Eduardo L Rivera

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.