Paola Katherine Rodríguez is a Dominican-American artist that examines the ideas of identity, healing, advocacy, mindfulness, connection, empowerment, and transformation through her practice.

Paola has worked on two series:

Broken Free aims to promote awareness of victimization, while encouraging survivors to break the silence in order to end the violence.

In Transit documents the interaction between public transportation users and their spaces / environment, with emphasis on their sense of awareness—or lack thereof.​

and is currently working on:

Nonón (Spark of my Life) – a mixed-media memoir of life partner, music producer and writer Juan Alexander Caraballo (1979-2021).

I Am NOT My A$$ –  a photo + video based series that questions, challenges, and aims to deconstruct the male gaze + hypermasculinity in society, particularly in the modern dating culture.

Paola has exhibited work at Newspace Center for Photography, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Girls’ Club Collection, FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios, FIU Graham Center Art Gallery, and has been a part of group shows such as 9 Topics TRIAD at Arthill Gallery in London, UK and The Fifth Annual Exposure Award at Musée du Louvre in Paris, France. Her project, Broken Free, was a finalist for FEAST Miami. She was a featured artist at the Take Back the Night program at FIU for two consecutive years. Paola was awarded a scholarship at the 2014 FIU Thesis I Fall Review, with her series Broken Free.

Paola has been interviewed and featured on Artistíco RD, VoyageMIA, WokeWednesdays, She Shoots Film magazine and FIU CARTA News.

Paola received a BA and a BFA from Florida International University in 2014 and 2015, respectively. 

In her spare time, or in between projects, she hosts #Photowalk305, cooks plant-based food, sings and performs with Miami Sound Choir, makes photocollages and paintings, and practices and teaches hatha yoga under her 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher designation.

Paola is based in Miami, for the time being.