Works
Exhibitions
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Longest Way Round 14 March - 19 April 2025Read more -
Not Too Late: A Benefit Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with Art into Acres 3 May - 7 June 2024This May, Charles Moffett is pleased to present a special group exhibition, Not Too Late, featuring new and recent work by 21 artists and organized in collaboration with Art into Acres. A long-term philanthropic partner of the gallery, Art into Acres was founded by artist and conservationist Haley Mellin in 2017 as a nonprofit initiative that transforms the proceeds from the sale of donated artworks into acres of conserved land. Through this special exhibition, the gallery strives to raise collective awareness and catalyze the fundraising for Indigenous-led land conservation. In a testament to the gallery’s steadfast commitment to this cause, Charles Moffett is honored that all ten of the gallery’s represented artists have donated their work to the exhibition; and is deeply appreciative of the generous contributions of eleven artists with whom the gallery has had close and meaningful ties throughout its first six years.Read more
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Kenny Rivero
This, That, and The Third Eye 5 - 21 October 2023Charles Moffett is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Kenny Rivero at No.9 Cork Street. Coinciding with Frieze London and Masters 2023, This, That, and The Third Eye marks the first presentation of the artist's work in the U.K. and his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.Read more -
Kenny Rivero
Steward: The Ballad of a Super Super 9 September - 22 October 2022Charles Moffett is pleased to present, Steward: The Ballad of a Super Super, a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Kenny Rivero. This marks the artist's third solo exhibition with the gallery and his first New York show in two years.Read more -
Acid Garden
19 January - 19 February 2022Read more -
Kenny Rivero
I Still Hoop 29 October - 27 December 2020Charles Moffett is pleased to announce I Still Hoop, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Kenny Rivero, on view at the gallery's Canal Street location from October 29 through December 13.Read more -
Artists for NADA
Supporting the NADA Gallery Relief Fund 17 April - 10 May 2020Read more -
Hold On, Hold Me
Curated by Kenny Rivero 26 June 2019 - 1 August 2023Charles Moffett is pleased to present Hold On, Hold Me , an exhibition of images and objects featuring the work of Hangama Amiri, Mariel Capanna, Tommy Coleman, Michael Demps, Peter...Read more -
Kenny Rivero
i see you with my eyes closed 7 September - 27 October 2018Charles Moffett is pleased to present i see you with my eyes closed, a solo exhibition of recent works by the New York-based artist Kenny Rivero. In his first exhibition at the gallery Rivero has staged a series of works that present cultural complexities through the lens of Afro-Caribbean New Yorkness.Read more
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Biography
Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; works in New York. MFA Yale 2012, BFA SVA 2006.) Rivero's work, which spans paintings, collage, drawings, and sculpture, explores the complexity of identity through narrative images, language, and symbolism. His aim is to deconstruct the histories and identities he has been raised to understand as absolute and to re-engineer them into new wholes, with new functions. His creative process allows him to explore what he perceives as the broken narrative of Dominican American identity, socio-geographic solidarity, familial expectations, race, and gender roles. Rivero cites the hybrid qualities of salsa, hip-hop, house music, jazz, and merengue-as well as Vodun and Santeria, which were present in his daily life growing up-as core influences on his decision-making in the studio. Kenny Rivero's work is represented in notable public collections including The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; El Museo del Barrio, New York. NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Collection of Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; and Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL.
Press
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Artist Kenny Rivero's Newest Solo Exhibition
Alison Stewart, All Of It, 15 September 2022 -
Kenny Rivero’s Tricks of the Eye
Miguel Morales, The New York Times Style Magazine, 7 September 2022 -
Moveable Feasts
Max Lakin, ARTFORUM, 15 September 2021 -
Art Fairs Come Blazing Back, Precarious but Defiant
Will Heinrich, The New York Times, 9 September 2021 -
Kenny Rivero | Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers at BMAC
Constanza Falco Raez, Flaunt, 19 March 2021 -
Kenny Rivero Is Painting the Monsters We Choose to Ignore
Saam Niami, Interview Magazine, 17 March 2021 -
2020: A Year in New York Exhibitions and More
Dessane Lopez Cassell, Hyperallergic, 30 December 2020 -
Kenny Rivero's New Paintings Poetically Explore His "Fear of Death as a Person of Color in America"
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, 11 December 2020 -
Five New York Gallery Shows To See This Winter
Jacoba Urist, Cultured, 3 December 2020 -
Editors’ Picks: 8 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a New Release on 50 Women Sculptors to a Nicolas Party Ch
Katie White, Artnet News, 23 November 2020 -
Your Concise New York Art Guide for November 2020
Cassie Packard and Dessane Lopez Cassell, Hyperallergic, 2 November 2020 -
Kenny Rivero Takes A Journey Through The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death In A New Body Of Paintings
Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 28 October 2020
