Rocio G Montiel ("RGM"), is a Mexican artist living and working in Los Angeles, California.
She is passionate about creating artwork and her art translates stories, feelings, and
emotions into compositions. The compositions are produced with design elements of
multiple patterns, organic movement, texture, and attention to fine detail.
Rocio is a multimedia artist and works in the following media which are: acrylic
paints, pencil, charcoal, and ink.
She also experiments with new techniques, styles, and digital technology therefore, her
visual language grows as her art practice evolves making her portfolio diverse and
unique.
Rocio has a Diploma in Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design. Her art has been
selected for more than 50 juried physical and online exhibitions in the United States
(Arizona, California, and New York) and internationally in London, Berlin, Greece, and Japan;
she had a solo show at the Mexican Center of Culture and Cinematics. She was Chief Curator
of Culturally Arts Collective in 2022. Her work has also been part of major publications such
as Artist Talk Magazine, Altiba Collectors Art Book, Insight Magazine, Robert Allen Design,
Artists Closeup, Bold Journey Magazine, and many more. She was selected as the Grand Prize
Winner of the New York International Fine Arts Competition in 2021 and she was a Panelist
at the First Binational Meeting of Women in Visual Arts in Baja California, Mexico. She has
been a Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) member since August 2020.
She's currently a painting instructor with DTLA Art Nights.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“My art explores shapes and forms that represent feelings and life experiences. I seek to give a sort of structure to the continuous emotions through geometric abstract work and color. It’s fascinating how you can create nonrealistic and impossible spaces using shapes and, how color plays a fundamental part in the narrative of each piece. Colors and color combinations can exert unexpectedly profound emotional effects.”