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Luis Rivera Jiménez (1997), Dominican and Puerto Rican. He is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher who works with physical and digital materials to create spaces and experiences for possible reconfigurations of western epistemologies and racial structures. His artistic practice takes “digital global society” as a starting point and borrows language and forms from contemporary art, anarchist political thought, psychoanalysis, and the Caribbean quotidian. This all to post questions within the dynamics of representation, hierarchies, collaboration, context, and "poor" materialities and how to attune them to contemporary material, digital and racial conditions.

Luis Rivera Jiménez (1997) is a dominican/puertorican artist, writer, researcher, curator and archivist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a founding member and co-coordinator of Albania. His artistic practice takes “digital global society” as a starting point and borrows language and forms from contemporary art, anarchist political thought, psychoanalysis, and the Caribbean quotidian. Recent exhibitions as an artist include his first institutional solo exhibition “Luis Rivera Jimenez: A Brief Proposal on Race and Cosplay” at the ASU Art Museum with CALA Alliance in Phoenix, Arizona and the group exhibition “Puerto Rico Negrx” at the Museo de Arte Contemporary of Puerto Rico, San Juan. In 2022 was part of the Archivos del Caribe team that was awarded a Monument Lab Re: Generation grant.

FEATURED ARTWORK

Collection of images of cartoon characters edited with dark skin and pictures of life.
Luis Rivera Jiménez. Red Historica, 2022 Digital Print on Paper 18" x 28" they never told us we were niggas. Albania Galeria, 2022 San Juan, Puerto Rico. Image courtesy of the artist.
White T-shirts lined up on hangers on the wall. Literature pages are printed onto the shirts in black.
Luis Rivera Jiménez. White Tee, 2023. 37 x 35 in. each; overall dimensions variable screen printed t-shirt. Photograph courtesy of CALA Alliance © Shaunté Glover.
Glass jar covered in fish nets, filled with ingredients and spices.
Luis Rivera Jiménez. Mamajuana 2, 2021. First 3 parts of René Descartes' Discourse on Method, honey, red wine, rum, vodka, brown sugar, spices. Image courtesy of the artist.