KEYSHA RIVERA

DESIGNS

sculptures

+ installation

Media Work

writing ✎


Email





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Current Show(s): 

wata ways @ ACAC





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RECENT GIGS
2024 BIPOC Design History, Marketing Specialist 
2023 Sama Yoga Studio Social Media and Design
2023 New Orleans African American Museum 
2023/22 Scalawag Magazine 
2022 Global Learning Partners
2021 Darlene Reina Chicopee City Council Logo Design and Social Media Design
2021 New Orleans Eye on Surveillance Campaign Poster Design
2021 Reproductive Justice Action Collective New Orleans Illustration 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Group Show ( More Information Coming )
2024 wata ways, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, Alabama
2023 Ghostly Makers, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2023 Tiger Strikes Greenville Group Show, Greenville, SC
2023 KMAC Museum, Holding Pattern, Louisville, KY
2022 Tongue and Groove -- Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022 yerba bruja Nikki Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022 donde se despierta mi risa, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2021`Watching Palm Trees Swirl From a Sickening Pattern Past The Glass, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2020 Art From an Identity-Based Identity, CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL
2020 ROOTS Visual Salon, Alternate Roots, Online Group Show,
2019 Hot Future, 912 Julia, New Orleans, LA
2019 Group Show, Femme Feroces x Mickalene Thomas, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Finding Home Through Textiles, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

MEDIA + REVIEWS

2023 “Searching for Lost Tradition with Ghostly Makers” Paula Burrows, West Coast Curated
2023 “New KMAC Museum exhibition examines the relationship between fiber arts and technology,” Breya Jones, Louisville Public Media
2022 “Society of Arts & Crafts launches Jumpstarter Grants,” Celina Colby, The Bay State Banner2022 “Artist receives grant from Society of Arts and Crafts,” Matt Conway, Reminder Publishing 2022 “SOLOS at the CAC 2021,” Kathy Rodriguez, State of Art NOLA


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2022 yerba bruja Nikki Gallery,  ︎ Featured artists: Trècha Gay Jheneal + Keysha Rivera
2022 donde se despierta mi risa, The Front ︎  Featured artsts: Mandy Torres, Lucia Aquino, Sydney Calderon, Karla Rosas, Gabrielle Garcia Steib, Basqo and Keysha Rivera


GRANTS + FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Craft Innovator Jumpstarter Grant
2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, New York
2020 Cerf+ Get Ready Grant, Montpelier, VT
2019 Piso Mojado Art Project, Research and Development Award, Antenna Works, New Orleans, LA

RESIDENCIES
2022 Stoveworks x Burnaway Magazine Residency, Chattanooga, TN
2021 Visual Arts Residency, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2021 Converging Liberations Residency, Mass MoCA, Adams, MA
2021 Community Residency, Idyll Dandy Arts, Dowelltown, TN


OTHER
2023 Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought and Amistad Research Center, The Prepared Table
2022 Spark Artist Talk, grunt gallery, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Info here)
2022 Burnaway, Magazine, Mood Ring Digital Column 
2022 Center For Urban Pedagogy, Fellowship for Change in Design Finalist, NY, NY
Holyoke College, 2018, Biology, Associates