Eduardo L Rivera is an artist from Phoenix, AZ. For the past decade he has made images with his family and community to contemplate the personal histories that ripple through his childhood home near the US-Mexico border. His photographs depict fragments of the quotidian and borrow from visual traditions such as portraiture, still-life and landscape to negotiate the poetics held in the everyday. Through his frequent return to these familiar and arid environments, he considers notions of time, belonging and the significance of light as threads woven through the fabric of his work.
Eduardo’s photographs have appeared in Aperture, Capricious, Der Greif and The New York Times Magazine and in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US. He was awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographer Award and, most recently, the En Foco Fellowship Award. He has been an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; and the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, Philadelphia, PA. In 2019, he was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received a BFA in photography from Arizona State University in 2011 and an MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2016. He has taught at Harvard University and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
PHOTO 5230-01 - CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY & RESEARCH
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PHOTO 5230-01
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY & RESEARCH
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Eduardo L RiveraLocation(s): Design Center, Room 308Enrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
What does 'research' mean for contemporary photographers? For artists using photography within their practice? This hands-on studio course investigates and critiques the nature and scope of research and its practical application to current practice, and how research provides a critical context to help develop awareness, extend subject knowledge, and inform the creation of new artistic work. We will learn through current case studies, unpicking what kinds of processes photographers use when making work. We will investigate to what extent individual practices differ and what analogies can be drawn across those practices. We will look at the roles of instinct and serendipity in allowing for other ideas to emerge. You will develop and hone your own research methods through a wide variety of experimental making and writing assignments, and through critique. This course is also a research project in itself, bringing together examples of photographic practice for you to ponder and engage into our own ideas, processes, and projects.
Estimated Materials Cost: $50.00
Elective
PHOTO 5300-01 - INTRODUCTION TO DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PHOTO 5300-01
INTRODUCTION TO DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Eduardo L RiveraLocation(s): Design Center, Room 417Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is a basic course in the techniques of photographic seeing. Students will be given exercises to develop their ideas concerning the fundamental visual problems of photography. Students will also learn technical aspects of exposure, developing and printing in the darkroom as they explore and respond to the visual qualities of the medium. Students must provide their own 35mm camera with manual controls.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $150.00 - $200.00
Elective
PHOTO 5307-01 - SENIOR STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PHOTO 5307-01
SENIOR STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPhotography
Subject Photography
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Eduardo L RiveraEnrolled / Capacity: 15Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The Senior Studio brings together the advanced skills and ideas about image-making that each student in the major has developed over the previous two years. Students are expected to work independently on their individual projects with the expectation of a culminating body of work to be presented in a public exhibition during the spring semester (Degree Project). As in Junior Studio, group and individual critiques with faculty and visiting artists will continue to form the basis of the course curriculum. Attendance at all departmental visiting artist lectures is required.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $200.00 - $250.00
Enrollment is limited to Senior Photography Students.
