Ana Rivera
Bio: Ana Rivera (b. Bogotá, 1988) is an artist, musician, and art historian currently based in New York City. She received a BA in Art History from the Universidad de los Andes in 2013. Since 2012 she has worked as co-founder and collaborator of several art collectives and artist-run spaces focused on generating alternative platforms for the production, exhibition, and discussion of emerging art and music in Bogotá.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Ana Rivera’s work lies at the intersection between drawing, sculpture and writing, and is concerned with narrative, translation, representations of systems of information and how they sustain structures of historic and institutional power. Her practice frequently circles around narratives of art history, the mediums and formats that are intrinsic to them, the power held in the translation of these narratives, as well as the empty frames that are gained in the distribution of information.
L to R: Columbia MFA Open Studios (Variable dimensions, Performance, skate ramp, engraved skateboard wheels, ink, 2017); Columbia MFA Open Studios (Variable dimensions, Performance, skate ramp, engraved skateboard wheels, ink, 2017); Columbia MFA Open Studios (Variable dimensions, Performance, skate ramp, engraved skateboard wheels, ink, 2017); Untitled (30 x 30 x 12 cms, Hand engraved tinted ceramic, steel, 2017)