This is my new bio.

Hi. I’m Norberto Rodriguez. I’m an artist (maybe). I really love helping people think + feel things by sharing my ideas in whatever form / medium I can. I think art does that the best but, I might be wrong. When I was little, I learned I could make my friends + classmates laugh, so I did anything to make it happen. Then I discovered that I could play any instrument you put in front of me so, I became a musician but after about 8 years I quit (sort of). Just before graduating high school, I met Marion Hanks. She introduced me to a level of thinking + feeling I never knew was even possible. Since then I’ve performed + made art for museums, galleries + corporations all over the world (ish).

In 1995, I married a total stranger off the street for a year as a project for my college painting class. In 2000, I did my first public show, a pre-career retrospective of all my childhood objects + drawings. In 2008, I performed therapy for the Whitney Museum + was planted like a tree for a day at the entrance to the Bass (also a museum). I did a bunch of really amazing shows, projects, exhibitions along the way + then I quit (sort of II). In 2015, I opened up my own home to the public as a museum in LA which hosted regular hours + a #NightsAtTheMuseum program through Airbnb. It had a gift shop (shelf), a cafe (toaster oven) + we collaborated with Ebay to auction items from the museum’s collection. Then I died (sort of…