Loreto Riveros

Latina artist based in NYC.
My artwork departs from questioning the “subject matter” in contemporary art by experimenting with classical art media and its relationship to digital work. Having received a traditional education in drawing and painting, I merge this knowledge to a digital context, inviting the viewer to reflect and think on what is understood as “real” in the world of contemporary visual arts.
I take as a theoretical and conceptual reference Walter Benjamin’s ideas about the impossibility of thinking of art, in the modern-aesthetic terms society was thinking about, before the irruption of new technological mediums of production (notions of authenticity, novelty, hand-made and authorship). Another relevant conceptual referent is Jean Baudrillard and his idea of simulacrum and evident artifice in art.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Universidad de Chile (2009) and an MFA in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, 2013). I have also studied Fine Arts and Art History at the University of California Los Angeles (2007) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Cross-media (Graphic design, Web and Video), from Academia MAC (Santiago, Chile 2008).

2017
. September: Collective art show, "Single Fare 4", at Highline Stages, NYC.

2014
. November: Collective art show, "Artists books in the Electronic Age", at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus Library.

2013
. February: Solo show, "Jacundó", at Pratt DDA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2012
. January: Solo Show, “Re-creo”, at Bech Gallery, Santiago, Chile.

2011
. Artistic Residency at Rosario, Argentina: “In the name of the Virgin”. Collective performative-painting work exhibited at WIP (Work in Progress Gallery).

. May-June: Individual Painting Show, “Render”, at Guillermo Nuñez Gallery, Santiago, Chile.

2010
. Art show with Simón Catalán, Milena Gröper, and Judith Lara at Young Art Balmaceda Gallery Santiago, with digital work “Drawing-Artifice”.

2009
. March: Collective art show at “Young art Contest” at Santiago’s Contemporary Art Museum, with digital work “Tea Cup”.

. April: Duo art show “I am the path, the truth, and the life...” at Juan Egenau Gallery, at the University of Chile’s art faculty.

. July-August: Solo show, “I am the path, the truth, and the life...” at Cultural Corporation “Estación Mapocho”.

. July-August: Collective art show at Young Art Contest Valparaiso 2009 at “El Farol” Gallery...