Ernesto Ríos

Ernesto Ríos (born October 8, 1975 in Cuernavaca, Morelos) is a Mexican new media artist and academic based in New York City.

Career

Ríos has been working with a diverse palette of tools developing his work in drawing, painting, video, photography, animation, virtual reality, performance, interactive and net art. Rios has shown his work at distinguished galleries and Museums in Mexico and other countries such as Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Fototeca de Cuba in Havana Cuba, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

The photography of Ernesto Ríos can be considered to represent a break with conventional photography; it is more a process of pictorial representation. The old idea that the camera registered what the lens saw is improved upon in the work of this mexican photographer.
— Jose Manuel Springerl, Reflex, 2003

Rios artwork has been presented through channels such as the Java Museum Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art since 2007 and exhibited in international shows such as NetSpace: Viaggio nell'arte at the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy. Rios have 13 Solo Exhibitions and 60 group exhibitions in major cities such as London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Valencia, São Paulo and Mexico City.

Rios has participated in the New Media Festival, Digital Media at the "Centre Cultural Valencia", Valencia, Spain (2008), IV and VI International Salon of Digital Art, at Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente, Havana Cuba (2003 and 2004) as well as "National Presence of Creators" Gallery of the National Institute Polytechnic, Mexico (1999). He has received numerous awards, including the Artistic Residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York City 2003, and the Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship, New York University (2004–2006).

Education

Rios studied language and Hispanic literature and linguistics in CIDHEM in 2004. He earned a MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he studied with R. Luke DuBois.

Works

DF Maze (2006)^[1]
Sand-Clock (2006)^[2]
Labrys-Syrbal (2006)^[3]

Selected exhibitions

2000 Disolvencias / Mirrors of the Memory, Center of the Image, Mexico City. Mexico.
2003 Ernesto Ríos, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2004 Ernesto Ríos, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana Cuba
2004 Ernesto Ríos. Gallery Art Resources Transfer, New York

References

↑ D.F. Maze - Ernesto Rios Archived September 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ http://ernestorios.com/index.php?/newmedia/sand-clock/ Archived February 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ http://www.ernestorios.com/newmedia/newmedia002.html

External links

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