JORGE RIVERA

Three Little Pigs 45x35x40cm Polished bronze 2006

Rivera's work explores the notion of unconscious memory, mythical collective fears and primitive child-like emotion. Setting up a distant point of view from eyes of the other, he contextualises an enquiry into the self in both object casting and filmmaking. In his film, Mar do Rostro, the dawning of self-awareness confronts the pilgrim with his own narcissism by contrasting the symbolism of the mythical characters with contemporary popular culture. Rivera then recollects the transformation of myth and its shifted value in our unconsciousness, making them into the amorphous figures. These distorted characters, generated from the universal-fairy-tale, constantly evolve while recalling the unconscious memory in our childhood.

EDUCATION 2005-06   PhD in sculpture, Royal College of Art 2002-04   Research, MPhil in sculpture, Royal College of Art 1998-00   MA Fine Arts, Royal College of Art 1992-97   BA (Hons) Fine Arts, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Pontevedra, Spain SOLO SHOWS 2004         Erotogenicity, Gneme del Narcissismo Primario, Galeria SCQ, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2003         Juego RevueltoII Galeria Caracol, Valladolid, Spain 2003         Juego Revuelto Galeria 57 Madrid 2003         La Piscina Project room Arco’03, Madrid 2002         Arquetipes Fifty-B Gallery Los Angeles. California 2001         Sumum-Sumo Takumy Museum, Nagoya GROUP SHOWS 2006         The Museum of Sorrow The Union Chapel, London 2006         Los invisibles Parlamento de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2005         Treason The Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London 2004         Arco’04 Stand Galeria Fernando Serrano, Huelva 2004          Where are you from? Galeria Fernando Serrano, Huelva 2003          Second Edition of Fine Arts Prize, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de compostela 2003         Purificacion Garcia, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid 2003         Arco’03 Stand Galeria 57, Madrid 2003         You thought they were dreams The Fraser Gallery, London 2001         The Noble Path Taghauer Gallery, Tokyo 2000         Sotheby’s Artlink Sotheby’s Young Artists Tel-Aviv, Vienna and Chicago 2000         The Show Royal College of Art, London 1999         Faith and Reason The Hockney Gallery, RCA, London 1999         Young Blood Soho Square, Amaratti Puris Lintas, London 1998         Circuitos Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid 1997         Huovo el Nuovo Teatro Principal de Pontevedra 1996         Second Edition Salon de Otoño, Nuestra Señora del Rosario GRANTS AND PRIZES 2004         Selected for the Third Edition of Fine Arts Prize, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela. Spain         2003         Finalist, Purificacion Garcia Prize, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2001-02    Artist in Residency, Modern Multiples, Los Angeles, California 2000-01    Artist in Residency, The World Design Centre, Gifu, Nagoya 2000         Summer Studios, Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Vienna 2000         Alaistair Grant Award 2000         Finalist Madame Tousauds Interdisciplinary Fine Art Prize 1999         Summer Studios, Hoschlude der Kunste Berlin 1999         Dawler-Rawney Drawing Prize 1998         The British Council & D. Pedro Barrie de La Maza Grant for Postgraduate Students