Coralina Meyer

Coralina Rodriguez Meyer NCARB is an Adjunct Professor of Undergraduate Foundations at Pratt Institute. They are a Tinkuy Quipucamayoc educator whose practice spans advocacy, archives, art and architecture. She is the founder of Abra Studio Miami & Brooklyn based design firm (2005), Lambastic arts collective (2004-11) and a current artist in residence at Ankhlave Arts Alliance. Coralina has worked across community organizing as an activist and advocate as a founding boardmember of Retreet America, ¡Solar Libre! and currently Menstrual Market. Coralina is a current guest lecturer at University of Maryland and Thomas Jefferson University.

Spanning 2 decades and 30 countries, Coralina has collaborated with climate and reproductive justice leaders to build civic agency on the front lines of conflicting climate and reproductive justice crisis in America. Coralina founded the Mama Spa Botanica workshop (2007) to restore dignity and divinity to survivors of structural violence in American mythology with full spectrum cultural care. She builds skyscrapers, mentors LGBTQIA+ BIPOC and culturally translates vulnerable archives to transgress the texture and complexion of the American castas system. Their Fall 2024 solo show at Thomas Jefferson University heals institutional fissures across plantation labor systems and their medical manifestations spanning genders, generations and geographies. 

Born in a car in an Everglades swamp, raised Ital & Tinkuy between Homestead FL and the Caribbean, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer is a mixed-race indigenous Andean American Quipucamayoc integrating her matriarchal ancestry into multidisciplinary work. Coralina has designed and built 16 skyscrapers and is a recent NALAC Advocacy Leadership Instiute Fellow and held residencies at Miami Dade College, Bronx AIM program.  Coralina studied painting at MICA and anthropology at Hopkins, holds an Architecture BFA from Parsons and Combined Media MFA from Hunter College. Rodriguez Meyer has exhibited at Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, PAMM, Smithsonian, Kunsthaus Brethanien Berlin, Colonial FL Cultural Heritage Museum, CAC New Orleans and 2024 Southern Biennial. Coralina was a research fellow at Syracuse University Florence examining Italian Fascist architecture and urban design, Universitat der Kunst Berlin  trespassing Nazi utopian infrastructure technology with Hito Steyerl, Museo Machu Picchu Peru and Museo Larco translating Inca Kipus, mummification rituals to urban American iconography. They are a recent scholar in residence at University of Maryland African Fertility Effigy collection and Kislak Americas collection at University of Miami.

Publications

Entanglements: Gender discourses in textile handicrafts, images, techniques Dr Anne Rohl Edition Imorde (German) 2024 Arpilleras Americanas (Cunt Quilt) artist feature

Exhibits Highlight Maternal Themes Past and Present Washington Post Mark Jenkins 2023 solo exhibition review

How Incan Muisca Wisdom Helps Preserve the Lives of BIPOC Women Daniel Larkin Hyperallergic 2021 solo exhibition review

An Artist Seeks Women’s Used Underwear for Sewing into Quilts Sarah Rose Sharp Hyperallergic 2017

On Governor’s Island, Artists Get a Breath of Fresh Air Aaron Short Hyperallergic 2024 artist feature

See Change: The Battle Against Sexual Harrassment in the Art World Nadja Sayej the Guardian 2018 interview

Home Design in an Aging World Dr Jeffrey Rosenfeld & Wid Chapman 2008 Fairchild Press research assistant