Kenny Rivero

Kenny Rivero is a Dominican-American artist based in New York whose practice spans painting, collage, drawing, and sculpture. His work explores the complexity of identity through narrative images, symbolism, and language, often deconstructing Dominican American histories and reassembling them into new visual forms. Engaging themes of fractured narratives of identity, familial expectations, socio-geographic solidarity, race, and gender roles, Rivero draws on cultural influences from salsa, hip-hop, house, jazz, and merengue to Vodun and Santería traditions encountered in his upbringing. His work is held in major public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Pérez Art Museum Miami. Rivero is represented by Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, and Morán Morán, Los Angeles, and is Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Charles Moffett will present Rivero’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery on December 12, 2025.