“I’ve always found that interaction with work really develops a larger conversation with not just yourself, but the making process of how things could be developed.”
Raúl de Nieves
(b. Michoacán, Mexico, 1983)
Raúl de Nieves is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician, whose wide-ranging practice investigates notions of beauty and transformation. De Nieves’ visual symbolism draws on both classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to create his own unique mythology. Through processes of accumulation and adornment, the artist transforms readily available materials into spectacular objects, which he then integrates into immersive narrative environments.
Recent solo institutional exhibitions include and imagine you are here, Baltimore Museum of Art (2023); A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder..., Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington (2023); The Treasure House of Memory, ICA Boston (2021); Eternal Return & the Obsidian Heart, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2021); and Reemerge the Zero Begins Your Life, Eternal is Your Light, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia (2020).
De Nieves has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at Hauser & Wirth, The High Line, MoMA PS1, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, K11 Foundation, Documenta 14, Performa 13, ICA Philadelphia, The Watermill Center, The Kitchen, Artists Space, and numerous other venues. His work is included in public collections at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
De Nieves currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
