Rolando Peña | |
Birth Date: | 27 October 1942 |
Birth Place: | Caracas, Venezuela |
Nationality: | Venezuelan-American |
Awards: | a Guggenheim Fellowship during 2009 |
Field: | visual artist and dancer, one of the Warhol superstars, participated in a number of Warhol films |
Rolando Peña (born October 27, 1942, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan-American visual artist and dancer. He is best known as one of the Warhol superstars, and he participated in a number of Warhol films.[1]
Among Warhol superstars, Peña is known as "the Black Prince", or "El Principe Negro".
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship during 2009.[2]
Peña's early work on photomaton photography, was recently show at an exhibition in Miami, Florida.[3]