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Tomás Rivas was born in Santiago de Chile in 1975. He received a Post-baccalaureate and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art from the Universidad Católica de Chile. He later attended the University of Notre Dame where he completed his MFA in sculpture. Rivas currently lives and works in Washington, D.C., dividing his time between an Academic Year Internship in Exhibition Design at the National Gallery of Art and his professional career as an artist. Rivas's artwork deals with the historic tension between two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation. His ongoing investigation of the representation of space addresses the complexity of art production today, where the "center" and the "periphery" vie for political clout within the mainstream. In 2005 Rivas's MFA thesis exhibit received two prestigious awards: The Outstanding Student Achievement Award of the International Sculpture Center publishers of Sculpture Magazine, and the Snite Museum of Art's Walter R. Beardsley Award for Best in Show. In addition to these awards, in 2004, Tomás Rivas received the 1984 Foundation Fellowship for his participation in "Project for the Study and Publication of the Greek Architecture at Corinth," directed by Prof. Robin F. Rhodes. In 1997-98, motivated by his Italian heritage, Rivas applied for and received a Università degli Studi di Genova Scholarship to pursue Italian Studies. While in Italy, he also lived and worked in Milan as a printmaking apprentice. Today, Rivas’ artwork incorporates both printmaking and sculpture into a larger conceptual practice of drawing. |
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