Paola Katherine Rodríguez is a Dominican-American artist that examines connection, healing, identity, advocacy, empowerment, and transformation through analogue photography and interdisciplinary and community-based work.

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).

Paola is also the co-creator and facilitator of the monthly photography & community building event #Photowalk305.

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, for 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 sings and performs with Miami Sound Choir, supports the local electronic and alternative music scene, makes photocollages and paintings, advocates for a plant-based and holistic lifestyle, and practices and teaches hatha yoga under her 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher designation.

Paola is based in Miami Beach, for the time being.