Arturo Rivera

Arturo Rivera (15 April 1945 – 29 October 2020) was a Mexican painter based in Mexico City.

In 1979, artist Max Zimmerman saw Rivera's work at the Latin American Institute on Madison Street and invited him to Munich as an assistant teacher at the Kunstakademie.

[3] Rivera participated in international group exhibitions in New York City, Puerto Rico, La Habana, Munich, Medellin, Rome, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, London, Poland and the Nordic countries.

His work is also kept in private art collections, mainly in Mexico City, Houston, New York, Switzerland and Helsinki.

[6] In the words of art critic and historian Carlos Blas Galindo, "There are realities that would not really exist if it were not because Arturo Rivera has painted them.