movement birth_place training field birth_date works article_title name
culture jamming fine street santa clara , cuba , jersey city state college urban art , street art , land art 05 february 1966 culture -rrb- ` expectation ' -lrb- 2008 -rrb- jamming -lrb- 1989-1997 -rrb- identity series -lrb- 2002-present jorge rodriguez-gerada
 jorge rodríguez-gerada
jorge rodriguez-gerada

jorge rodríguez-gerada is a cuban-american contemporary artist .
born february 5 , 1966 , cuba , he grew up in the united states .
rodríguez-gerada predominantly creates his work in urban spaces on a large scale .
as a founding member of the early ` 90s new york culture jamming movement first with the group ` artfux ' and later with the ` cicada corps of artists ' , rodríguez-gerada launched interventions upon billboards and public advertising .
by 1997 he was beginning move towards working solo .
in 2002 rodríguez-gerada moved to barcelona and focused on the large-scale ephemeral charcoal drawings of his identity series .
he then developed the terrestrial series ; ephemeral earthworks so expansive as to be visible from space .
other ongoing projects include the identity composite series , and smaller artworks he calls urban analogies , and memorylythics .
since 2009 he has curated the annual avantguard urbano festival ; a small urban art festival with big names , held in tudela , navarre , northern spain .
he also takes part in numerous shows and exhibitions .
