Arturo Rivera

Arturo Rivera (April 15, 1945) is a Mexican contemporary master painter. He was born in Mexico D.F. and studied painting in San Carlos from 1963 to 1968. In 1969 he presented his first solo exhibition in homage to Che Guevara in Molino de Santo Domingo. In 1973 he studied serigraphy and photoserigraphy in London. In 1976, he moved to New York and in 1978 began utiliizing the form of hyperrealism for which he is renowned today. In 1979 he went to Munich, Germany to study with Max Zimmerman, whom he had met in New York.

He returned to Mexico in 1981 for a show in the University of Arts and Sciences Museum. As he continued to perfect his style of hyperrealism throughout the 80's and 90's with numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout Mexico, Rivera portrayed dark, anatomic, and sometimes macabre themes. In 2000, Arturo Rivera headlined an exhibit of self-portrait paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Mexico City along side such notable mexican artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. In 2003, Arturo Rivera was honored by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Mexico (the MARCO) as one of the Grand Masters of Mexican Art of the 20th century.

Now living in Austin, Texas, he continues to show throughout Mexico, Europe, and the Americas and is held in numerous contemporary art museums and private collections.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

Sitemap
Painter sitemap
Techniques sitemap
Materials sitemap