Burgundy Woods is a fine artist and fashion visionary whose work sits at the intersection of high fashion, street culture, and pop surrealism.

With deep, lifelong ties to the art world, Burgundy Woods Rodriguez was born and raised in a Mexican-American neighborhood on the Southside of San Antonio, Texas. Her early career as a dancer gave her an intuitive understanding of movement and rhythm, which naturally evolved into a passion for music. She earned a vocal scholarship to attend college, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music & Music Industries.

This foundation led her to Hollywood, California, where she worked with major record labels including Virgin Records, Interscope Records, EMI Music, and Capitol Records. There, she gained a nuanced understanding of the industry, its brilliance and its contradictions, experiencing firsthand the tension between the beauty of music and the darker realities about the industry behind it.

After achieving notable success, she stepped away from music to pursue a lifelong dream in fashion design. She attended FIDM: The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, earning a degree in Fashion Design & Trend Forecasting. Her expansive fashion career includes work with MySpace during the pioneering era of online fashion, Style Lush TV, and a series of groundbreaking contributions to the Texas fashion industry.

She founded and helped shape initiatives such as TEXAS FASHION AWARDS™ and the Texas Fashion Industry Initiative (501c3), the state’s first nonprofit dedicated to the positive growth of the Texas fashion ecosystem. Through TFII, she also became part of the CFDA Connects Program marking a historic moment for the American fashion industry.

Yet again however, beneath the surface of glamour, she encountered a familiar dissonance: superficiality, global pollution, and the realization that fashion, at its core, often operates as a corporate machine profiting from making human beings feel falsely insecure. This awakening brought her to another emotional crossroads.

Today, Burgundy’s richly layered background spanning Hollywood’s high-gloss intensity and the vibrant cultural roots of San Antonio illuminates her evolution into fine art.

“This seems to be the only place where I can remain in a sacred space of true creativity without compromise, and without the forced nature of industry.”

Now a full-time, multidisciplinary artist of over 20 years, she continues to push boundaries through her fashion brand, BAD JACKET, while creating by hand across a wide range of mediums. Her work draws from her rare fusion of music and fashion industry experience, infused with a distinct thread of ’80s nostalgia. From upcycled clothing, furniture, and lifestyle objects to murals, unexpected sculptural pieces like muppets, and ultramodern digital art, her creations defy categorization.

Simply put, her art cannot be contained.