Arturo Rivera

Arturo Rivera was born in Mexico City in 1945. He studied painting at the Real Academia de San Carlos (1963-1968) and serigraphy and photo-serigraphy in The City Lit Art School in London (1973-1974).

He lived eight years in New York City, where in order to make a living, he worked as: mason, cook assistant, and worker at a painting factory. In 1979, Mac Zimmerman, a painter, saw some of his Works at the Latinamerican Institute in Madison Street. After that, he looked for him and invited him to work as his assistant at the Kundstakademie of Munich, Germany. After a year of intensive work and study, he comes back to Mexico invited by Fernando Gamboa to exhibit for the first time in Mexico’s Museum of Modern Art (MAM).

Since then, he has taken part in many collective exhibitions in: New York, Puerto Rico, Munich, Medellin, Rome, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, London, Poland, and other Nordic countries.

He has exhibited in individual exhibitions in: Chicago, New York, and Mexico. Here, in Mexico, his works have been exhibited in two occasions in the Museum of Modern Art, as well as in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO), and in the Museum of Fine Arts.

His works can be found in: the Gathering Museum of Cali, Colombia; Central Bank of Quito; Mexico’s Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey; Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C.; the Haus der Kunst in Munich; and in the Puerto Rican Culture Institute; apart from being present in important private collections, mainly in Mexico, the United States, Switzerland, and Finland.

At present, he lives and works in Mexico City.

 

“La Manzana” Oil on canvas 2006