Daniela Rivera

Daniela Rivera’s practice is informed by experiences of displacement, memory, and cultural migration. Rivera builds, paints, and draws spaces that reject categorization and invite participants to share agency and vulnerability.  

She received her BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1996, and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston in 2006. She is currently Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She has exhibited in Latin America, and the United States, and has been awarded residencies at Loghaven, Headland Center for the Arts, Surf Point, Proyecto'ace in Buenos Aires, Vermont Studio Center, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has received notable fellowships and grants including The Chiaro Award, The Rappaport Prize, Now + There, Mass Cultural Council Award, VSC, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Fondo Nacional para el Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes (FONDART), and the St. Botolph Club Foundation Distinguished Artist Award. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Matucana 100 (Santiago), San Francisco Art Commission, Fitchburg Art Museum, The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Proyecto'ace (Buenos Aires), and a public art project as part of the Now + There Accelerator Fellowship.