Luis Vasquez La Roche was born in Venezuela. In 2002 he migrated to Trinidad and Tobago. He graduated from the University of the West Indies with a B.A. in Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited in Trinidad, Grenada, Bahamas, Venezuela, Colombia, Scotland, Germany, and The Netherlands. In 2013, he co-founded See You on Sunday, an artist collective committed to arts education. He lectures at The University of Trinidad and Tobago and is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University under a Fulbright Scholarship. In response to Rashid Johnson’s “Monument”, he will present Cutlass in Hand, a performance with fruits, flowers, honey for Oshun, and kissing a piece of iron in the name of Ogun.