Nació en Cuernavaca en 1953. Sus estudios abarcan Historia del Arte en el Museo de Louvre, París, Francia 1973-1974; de 1978 a 1984 estudia en el Taller Independiente de Robin Bond, Royal Academy of London, México, DF; Licenciatura en Historia del Arte en el Instituto de Cultura Superior, México DF 1985-1989.

“La respuesta inmediata a las pinturas de Cecilia Rivera es a su expresivo uso del color, la energía y belleza apoderada por una extensa aplicación de pintura y obviamente interpretaciones personales de una visión romántica y estética del mundo.
La revelación contenida en su arte consiste en un acto de descubrimiento emocional esparcido en campos de color aplicados con un montón de pinceladas libres, interpenetradas, formas y capas de pigmento para efectos ricos en la superficie. Esta frescura de aproximación, capturando la esencia de una realidad abstracta que resulta en un exaltado sentimiento romántico del lenguaje secreto de los colores, aviva todos los sentidos y las interacciones con memorias.”

– Carol Damian. Directora de The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum.

Cecilia Rivera

“Cecilia Rivera ́s paintings are characterized by her expressive use of color, the energy and beauty seized by a broad application of paint, and obviously personal interpretations of a romantic aesthetic and vision of the world.

The revelation contained in her art consists of an act of emotional discovery. Her paintings present a private glance into a world of euphoric color made meaningful by the artist ́s commend of the act of abstraction and its ability to seize the fleeting and the transitory.”

Carol Damian, Director The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida

“Cecilia Rivera’s vision unites, almost by law, the cosmic with the intimate, since her roots are spiritual. The great bearers of interior vision have been mystics of all kinds who have lifted, for the common people, the veils of a divine communion. In our time, the inner vision is not an exclusively religious matter; in the fields of art it refers,

preferably, to identity. And in Mexican painting it is surely in the territory of feminine identity where the inner vision has penetrated more deeply, in painters like Lilia Carrillo or Irma Palacios. The work of Cecilia Rivera, in this context, gives us a remarkable fight of the veils, a difficult task that consists of penetrating the soul putting into play the meeting of internal forces, whose accuracy is gestated precisely in its expression on the canvas.”

Jaime Moreno Villareal, Art Critic and writer

Biography

She was born in Cuernavaca in 1953. She studied art history at the Louvre Museum in Paris between 1973 and 1974. She studies at the Robin Bond’s Independent Workshop of the Royal Academy of London in Mexico City from 1978 to 1984 and completes a BA in art history at the Instituto de Cultura

Superior in Mexico City from 1985 to 1989. Later in 1990- 1992 she completed studies in History and Phenomenology of

Religions on the Anahuac University in Mexico city.

She had solo exhibitions in Mexico (1990, 1992, 1993, 1996,

1997, 2001), Washington (1994), California (1994), Paris

(1998), New Orleans (1998,1999), Belgique (1998), New

Orleans (1999), Los Angeles (2000), La Jolla (2001), Tucson

(2001), Atlanta (2003), Ft. Lauderdale (2004), Pto Rico

(2008), Berlin (2011), Miami (2012), Mexico from 2013 to

2023. She also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Paris

(1991), Washington (1994), California (1989, 2000, 2001,

2005, 2008, 2011), Louisiana (1999), Florida (2003, 2004,

2007, 2010, 2011, 2013), Boston (2009), China (2010) and

Mexico.