Studio Residency at the Visual Studies Workshop. Image by Hernease Davis
Eduardo L Rivera is an artist from Phoenix, Arizona, who currently lives and works in Massachusetts. Influenced by the poetics and politics that ripple through his childhood home near the U.S.-Mexico border, his work uses portraiture, still life, landscape, and vernacular imagery to consider notions of belonging, time, and the significance of light.
Eduardo’s photographs have been the subject of solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; En Foco, Bronx, NY; Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX; Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA; and the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, among others. His work has appeared in multiple print and online publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Aperture, Nueva Luz, Lenscratch, and Capricious Publishing. Light Work published Eduardo’s work in Contact Sheet 223, and multiple photographs of his are held in their permanent collection.
He is the recipient of awards such as the En Foco Fellowship Award, the Silver List Award from the Silver Eye Center for Photography, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and runner-up for the Aperture Portfolio Prize. He was an artist-in-residence at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY; the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in Philadelphia, PA; and the Studios at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA.
Eduardo received a BFA in photography from Arizona State University in 2011, an MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2016, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2019. He has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York University Steinhardt, the Rhode Island School of Design, and most recently at Hampshire College.
Email: info(at)EduardoLRivera(dot)com
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