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 José Rodeiro is a former-Professor of Art and Art History New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ); a Visual Artist's Fellow in Painting of the National Endowment for the Arts; a Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute for International Education and a Cintas Fellow in painting. He received his M.F.A from Pratt Institute, NY and his Ph.D. from Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts. He has lived and worked in Spain, Central America, and Latin America. He has received major public art (mural) commissions from Tampa Arts Council, Tampa, FL, and Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD.  Rodeiro is a former professor (retired) Art Department, New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ).  His exhibitions include the Miami-Dade Museum of Art & Design, Miami, Florida; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland; Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ; Kenkelaba Gallery (New York State Arts Council) NYC, NY; Florida International Museum (Miami, FL), The Korea Gallery (NYC, NY), Newark Museum; NJPAC; UMDNJ’s Robert Wood Johnson Gallery; Perth Amboy Gallery (Center for the Arts); La Ruche Art Consortium; PCCC Broadway/LRC Gallery (Paterson, NJ), Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery (College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ), Qbava Gallery (Union City, NJ) and other venues. In October 2009, Rodeiro lectured on his painting 9/11 at The Tribute WTC Visitor Center (at Ground Zero, New York City, NY).