KENNY RIVERO
Kenny Rivero earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2006 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2012. Rivero has been a guest lecturer at El Museo del Barrio, Bennington College, Middlebury College, Williams College, and the School of Visual Arts.
He is the recipient of a Doonesbury Award, Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travel Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, and has been awarded a Visiting Scholar position at New York University.
Recent projects and exhibitions include those at Pera Museum, Turkey; Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands; The Contemporary Art Museum St Louis; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; and the Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington. Residencies include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, The Fountainhead Residency, The Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, and The Macedonia Institute.
Rivero is a teaching Artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Lecturer at the Yale School of Art and taught at Cooper Union.
Works are included in collections of the Perez Art Museum, Miami and El Museo del Barrio, NYC.
Set of Four Etchings with Chine Collé, 2019
OIL MONOTYPES
Blast for Me, 2017
2017 EDITION
Cube 2017, Lithography with Chine Collé, 15 x 21 in., Edition of 20
