Germán Rojas, born 1995, was raised Mexico City, Mexico. He received his BA in Economics and Business from Sewanee – The University of the South in 2018. After initially exploring roles in marketing strategy, software engineering and technology, he returned to his art practice during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Rojas currently resides and works in Nashville, Tennessee, where he maintains a fine arts practice in addition to doing commercial design work, art preparation work, and painting murals.

Germán Rojas finds his personal voice through an alchemic mixture of vast influences, including works by Rivera, Clemente-Orozco, and Saturnino Herrán, who all told powerful stories with the language of paint and the human form. World mythology, philosophy, Southern gothic literature, colorful art traditions of his home country of Mexico, and Flemish painting techniques make up other ingredients of Rojas’s visual narratives. He has a keen talent for capturing mysterious scenes full of emotive connections to viewers. His practice is a conduit honoring the painting traditions of the past while also creating dialogues about human vulnerability, the role of the painter in contemporary America, and the “other-ness” of the immigrant experience.