Daniela Rivera

Lives and works in Boston, MA, USA

Artist statement

I work to challenge the construction of stereotypes or categories that discriminate, isolate and violently define other's identities. My practice engages with ideas of displacement, memory, and cultural migration to celebrate difference and reject categorization. I build, paint, and draw spaces to be vulnerable together where I hope to celebrate difference and cultural exchange.

Artwork

• Tilted Paradigm #3, 2026. Adobe stucco on wooden frame
• Tilted Paradigm #3, 2026. Adobe stucco on wooden frame
• Titled Paradigm # 3, 2026. Wooden Structure (Quincha) and adobe
• Vertical Horizon, 2026. Cerulean Blue and Burnt Sienna oil paint and soil on canvas
• To When/ Hacia Cuando, 2026. Accesible wood Platform surfaced with buon fresco paintings, wall made out of dirt stucco and lime putty and pigment(tadelakt) and sound. Space walls are all drawn in copper point. In the image you can also see Tilted Paradigm and inclined dirt structure.
• Tilted Paradigm 2, 2025. Adobe on wooden structure, earbuds, mirror, sound "10/ 25/ 2019 (full day) The Largest March in Chile" from the sound archives of Galeria CIMA (Santiago, Chile) of the 2019-2020 Chilean protest movement known as the Estallido Social, and sound from symphony orchestra tuning.
• The Andes Inverted/ la Inversion de los Andes, 2018. oil and soil on board on wooden structure
• Tilted Paradigm, 2024. Fresco on concrete board on wood frame, mirror, copper point on wall, narratives of migration sound piece
• Donde el Cielo Toca la Tierra/Where the Sky Touches the Earth Performance, 2024. Donde el Cielo Toca la Tierra/Where the Sky Touches the Earth. Singing and sound performance on soil and sound installation
• Donde el Cielo Toca la Tierra/Where the Sky Touches the Earth, 2019. Oil and mine soil on canvas144
• Sobremesa (Karaoke Politics), 2019. Repurposed dining tables, karaoke machine
• Signs (Trust), 2023. Photo mounted on dibond mounted on photo mounted on dibond
• Tilted Heritage, 2019. Ash on canvas, stretcher bars, rope, C clamps, wall drawings
• Accidental Memling Gul (oriental rug), 2011. oil on canvas