Quintín Rivera Toro (Caguas, PR, 1978)
Holds a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Hunter College, New York – 2001, a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico – 2007 and a Master in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has shown his artwork in Puerto Rico at the Museo de Arte de Caguas, Museo Dr. Pío López Martínez in Cayey, the Museo y Centro de Estudios Humanístico in the Universidad del Turabo en Gurabo, el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico both in San Juan.
Since the year 2002 he has been awarded with the DAAD Travel Grant, with which he travelled to Cologne and and Belin in Germany; Full fellowships for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson Vermont and the National Academy of Design in New York; An internship at the Chinati Museum in Marfa, Texas; The Lexus Grant for artists in Puerto Rico; In 2005, he executed the public art project “Un espacio libre” which has been shown aside from its original site, at the Museo del Barrio for the S-Files biennial and the art fair Pinta, both in NYC. The project was also shown in the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. He was also selected to study with the Escuela internacional de Teatro de América Latina y el Caribe (E.I.T.A.L.C.) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He worked as the Creative Director of ÁREA, lugar de proyectos in Caguas, P.R. from the year 2005 – 2007. In 2009 he was invited as a artist in residence at the Ox Bow School of Art in Chicago, IL.
His video work has been invited to the San Juan Cinema Fest in Puerto Rico; the Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo in Montevideo, Uruguay; the Museo de Antropología y Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador; the School of the MFA in Boston, MA; twice at the Instituto de Arte Moderno in Valencia, Spain; Exit Art, NYC; the OEA Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC and the Yesou International Arts Festival in South Korea.
