Elena del Rivero

Elena del Rivero

Biography

Born in Valencia, Spain. Lives and works in New York.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2006
At Hand, Works on Paper by Elena Del Rivero IVAM, Valencia, Spain.

2005
Ron Jagger Salon, Ground Zero, New York, NY

2004
Nine Broken Letters, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2002
Documentaciones, Centro Historico, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

2001
Sweet Home, Galeria de Arte DV, San Sebastian, Spain
La Perfecta Casada, Galleria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
[Swi:t] Home (One Year of My Life), Drawing Center, New York, NY
Las Hilanderas, The Spinner, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
Que Tenga Rejas de Bronce, Window Project, Art In General, New York, NY

2000
Intrados, Department of Film Studies, Universidad Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
In Love, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain

1998
Five Kept Letters, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

1997
Letters to the Mother, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Letters From the Bride, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Cartas, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain

1996
Cartas, Espacio Caja- Burgos, Spain

1995
300 Letters to the Mother V, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions

2003
Il Raconto del Filo: Ricamo e Cucito nell’Arte Contemporanea, MART, Roverto, Italy
Personal Perspectives, The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Fellowship Exhibition, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Systems Now: A Survey of Recent Systematic Art, Elvejem Museum of Art, Madison, WI

2002
Entre Lineas, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Microwave, Christinrose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Gotico…Pero Exotico, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain
Contemporary American Paper Artists: An Invitational Exhibition, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2001
By Hand: Patterns, Precision, and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Between Text and Textiles, 123 Watts, New York, NY
Spitting Image: Myth and Creation of Feminine identity, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT
Rags to Riches: 25 years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne, Milwaukee Art Museum (traveling)

2000
Microwave. Two, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY
Paper Trail, The Rutgers Summer fest 2000, New Brunswick, NJ
Greater New York,, P.S.1. and MOMA, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
M’escrius una Carta, Museo Arte Contemporaneo, Girona, Catalonia

1999
Die Kunst der Linie Moglichkeiten des Graphischen, Landesgalerie Oberosterreich, Linz, Germany
Drawing is Another Kind of Language, The Parrish Museum, South Hampton, NY
All Dressed in White, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Zeichnen ist Eine Andere Art von Sprache. Neure Amerikanische Zeichnungen aus Einer New Yorker. Privatsammiung, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Travels to Musee de Picardie, Amiens
Como nos Vemos, Imagenes y Arquetipos Femininos, Circulo Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

1998
Zeichnen ist Eine Andere Art Von Sprache, Neure Amerikanische Zeichnungen aus Einer New Yorker Privatsammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Germany
Il Salon Refactario, Galeria Buades, Madrid, Spain
Interlacins: The Craft of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum, Stamford, CT
New Museum’s 21st Anniversary Benefit Gala, New Museum, New York, NY
Gothic Distress, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
Original Scale, APEX, New York, NY
Como nos Vemos. Imagenes y Arquetipos Femeninos, Centre Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain

1997
Drawing is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Harvard, University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Anthony Meier Fine Arts. San Francisco, CA
New Work: Drawings Today, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
The Poetics of Obsession, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY
Text & Identity: 12 Women/12 Artists, S.U.N.Y Stony Brooke, Stony Brooke, NY
Raó I Sensibilitá., Fundació, La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

1996
25th Anniversary, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Margaret Roeder Gallery. Cologne, Germany
To Live is to Leave Traces, Instituto Cultural Cabaña, Guadalajara, Mexico
Repetition of Form, Margaret Roeder Gallery, New York, NY

1995
Peninsulares, Módulo, Lisbon, Portugal
INTART (with Jaime Palacios), New York, NY
Options: Divergent Visions, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Human/Nature, Benefit Auction, The New Museum, New York, NY
Parpalló 15/41 (15 years/40 artists), Cultural la Beneficenia, Valencia, Spain
Johannesburg Biennale, The African Museum, Johannesburg, Africa

1994
Salón de los 16, Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
El Color de Los Sueños, Galería Jorge Mara, Madrid, Spain

1993
With Light, Galerie LeLong, New York, NY

Awards

2002
New York Foundation for the Arts. New York Recovery Arts Fund 9/11, New York, NY
Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Emergency program 9/11, New York, NY

2001
Creative Capital Foundation Grant (Visual Arts-Installation), New York, NY
New York Foundation for the Arts, Works on Paper, New York, NY

1994
Premio Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

1991
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. New York, NY

1988
Prix de Rome, Painting, Spanish Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy



Bibliography

2003
Barliant, C.; The Microwave, Art on Paper, January

2002
Barliant, C.; Pulp Witness: Elena del Rivero’s [Swi:t] Home, Art on Paper, May-June
Bassas, A.; Entrevista a Elena del Rivero, Duoda, Centre de Recerca de Done, May
Brown, J; Minerva, Arachne and Marcel,
Finch, E; A Conversation with Elena del Rivero
Ramirez, J.A.; Desnuda-Vestido, Vestida- Desnudo: Les Amoureuses (Elena and Rrrose), con Marcel Duchamp al fondo
Rivas, Q; Busco Lana y Lino y Obro con el Saver de sus Manos
Revera-Garretas, M.M.; Las Perfectas. Documentaciones, Centro de Historico, Universidad de Salamanca, May 17th, Salamanca, Spain

2001
Finch, E.; The Drawing as Instrument, Drawing Center Papers, April 18- July 28
Rossetti, A; Desde mi Celda, Art in General
Llorca, P.; Elena del Rivero and Tere Recarens, Art Forum, September

2000
Kino, C.; The Emergent Factor ( A recent show at PS.1), Art in America, July, #7
Sichel, B.; Ese gran Laboratorio, The Journal of Art, #32
Kutner, J; Collector drawn to emerging artists, The Dallas Morning News, February

1999
Landi, A.; Drawing is Another Kind of Language, ARTnews, December
Johnson, K.; Drawn to Scale, The New York Times, August, 6.
Spector, N.; Broadly Speaking, Dieu Donne Papermille, New York.
Yablonsky, L.; Echo of an Unfinished letter, Track 16
Gonzalez, R; How to Feed and Sustain a Fragment, Track 16
Balsach, M.J., Letter to a Young Daughter, Cimal # 51

1998
Cabello/Carceler ; Cartas desde la Nostalgia, The Journal of Art # 16
Sichel, B.; How to Take a Baby Home, New Observations, Summer/Fall
Rego, J.C.; Cartas de Otono..., Arte y Parte. November #17
Parreno, J.M.; Sus Labores, Arte y Parte # 14
Yau, J.; After Scylla and Charybidis, Apex Art

1997
Schwarz, D.; Not a Drawing, Some Thoughts about Recent Drawing
Letter to the Mother, The Paris Review, Winter
Arriola, M.; Vivir es Dejar Huellas, Poliester, Winter, #5
PARRENO. J.M.; Labores minimalistas, de Elena del Rivero, ABC, Feb.2
Danvila, J.R.; Elena del Rivero. El Punto de las Artes, Feb.14-20
Maderuelo.J.; Alegatos contra la madre, El País, Feb. 22
Cotter, H.; Art in Review, The New York Times, April 4
Braff, P.; Text and Identity: 12 Women/12 artists, The New York Times, April 6

1996
Map, The Institute of International Visual Arts, The Arts Council of England, March

1995
Zaya, O., Black Looks, White Myths, Journal of Contemporary African Art, # 3

1994
Letter to the Mother, Atlántica, Issue # 9
Martinez, A.; Elena del Rivero, Flash Art, March


Publications and Essays

2000
In Love, Brochure entry, Galería Javier lópez

1999
Sos un Tango Para mí, Introduction Essay to Letanías by Oscar Manesi, A Magic Circus CD-Rom, October 24

1995
Semmes, B; Creación, Estética y Teoría de las Artes, Universidad Madrid, # 13

1994
Dumas, M; Guiarte, # 13

1993
Coplans, Jonh; Guiarte, # 5



Selected Lectures

2001
Universidad de Barcelona, La Práctica de la Pau, Centre de Recerca de Dones,
MACBA, Barcelona, May 11

1999
School of New Rochelle, Visiting Artist Lecture, New Rochelle, NY, November 17

1998
Wellesley College, Celebrating Justina Ruiz Cond, Weaving of Memory, Wellesley, MA, April 14
Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Hand Made, Stamford, CT, September 28



Public and Private Collections

Atrium, Vitoria, Spain
American Express, San Francisco, CA
CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Caja-Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Dieu Donné PaperMill, New York, NY
Fundación Coca Cola, Madrid. Spain
Collection Nordstern Versichtunsen AG, Cologne, Germany
Colección Arte Contemporáneo, Fundació La Caixa. Barcelona, Spain
Fogg Art Museum. Harvard, MA
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Museo Nacional, Centro Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Muse de Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Spanish Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy