Jayling Drowne Rodríguez is a curator, art historian, and multidisciplinary artist. Her work and scholarship examine how modern and contemporary art engages histories and legacies of colonization, identity politics, and interspecies entanglements with the more-than-human world.

With a foundation in arts nonprofits and cultural institutions, she has over four years of experience spanning curatorial, research, editorial, and educational roles at leading museums such as MASS MoCA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, and the Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte.

As an artist, she explores printmaking, painting, and mixed media techniques to reflect on the body and its poetic landscapes. Her work has been presented in exhibitions including Westside Exposure (Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 2023), Entre formas (Galería Guatíbiri, Río Piedras, PR, 2023; CRiiAS Gallery, UPRRP, 2024), Expresiones Convergentes (La Lineal, San Juan, PR, 2024), and Puerto Rican Women in Arts (El Schomburg, Chicago, IL, 2025; La Liga de Arte, San Juan, PR, 2025).

Drowne Rodríguez is currently a Curatorial Fellow at MASS MoCA and an M.A. candidate in the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute.