Miguel Rivera
US-Mexico
lives and works in Kansas City
mi.miguelangel@gmail.com
www.miguelriveraart.com
instagram @grabador12
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2022, Miguel Rivera, NicholsAtlanta Gallery, Atlanta GA
2019, Geo/Matrix, Studios Inc. Kansas City, MO
2019 Davidson Gallery, Seattle WA.
2016 University of Colorado at Boulder, New works
2014 Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Day of the Dead installation featuring Miguel Rivera, Kansas City, MO
2011 Dialogue Between Cities Proyecto ‘ACE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Ritual: New Works on Paper by Miguel Rivera and Soad A. Kader, Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2009 Prints by Miguel Rivera”, Mexican Cosulate, Kansas City, MO, Works on Paper”, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO.
2008 Large Format Drawings, Museo del Pueblo, Guanajuato, Mexico.
2000 Cyclic Prayers Querétaro Art Museum, Queretaro Mexico
2000 Episcopales Monotypes and Monoprints, Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato, Mexico
1999 Cyclic Prayers Polivalente Gallery, University of Guanajuato, Mexico
Duo and Trio Shows
2018 Drawn and Etched, Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO.
2017 Vortex trinity, Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
2016 “TRIADA - Estampas Híbridas” - Galería Café des Artistes, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2007 Miguel Rivera and Cara Jaye Collaboration Part 1, Crossover/Cruce de Vias, Shift Studio, Seattle, WA
2007 Miguel Rivera and Cara Jaye Collaboration Part 2, Crossover/Cruce de Vias, Gallardo Gallery, Gto, Flying 2006 Miguel Rivera-Prints, Diego Rivera Museum, Guanajuato, Gto. Mexico
2003 Prints by Miguel Rivera, Blanche Gallery, Osaka Japan with Hiyasuki Nomura and Riochi Monobe
Selected Collaborative and Group Exhibitions
2023 Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, KC Art Now
2023 BAAR Art Journey selected artists exhibition, Unapologetic: The Berlin Files
Habitat Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS
Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
InterUrban Art House, Overland Park, KS
2023 Douro Biennial Exhibit, Peso do Regua, Portugal
2023 Las Mil y Una Estampas, Campeche, Mexico.
2022, Five Years and Counting, selection from recent acquisitions from the permanent collection. Kemper Museum of American Art, Kansas City, MO
2022, The World in a Handkerchief, IMPACT exhibit, organized by Cecilia Mandrile, Bristol UK.
2022, 5th Global Print 2022 Exhibition, Alijo Library, Alijo, Portugal
2022 First International Digital Printmaking Exhibition, Changsha University, Hunan, China.
2022, The World in a Handkerchief, Proyecto ACE and Zona Imaginaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2021 Sept. Featured Artist, Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
2021 Migration Stories, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, NY
2021 In Between, Lowell Arts, Lowell, MI
2021 Digital Agora 2021 III, Magyar Elektrográfiai Társaság, Budapest, Hungary
2021 1st. International Digital Print Art Exhibition, Changsha Normal University, Hunan, China
2021 New Members Exhibit, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
2020 Gifts of Art: 2019 Acquisitions, Kemper Museum of American Art. KC, MO.
2020 In BEtween Constellation Studios, Lincoln NE
2020 70th A-ONE exhibition, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan CT
2020 In BEtween/Crossroads KC, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
2020 YOU WILL KNOW ME: Migration Stories, Artalive Gallery, New Delhi, India
2019 In BEtween, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
2019 New Perspectives in Printmaking, Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber University, Ogden Utah.
2019, Venture into Optics, Johnson County Library, KS
2019 Hispanic Heritage Month Johnson County KS Arts and Heritage Center,
2019 Tribuna Graphic International Printmaking Exhibition, Muzeul de Artã Cluj-Napoca,Rumania
2019 Trayectory and Linear Perspectives, Studios Inc., Kansas City, MO
2019 Lineage + Impact, Haw Contemporary Kansas City, MO
2019, Studios Inc, 2019!, Kansas City, MO
2019 Midwest Print Invitational, Peninsula School of Art Fish Creek WI
2018, Tried, True and Techno, Constellation Studios Lincoln, NE
2018, Signs and Symbols, The Hand Magazine and The Expanded Field, Fraction Studio KC
2018-20, The Kansas City Collection, Kansas City Consortium
2018, 2018 IAPA Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, China.
2018 Unexpected Encounters, Curated selection from the Permanent Collection, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2018 Studios Inc. 2018 Artists, Kansas City, MO
2017 Post-Digital Printmaking Exhibition, Redefinition of Print, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland
2017 PaperWest. A National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT (Nov. 2017)
2017, Preservation Portfolio, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence KS
2017 Current States, a Curated Show of Printmaking Faculty from the Midwest region, University of Kansas Art Gallery.
2017 Studios Inc. Artists in Residence
2017, KCAC Auction Show
2016 KCAC 40th Anniversary River Market Regional Exhibition
2016 KCAC Auction Show
2015, Crossover, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA.
2014 HR Block Art Space Flat File exhibition, Kansas City, MO.
2013, Made in China, Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2014 Crossover II, University of Boulder CO
2014 Traces and Gestures, Richmond Center for Visual Art, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2013 Traces and Gestures, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2013 Traces and Gestures, Proyecto ‘Ace, Dialogo Space/Central Hall, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 Traces and Gestures, King Family Exhibition Space, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2013 Traces and Gestures, Greymatter Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (Part of SGCI International Conference)
2012 The Art of Giving Mattie Rhodes Art Center,.
2011 Self-Portraits, Exhibition Center Raymond-Lasnier of the Culture House of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.
2011 Narrow Margins, KCAI faculty biennial, Kansas City, MO
2009 From the Muddy Banks of the Monongahela, WVU Laura Mesaros Gallery, curated by Robert Bridges.
2009 KCAI Art and Design Auction, Kansas City MO, June
2009 IMPRINT,Kansas City Institute Printmaking Faculty, The University of Kansas Art and Design Gallery.
2008 Faculty Review/Preview, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA October-November
2008 HR Block Art Space Flat File exhibition, Kansas City, MO.
2008 New Three HR Block Art Space, Kansas City MO
2008 Between Walls/ Entre Muros, University of Miami, FL, January 25-February 22.
2007 Faculty show, University of Guanajuato,
2007 Tokyu Gallery Hotel, Kyoto, Japan.
2005 Mexico & Japan Printmaking Show, Polivalente Gallery, University of Guanajuato
2005 Day of the Dead Billboard Art Show, Guanajuato
2004 Alumni Invitational, Laura Mesaros Gallery, CAC, WVU
2004 Day of the Dead Billboard Art Show, Guanajuato
2004 Congregating Printmaking, Regional Center for the Arts, Salamanca
2004 Summer Prints, Corazones 19 Gallery, Guanajuato
2003 Planting-Harvesting-Multiplying, Regional Center for the Arts, Prints from Six Mexican States, Salamanca
2003 Prints, Corazones 19 Gallery, Guanajuato
2002 Day of the Dead Billboard Art Show, Guanajuato
2002 Rescuing Roots, IFAI Foundation, San Miguel de Allende
2002 Homage to Art Deco, State Congress Building, Guanajuato
1999 Domestic Mapping, Las Muertas Gallery, Guanajuato
1999 Amistad Show University Gallery, Guanajuato
1998 Prints, Corazones 19 Gallery, Guanajuato
Studio Residencies
2018 Scuola Internazionale de Grafica, Venice, Italy
2017-19 Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
2014 Landfall Press Santa Fe, NM
2012, Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China
2012 Borderless Studio Visits with Lisette Solarzano and the Cuban Center for Photography, Havana Cuba.
2012 Kansas City Artists Coalition for Crossover Artists summit.
2011 Project ACE, Buenos Aires Argentina.
2003 Hiroshima Junior University and Blanche Gallery, Osaka Japan.
Collections:
Kemper Museum of American Art Permanent Collection. Kansas City, MO
The Anatomy of a Group of International Printmakers,
University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder ,Colorado.
Permanent Collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Saint Lawrence University, Canton. NY.
From All Directions: Excellent Printmakers from Everywhere.
University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder ,Colorado. Permanent Collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Saint Lawrence University, Canton. NY.
Proyecto ACE Print Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Hand, Eye and Bird.
University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder ,Colorado.
One more collection University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, NV USA.
University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder, Colorado
Cork Printmakers Special Collection, Cork, Ireland
Boise State University Printmaking Collection, Boise, Idaho
University of Colorado Special Collection
Proyecto´ace Print Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Permanent Collection of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery,
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Nelson Atkins Print Collection
University of North Texas Print Collection.
BKD, LLP Kansas City, MO.
Jane Vorhees Personal Collection, Kansas City. MO.
Sandra Castillo-Jackson Personal Collection, Kansas City, MO
Merry Quakenbush Personal Collection, Kansas City, MO.
Proyecto ‘ACE Print collection.
Museo del Pueblo, Guanajuato, Mexico
Education
1997 MFA West Virginia University, WV
1995 BFA Southern Oregon University, OR
1992 Associate’s Degree in Printmaking, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico