 4 in
Didi Rojas
Listens to Migos once, 2018
Ceramic
8.5 x 8.5 x 3 in
Didi Rojas
I know, you know, I know, 2019
Ceramic
5 x 10.5 x 4 in
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
Pratt Institute: BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Tell Me You Like Things Without Telling Me You Like Things, LAUNCH F18,
Online Viewing Room
2020 Future Fair Holiday Market, Future Fair Online, New York, NY
2019 You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie, LAUNCH F18, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2021 Buscando Recuerdos, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
Balloons Dropping From a Ceiling Fan, cureated by Morgan Blaire, Left Field
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LAUNCH F18: 10 Years, LAUNCH F18, Online Viewing Room
2020 The Planter Show, Fort Makers, New York, NY
Red Shoes, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY
Crescendo, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Infinite_Now, LAUNCH F18, New York, NY
2019 We Buy Gold, Good To Know, Miami, FL
Daisies, 323 Canal, New York, NY
Nicole Saldaña x Depop, Depop Space, New York, NY
2018 Will the heat ever end?, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX
Glazed and Confused, Permanent Maintenance: Plank Road Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Nothing In Isolation, Pablo's Birthday, New York, NY
Open/Ended Identity, Steuben Galley, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Good Taste, 393 Broadway, New York, NY
Melted City 4, Yui Gallery, New York, NY
The Ashtray Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Maiden Form, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Ready? Okay!, Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University in Belfast, UK
Clay Today, The Hole, New York, NY
Office Magazine, Spring/Summer Issue 08 Launch, New York, NY
The Fan Show, The Glove, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Life is a Joke Death is the Punchline, Sandra's Apartment, New York, NY
Neighbors, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Glazed and Confused, Permanent Maintenance, Brooklyn, NY
Melted City 4– IBS Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
The Great Outdoors, Gowanus Print Lab, Brooklyn, NY
In Search of Us – MoMA PopRally, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
If I Say So, The Dusty Rose, Brooklyn, NY
Melted City 4, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Solita, SAD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 A League of Their Own, Masthead Print Studio, Philadelphia, PA
A League of Their Own, SAD Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Didi Rojas was born in 1993 in Cali, Colombia. She graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Previous group exhibitions include “In Search of Us,” MoMA PopRally, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2017); “Nothing In Isolation,” Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY (2018); “Melted City 4,” Yui Gallery, New York, NY (2018); “The Ashtray Show,” Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018); “Maiden Form,” Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (2018), “Read? Okay!,” Naughton Gallery at Queens University in Belfast, UK (2018) and “Clay Today,” The Hole, New York, NY (2018). Didi's debut solo exhibition, "You're Doing Amazing Sweetie" opened at the gallery's Tribeca location in September 2019. Didi lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Website
In many ways, Rojas' stylish sculptures were born out of her talent for looking closely. After constantly wearing her pair of Nike Air Force 1s, Rojas noticed that the shoes appeared as though they were made out of clay.
On the occasion of her follow up solo exhibition to You're Doing Amazing Sweetie, Christin Graham details the evolution within Rojas' latest work. Sharing perspectives and unique insight, Graham explores the remarkable depth to Rojas' newest exhibition Felt Cute, Might Delete Later.
Not long after Diana “Didi” Rojas began working at a ceramics studio in New York, she noticed her sneakers had become encrusted in clay.
Born in Cali, Columbia and encouraged by her architect father and artistic grandmother Didi’s childhood was creative and she went on to study fine art at the Pratt Institute in New York.
The collector and the digital strategist discuss the role of technology, art in childhood and Shen’s social media project, #CarlasCamo
Carla Shen might be known best for her delightful Instagram account. Since 2016, she’s been posting photos of herself at gallery and museum shows wearing cleverly curated outfits that match the works on view.
Colombia-born, Brooklyn-based artist Diana ‘Didi’ Rojas wants us to think more critically about why we buy what we buy: “Do we make purchases because we truly connect with an $800 pair of sneakers or is it solely for others to see?”
The New York subway is a fashion runway. People from all walks of life show off their personalities, mostly through their all-black ensembles and sneakers. Artist Didi Rojas started paying attention to these outfits, especially the footwear, around 2016, when the hype of Air Force 1s, Converses and Stan Smiths started building up in New York City.
One of the most delightful discoveries of the fall season in New York was the debut solo exhibition of Columbian ceramicist Didi Rojas at the fantastic shoebox of a space, Launch F18. You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie, featured a selection of around two dozen of Rojas’ quickly-becoming-iconic ceramic reproductions of shoes.
From re-creating the Jacquemus Le Chiquito Bag (including one that’s even tinier than the original!) to sculpting everyone’s favorite Glossier products in clay, Brooklyn-based ceramic artist Didi Rojas is making art out of the most-coveted fashion and beauty items.
You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie features a curation of over 20 ceramic sculpture shoes, presented in an iconic and sculptural form. Similar to Didi’s previous bodies of work, this exhibition focuses on the delicacy and detail within her sculptures, and reveals a broader cultural context.
Consisting of medium scale sculptures in clay, Didi Roja’s new solo show visually addresses her fascination for footwear. The young artist’s perspective lies on the contemporary functions of shoes that envisage multiple aesthetic and symbolic functions.
“You’re doing amazing sweetie!” said notorious momager Kris Jenner to her most famous little dividend, Kim Kardashian, during her daughter’s 2007 photo shoot for Playboy. Kris’s croon serves as the title for Didi Rojas’s first solo show in New York, which features forty-two single shoes (right foot only!) on a low pedestal in the center of the petite gallery.
Featured in their online journal, ABSTRACT Mag includes You're Doing Amazing Sweetie by Didi Rojas. The feature profiles a selection of installation images from the exhibition and takes an indepth look at the over 40 works Rojas made for the exhibition.
Didi Rojas’ boots are not made for walking. Neither are her sneakers, flip flops, or her Balenciaga crocs, which landed office magazine's Issue 08 cover. In fact, all of her LAUNCH F18 gallery solo exhibition creations are strictly ceramic. The Brooklyn based artist’s show titled You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie will be open through October 19 with selections of Rojas' famous footwear sculptures.
It’s hard to not be beguiled by an art show entitled You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie — now on view at LAUNCH F18 F18 until October 19th — and it’s even harder to not fall in love with the whimsical, colorful ceramic shoes created by Didi Rojas for the show.
Colombian-born Pratt graduate Didi Rojas is making her solo debut with a curated collection of over 20 ceramic shoes: heels, flats, sneakers, the works. These zany sculptural confections locate style as both identity and form, nodding at pop progenitors like Koons and Warhol without the slick material distancing.
Shoes fascinate Brooklyn-based ceramic artist Diana Rojas. First using ceramics in college, she soon began to casting her favorite sneakers, heels, and boots using clay, making some life-size and some gigantic.
New York-based artist Didi Rojas aka 0h_heck is known for creating standalone sculptures of objects found within popular culture and fashion. The artist created a ceramic work entitled This could be us… (2019) that hijacks the likeness of a Converse Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker.
