Rocío Rodríguez received both a BFA and a MFA from the University of Georgia. Rodríguez has been the recipient of several fellowships among them the Southern Arts Federation/ National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship both in painting and drawing, the Southern Regional Artist Fellowship Award at the American Academy in Rome, and the Cintas Foundation. Rodríguez has exhibited her work at numerous museums and galleries including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; the Birmingham Art Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta, the Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta, the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinatti, OH; and Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC. Her work is represented in museum collections including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and MOCA GA. Corporate collections include King & Spalding, LLP;  Alston & Bird, LLP; Troutman and Sanders; the Hyatt Hotel International in Paris, France; and Chase Manhattan Bank in Dayton, OH. Rodríguez most recently creating a site-specific charcoal drawing on the wall drawing installation in the MOCA GA Education/Resource Center.