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Elena del Rivero
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. 2022-2024
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. 2022-2024
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. 2022-2024
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
ES BALUARD MUSEU, Palma de Mallorca, Spai. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2021-2022.
Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2020.
Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, New York, United States, 2020.
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho, United States, 2021.
The University of Wyoming, Wyoming, United States, 2021.
Xavier University, Center for Equity, Justice & the Human Spirit, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2020.
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, United States, 2021.
Naves Matadero (Centro Internacional de Artes Vivas), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Naves Matadero (Centro Internacional de Artes Vivas), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Naves Matadero (Centro Internacional de Artes Vivas), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Naves Matadero (Centro Internacional de Artes Vivas), Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Mateo Feijóo. 2019.
Colombia. Curated by Berta Sichel, 2014.
Colombia. Curated by Berta Sichel, 2014.
Colombia. Curated by Berta Sichel, 2014.
Colombia. Curated by Berta Sichel, 2014.
Colombia. Curated by Berta Sichel, 2014.
New Museum, New York, United States, 2011.
New Museum, New York, United States, 2011.
New Museum, New York, United States, 2011.
Espacio AV, Murcia, Spain, 2010.
Espacio AV, Murcia, Spain, 2010.
With BRING LIGHT a sound piece by Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, United States, 2008.
With BRING LIGHT a sound piece by Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain, 2007.
With BRING LIGHT a sound piece by Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain, 2007.
IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Mordern), Valencia, Spain, 2006.
IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Mordern), Valencia, Spain, 2006.
IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Mordern), Valencia, Spain, 2006.
IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Mordern), Valencia, Spain, 2006.
IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Mordern), Valencia, Spain, 2006.
IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Mordern), Valencia, Spain, 2006.
IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Mordern), Valencia, Spain, 2006.
Centro Histórico, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, 2002.
The Drawing Center, New York, United States, 2001.
MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), Madrid, Spain, 1998.
MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), Madrid, Spain, 1998.
MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), Madrid, Spain, 1998.
Elena del Rivero is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on painting and works on paper. She draws inspiration from everyday life and what is at hand. Her projects develop slowly, building visual narratives and are completed with carefully chosen titles that favor the double entendre.
Since the early 90’s Del Rivero’s work has continued to focus on the chores of repairing works that were damaged, intentionally or not, during the process of making them. With a commitment to the act of mending, Del Rivero has completed large-scale installations like [Swi:t] Home (2001), CHANT (2006), and the series Letter to the Mother started in 1992, among others.
Initial impressions of her work may suggest it to be autobiographical. Veiled in a poetic ambiguity, Elena del Rivero has chosen to never explicitly reveal details of her life’s narrative. Instead, her work acknowledges certain experiences and historical events that she has witnessed.
Recent exhibitions include Love Song, Galería Senda, Barcelona (2022); My friends and other animals II at Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2022); The Dust Archive: An Ongoing Project, Es Baluard Museu, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2022); Home Address: Suffrage, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA (2020) and Tampa Museum of Art, Florida (2021), among other locations; The End of the World, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2019) and My friends and Other Animals, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2016).
Her work is in the collections of the MACBA (Barcelona, Spain); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States); Museum of Modern Art (New York, United States); Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, United States); Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, United States); Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, United States); National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, United States); Baltimore Art Museum (Baltimore, United States); Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, United States); Pollock Gallery at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, United States); Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, United States); Es Baluard Museu (Mallorca, Spain); IVAM Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern (Valencia, Spain) and The Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), among many others.
She has been awarded a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, United States (2017), the Solomun R. Guggenheim Fellowship (2019), and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2020). Other major grants and prizes include, Academia Bellas Artes de España in Rome (Prix de Rome 1988), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1991 and 1995), Creative Capital Foundation Grant (2001), The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2001 and 2002), The Rockefeller Foundation Residency at The Bellagio Center, Italy (2005) and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2015).
The artist lives and works in New York since 1991.
2018. Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico.
2001-2015. Typewritten text, gouache, and thread on paper. 105.5 x 73 cm
2009. Thread, collage, needle, ink, and feather on Kozo Gampi Torinokoshi peper. 91.5 x 64 cm
2017. Ink, collage and thread on abaca. 25.4 x 20.32 cm
2017. Digital impression in silk. 240 x 99 cm.
2017. Gouache, thread, turmeric on vintage grapher paper. 23.5 x 30 cm.
2015. Oil on lead primed canvas with thread. 15 x 113 cm.
2008. Gold leaf on abaca paper. 198 x 198 cm.
1999.
Installation view at IVAM Valencia, Spain. Detail.
Thread, pencil, ink-jet print and ink drawing on music manuscript, 600 pages.
17,8 x 22,9 cm/each one.
ARCOmadrid 2024 | Travesía Cuatro
Find Travesía Cuatro at Booth 9B04 at ARCOmadrid, IFEMA , Av. del Partenón 5, Barajas, 28042, Madrid, Spain.
VIP Preview: March 6 & 7
Public days: March 8 – 10
Travesía Cuatro is delighted to take part in the 43˚edition of ARCOmadrid with the work of Asunción Molinos Gordo, Teresa Solar Abboud, Álvaro Urbano, Mateo López, Donna Huanca, Jose Dávila, Ana Prata, Gonzalo Lebrija, Eleonore Koch, Jorge Méndez Blake, Jorge Eielson, Sara Ramo, Charlie Billingham, Guga Szabzo, Alexandre Estrela and Elena del Rivero.
FRIEZE SEÚL 2023 | Travesía Cuatro
Travesía Cuatro is thrilled to share that we’ll be located at Booth A2, COEX, 513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul for Frieze Seoul, 2023.
Private days: September 6-7
Public days: September 8-9
Artists: Milena Muzquiz, Jose Dávila, Donna Huanca, Ana Prata, Mariela Scafati, Jorge Méndez Blake, Teresa Solar Abboud, Álvaro Urbano, Charlie Billingham and Elena del Rivero and new collaborations with Guga Szabzon, Sofía Bassi) and Joeun Kim Aatchim.
NEW YORK CITY HALL | Elena del Rivero
Monstrous rags, as the artist calls them, wave like flags in the Home Address project that is now shown at New York City Hall to represent the female fight in contemporary society. The ongoing project by Elena del Rivero, was inaugurated on March 8th, 2023, in the framework of International Women’s Day.
Womanology
Artists: Donna Huanca, Elena del Rivero.
Authors: Ángela Molina and Manuela Mena.
José Ramón Prieto Collection, 2021.
El archivo del polvo
Artist: Elena del Rivero
Authors: Pepa Balsach, Warwick Anderson, Nada Shabout, Carmen Calvo Santesmases and Jorge García García, Elena del Rivero, Mateo Feijóo, Mónica Valenciano, Luz Pichel, Ophelia Maré
Caniche Editorial, 2020
Elena del Rivero. Colección Recorridos Cruzados, 3
Artist: Elena del Rivero
Authors: Javier Panera, Juan Antonio Ramírez, M. J. Balsach, Jonathan Brown, María Milagros Rivera Garretas, Quico Rivas, Elizabeth Finch.
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2002
At Hand: Works on paper
Artist: Elena del Rivero
Authors: Elizabeth Finch, Olga Fernández López, Mina Takahashi, Maria-Josep Balsach, Linda Yablonsky.
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia 2006 and Patio Herreriano. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid.
