George Rivera, Ph.D.
(Short C.V. 2000 - 2005)

EDUCATION

1972	Doctorate of Philosophy, Sociology State University of New York
1968	Master of Arts, Sociology University of Houston
1966	Bachelor of Arts, Psychology University of Houston

HONORS AND AWARDS

2006	Senior Fulbright Specialist Award, Instituto de Arte de Medellin, Medellin, Colombia
2005	Reconocimiento Award, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Xochimilco, Mexico
2003	Senior Fulbright Specialist Award, Escuela de San Carlos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, October 5 - October 24, 2003
	University of Colorado Ethnic Minority Affairs Award, University of Colorado
2002	Senior Fulbright Specialist Award (2002-2007)
	Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, State of Colorado, Colorado Council on the Arts
2001	Ambassador For Peace Award, The Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace

EXHIBITIONS

INTERNATIONAL SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997	Chicano Retrospective, Corriente Alterna , Lima, Peru

1996	Una Mirada Digital Al Desnudo, Galeria Dulcinea, Mexico City

INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005	Enounters/Encuentros, Spanish, Mexican, and Chicano Artists in Dialogue, Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
	Encounters/Encuentros, Spanish, Mexican, and Chicano Artists in Dialogue, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Xochimilco, Mexico
	WITNESS: RED & BLUE STATES, Galería de Arte Fotográfico Melitón Rodriguez, Instituto de Artes de Medellín, Medellin, Colombia
	Common Wounds Jad Salman Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine
	Arte Chicano: una Propuesta Grafica, Galeria Carlos Olachea Teatro Municipal in La Paz, Mexico
	Imagen y Lenguaje, Centro Cultural Roger de Conynck, La Paz, Mexico
	Encounters/Encuentros, Spanish, Mexican, and Chicano Artists in Dialogue, La Paz, Mexico
	Encounters/Encuentros, Spanish, Mexican, and Chicano Artists in Dialogue, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Xochimilco, Mexico

2004	Common Wounds, International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine
	3rd Lessedra World Art Print Annual, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria

2003	TO BE & NOT TO BE, Casa Bordas, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Taxco, Mexico
	AFTER THE FALL, Casa De La Cultura, Oaxaca, Mexico
	DEATH & OTHER EXITS, Instalacion en Coordinacion de informacion y Rel. Publicas del Estado, Tlaxcala, Mexico
	Dream Makers, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Xochimilco, Mexico
	Los Que Hacen Los Suenos, Metro Tacubaya, El Metro, Un Espacio Para La Cultura, Mexico City
	Arte del Libro, Galena Rancho de Comate Cuitoico, Tenango, Mexico
	Arte del Libro, Galeria Rancho de Comate Cuitolco, Tenango, Mexico Springs, Colorado 2002
	Death And Memory, House of Culture, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

2002	Synapse, Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru

2001	Muerte Sin Fronteras: Imagenes de Colorado EE.UU./Death Without Borders, Teatro Jose Peon Contreras/Images from Colorado, USA. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
	Salsa Y Santos, Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
	Borderlands, Exhibition Hall of Russian Society of Artists, Khabarovsk, Russia (upcoming in September, 2001)

2000	ARTE Y MUERTE, Sala De Exposiciones, Casa Tlaxcala, Representacion del Gobierno de Tlaxcala, Mexico City
	Exposicion Pictoria, Galeria del Restaurante Bananas, Puerto Escondido

LOCAL/REGIONAL/ EXHIBITIONS
2005	Never Leaving Aztlan, Museo de las Americas, Denver, Colorado
	New Millennial Guernica: Antiwar Art by Chicanos/Latinos, Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC) Gallery, Denver, Colorado
	Triumph of our Communities, Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC), Denver, Colorado
	Encounters/Encuentros, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
	War, Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, Colorado
	Milagros, Online Exhibition, http://maxiboydmilagros.blogspot.com/

2004	Encounters, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
	Serie 2004, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
	Perceptions of Christ/Images of Faith, Emmanuel d'Alzon Library, Assumption College, Worester, MA

2003	Art & ECOLOGY, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
	HOLA, GLENWOOD SPRINGS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Glenwood Springs, CO
	Borderlands, CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, Denver, CO
	DE COLORES, Hispanic Cultural Festival, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, Albuquerque, New Mexico
	SHOW DE LAS AMERICAS, Kahnak Fine Arts Gallery, Carbondale, Colorado
	Chucas y Chucos, Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC) Gallery, Denver, CO
	The Spirit of Frida Kahlo, Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC) Gallery, Denver, CO
	Understanding La Gente Through Art, The UNC Mari Michener Gallery, Greeley, CO
	Matrixes, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Denver, CO
	New Matrixes, O'Sullivan Gallery, Regis College, Denver, CO

2002	Day of the Dead, Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado
	Artists of Choice, Art Students League, Denver, Colorado
	Let's Rock! The Rock and Roll Art Show, Chicano Humanities and Arts Council Gallery, Denver, Colorado
	Death Without Borders, Steam Plant, Salida, Colorado
	Four Person Show, Freemont Center for the Arts, Canyon City, Colorado
	Death Without Borders, Montrose Pavilion, Montrose, Colorado
	Death Without Borders, Given Institute, Aspen, Colorado
	Borderlands, Glenwood Center for the Arts, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
	CU Department of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit, Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, Colorado
	Of Work and Earth, Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, Colorado
	Fiesta! The Art of Mexican Celebration, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado

2001	Art & Ecology: A Binational Exhibition, Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
	Neighborhood Artists Exhibition, Highland Neighborhood SHOWCASE, Rocky Mountain SER Building, Denver, Colorado
	The Adventures of Cholo, Vato, and Pano, Tointon Gallery for the Visual Arts, Greeley, Colorado

2000	Days of the Dead: Aztec Adventures of Cholo, Vato, and Pano, CU Heritage Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
	Days of the Dead: Aztec Adventures of Cholo, Vato, and Pano, Koshare Indian Museum, La Junta, Colorado (with Tony Ortega)
	Days of the Dead: Aztec Adventures of Cholo, Vato, and Pano, Ft. Morgan Museum, Ft. Morgan, Colorado (with Tony Ortega)
	Y TU K?, Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Denver, Colorado
	Disability & Art, VSA Arts of Colorado, Arts & Accessibility: Renewing the Challenge of the ADA, Sibel Wolle Fine Arts Building, Boulder, Colorado

PUBLICATIONS

• Rivera, George, "Marginal Identity & The Taller Documentacion Visual," in Antonio Salazar, Taller Documentacion Visual, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2005, pp. 27-28.
• Rivera, George, "Dualidad," in Gary Keller, Amy Phillips, Craig Smith and Marilyn Szabo, Triumph of our Communities, Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2005, p. 128.
• Rivera, George, "Ethnomemory," in Gary Keller, Amy Phillips, Craig Smith and Marilyn Szabo, Triumph of our Communities, Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2005, p. 164.
• Rivera, George, "Identity in the Americas," Essay for Exhibition entitled "Land, Peoples And Identities," Al-Kahf Gallery, Bethlehem, Palestine.
• Rivera, George, "Encuentros/Encounters: New Millennial Perspectives in Art/Encuentros/Encounters: El Arte Y Las Nuevas Perspectivas Millenarias," essay in Encuentros catalogue, pp. 7-11.
• Rivera, George, "Arte de Pedagogia," Difusion, Vol. 1 No. 5 (October 2004), p. 74.
• Rivera, George, "The Serie Project: La Continuacion de la Tradicion del Grabado en el Arte Chicano," Departmento de Pintura, Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, Arte Chicano catalogue essay (2003).
• Rivera, George, "Border As Liminal Space," essay, Borderlands catalogue. Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, Colorado (2003).
• Rivera, George, "El Grabado en Arte Chicano," DIFUSION. Vol. 1, No. 15 (November 2003), pp. 74-79.
• Rivera, George, "Arte e Ecologia: On the Social Ecology of Place," Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art catalogue (2003), p. 16.
• Rivera, George, "Identidades del arte en el estado de Colorado," Los que hacen los suenos exhibition catalogue essay, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Xochimilco, Mexico, 2003.
• Rivera, George, The Serie Project: Breaking The Walls of The Artworld, in Gary Keller (ed.), Contemporary Chicano and Chicana Art, web publication, http://latinoartcommunity.org/community/LAC.html
• Rivera, George, "El Grabado en Arte Chicano: El Proyecto Serie," DIFUSION, Mexico City, journal published by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
• Rivera, George, "The Serie Project: Breaking The Walls of The Artworld", in Gary Keller (ed.), Contemporary Chicano and Chicana Art (Tuscon: Bilingual Press, forthcoming).
• Rivera, George, "Another View Of Mexican Art," Mexican Art exhibition catalogue essay Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2003.
• Rivera, George, "Arte Chicano en Colorado," DIFUSION de la academia y la cultura, DIFUSION (Vol. 1, No.9) February 2002, pp. 44-48, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Rivera, George, "A Chicano Response to Gauguin," Fiesta! The Art of Mexican Celebration catalogue, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, essay in catalogue, 2001.

REVIEWS

• Pauline Rivera, "'Who Am I?' delivers a clear message," Books y autores review, La Voz Nueva, January 12, 2005.
• Mary Butler, "Public's Trash, Students' Treasure Art Exhibit Meant to Raise Awareness of Local Litter," The Daily Camera, June 20, 2003.
• Arturo Fuentes, "Universidades de Colorado," DIFUSION, Vol. 1 No. 14 (agosto 2003), pp. 75-79.
• "Despues de la caida," El Imparcial, November 7, 2003, p. 4E, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• "Expo pictorica del Colectivo ARTNAUTS," El Grafico, November 7, 2003, p. 16, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• "La muerte asemeja una caida, y en ella se eleva una sola voz - Despues de la caida, expo pictorica del colectivo ARTNAUTS," Rotativo, November 7, 2003, p. 20, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• "Mostraran arte colectivo con vision 'Despues de la caida,'" Tiempo, November 7, 2003, p. 31, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• "Los artistas de EU se estan cansando de la Guerra en Irak: George Rivera," Sintesis, December 1, 2003, p. 2, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
• "Expone George Rivera imagines de la muerte," Sintesis, November 1, 2003, p. 9, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
• "Artistas orginarios de Colorado, EU que exponen en prensa de Gobierno," Sintesis, November 1, 2003, p. 2, Tiaxcala, Mexico.
• "George Rivera: Arte Internacional," DIFUSION de la academia y la cultura, December, 2002, pp. 25-29, Mexico City, Mexico.
• "Muerte y memoria: imagenes de Colorado, EU" Muestra plastica, ROTATIVO, Oaxaca, October 31, 2002.
• Inauguran exposicion "Muerte y memoria. Imagenes de Colorado," VOZ E IMAGEN DE OAXACA, NOTICIAS, Oaxaca, October 30, 2003, p. 5A.
• "Muerte y Memoria: imagines de Colorado, EU," hoy a las 20:00 horas en la galleria Rufino Tamayo, ROTATIVO, Cultura, Oaxaca, October 29, 2002, p. 21.
• "Compartir la muerte y el dia muerto con ustedes: Jorge Rivera," ROTATIVO, Cultura, Oaxaca, October 31, 2002, p. 21.
• "Muerte y memoria, Puente cultural con EU para recordar a los muertos," TIEMPO DE OAXACA, October 31, 2002, p. 32.
• "En el centro de la ciudad, artistas norteamericanos presentan un caleidoscopio plastico de la muerte," Diario Yucatan, October 31, 2001, p. 1.
• "El arte plastico, medio de comunicacion entre dos visiones culturales sobre la realidad de la muerte," Diario Yucatan, October 31, 2001, p. 6.
• "Exposicion plastica de artistas de EE.UU. acerca de la muerte," Diario Yucatan, October 27, 2001, p. 1.
• "Encuentran 'fronteras' a la cultura de la muerte," El Mundo Al Dia, October 27, 2001, p. 2D.
• "When Explosions Sound, The Muses Are Not Silent," Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda (Pacific Star), September 22, 2001, p. 3, Khabarovsk, Russia.
• "Border State," Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP Khabarovsk), September 22, 2001, p. 22, Khabarovsk, Russia.
• "Salsa y Santos takes center stage at Glenwood Arts Center," The Glenwood Springs Post Independent, September 7-8, 2001, p. 6-B.
• "George Rivera helps enliven the Salsa y Santos exhibit," The Glenwood Springs Post Independent, August 31-September 1, 2001, p. 11-B-12B.
• "CU-Boulder Celebrates Read Across America Day," Carillion, March 16, 2001, p. 1.
• Frederick L. Silverman, Abbilynn B. Strrrawser, Donna L. Strohauer, and Noel Nevada Manzano, "On the Road with Cholo, Vato, and Pano," Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 6 (February 2001), pp. 330-333.
• "Ortega's art revives the Days of the Dead at the Heritage Center," Coloradan, October 2000, p. 28
• "La Exposicion ARTNAUTS en la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria," DIFUSION, Journal of the National Preparatoria School, Mexico, Septiembre 2000, Ano 2 Vol 1 No. 4, pp. 36-46.