Francisco Rodríguez: Private Nightmares

Opening Reception

Saturday February 21, 2026

6 to 8 PM

Private Nightmares invites viewers into suspended moments where memory, adolescence, and interiority unfold slowly, countering a contemporary culture that insists on speed over reflection. In Rodríguez’s hands, painting holds the fragile emotional register of past lives, contemporary chaos, and the soft promise of connection threaded through both.

Francisco Rodríguez was born in 1989 in Santiago, Chile and lives and works in London. He studied BFA Painting at Universidad de Chile, Santiago and graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Arts in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Distant Star, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China (2025); The Weight of the Night, Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2023); The City and The Dogs, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China (2022); The Silence that Lives in Houses, Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2022); In The Night We Believe, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK (2020); Cuaderno Canario, Galeria Leyendecker, Madrid, Spain (2020); Midday Demon, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2019); The Burning Plain, Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2018); Utopías y Desvelos, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Reconstructing Horizons, Shijiazhuang Art Museum & Academy, Shijiazhuang, China (2024); X Collection 202: Portrait of a Man, X Museum, Beijing, China (2024); Familiar Strangers, Coma Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2023); ‘Nay, her foot speaks’, Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2023); Narrative Minds, Asia Art Center, Taipei, China (2022); La buena pintura, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (2022); A Higher Calling, WHITE SPACE, Beijing, China (2021); The Drawing Biennial 2021, The Drawing Room, London, UK (2021); Gran Sur, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain (2020); Wolves by the Road, Assembly House, Leeds, UK (2019); Colectiva 92, Galería AFA, Santiago, Chile (2019); FBA Futures 2019, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2019); Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, South London Gallery, London, UK (2018). Rodriguez’s works are included in several public and private collections, including the DLA Art Collection, V&A Museum, London, Colección Fundación Engel, Chile and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Chile.

More information forthcoming.