Born 1990. Lives and works in New York City.
Education
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence RI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration, 2013
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
How to be Photosynthetic, Hamiltonian Gallery, 2018
Solo Show, NOVA College, Manassas, VA, 2018
DIY Laser Eye Surgery, Hamiltonian Gallery, DC, 2017
Dinner Party Download, Hillyer Art Space, DC, 2016
Int/er/mission, S/PLI/T Projects, Portland Pataphysical Society, Portland, OR, 2016
Art Fairs
Spring/Break Art Show, NYC Armory Week, New York City, 2017
Satellite Art Show, Miami Basel Week, Miami, FL, 2016
Group Exhibitions
Group Show, Village One Art, New York, NY, 2021
Stretched, Arlington Arts Center, VA, 2021
Transformer Auction, DC, 2019
Hickcock -Cole ART NIGHT, DC, 2019
Contortion, Brentwood Arts Exchange, DC, 2019
Bodymap, Rhizome, DC, 2019
Transformer Auction, Corcoran Museum of Art, DC, 2018
Fellows Converge, Hamiltonian Gallery, DC, 2018
How To:, Pinkard Gallery at MICA, Baltimore , MD, 2018
Testpattern, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, 2018
The Alchemy of the Sex Witch and Other Tales of Love, Olly Olly Gallery, DC, 2018
Night at the Rixey, The Rixey, Arlington, VA, 2017
Transformer Auction, Katzen Center, DC, 2017
Its Still All Up To You, Hamiltonian Gallery, DC 2017
It was all a Dream, Carroll Square Gallery, Hemphill, 2017
WPA Auction, DC, 2017
Light City Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2017
new. now. ,Hamiltonian Gallery, DC, 2016
Collage, Latela Gallery, DC, 2016
Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Gallery, DC, 2016
The End is Located underneath her Third Armpit (if the muscle is flexed), Commune.1 Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2016
Infusion, DC Arts Studios, DC, 2016
Hickock-Cole ART NIGHT, DC, 2015
Hickock-Cole ART NIGHT, DC, 2014
Too Many Cooks Above the Kitchen, Providence, RI, 2014
Hymn #166, Providence, RI, 2014
Illustration Senior Show, Providence, RI, 2013
Teenagers, Providence, RI, 2013
Illustration Department Triennial Show, Providence, RI, 2013
Painting Department Show, Providence, RI, 2013
Accolades
Artist fellowship Program Grant- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 2017
Trawick Prize Semi-Finalist, 2017
Hamiltonian Fellowship, 2016
Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2015
Anderson Ranch Workshop Presidential Scholarship, 2014
Nominated for Yale-Norfolk Program Scholarship, 2012
Selected Press
Hyperallergic, Up close and Personal with Four Sunset Park Artists, Jasmine Liu, 2022
Vogue, Wiederhoeft Resort 2023, Laia Garcia-Furtado, 2022 (Set Design)
Harpers Bazaar, The Emerging Designers to watch from Spring 2023 Fashion Month, Kristen Bateman, 2022 (Set Design)
Fashionista, Wiederhoeft Makes Demi-Couture for the Iconoclastic Princess, Maura Brannigan, 2022 (Set Design)
Washington Post, Review: In the Galleries: Contortion, Mark Jenkins, 2019
Huffington Post, These 90’s Halloween Costumes Will Make You All Kinds of Nostalgic, Kelsey Borreson, 2019
SSSAS Magazine, Rives Wiley ’09: Blending the Surreal, Real, and Virtual, Gummy Nicols and Makeda Malkie, 2019
Washington Post, Review: In the Galleries: How to be Photosynthetic, Mark Jenkins, 2018
Bmore Art, Testpattern Merges the Material and the Virtual, Mai Sennaar, 2018
Washington Post, Review: In the Galleries: Putting Flat Art into Perspective, Mark Jenkins, 2017
Huffington Post, More Than You Can Chew: Priorities for Armory Art Week, Natalie Hegret, 2017
DIRT, From Satellite to Spring/Break: DIRT talks with Rives Wiley about Art Fairs, Ikram Lakhdhar, 2017
Vice: The Creators Project, “The Most Uncanny Installations at Miami Art Week,” Monica Uszerowicz, 2016
Bmore Art, “Satellite: The Hyper-Emerging Fair,” Suzy Kopf, 2016
Arte Fuse “Revolutionary! Satellite Art Show 2016’s Stellar Second Act,” Audra Lambert 2016
Washington City Paper, “At Hillyer Art Space,” Religion Meets Alternative Reality in Three Artists’ Works,” Erin Devine, 2016
Maake Magazine, Featured Artist: Rives Wiley, December 2015
Lectures and Panels
Artist Talk, Stretched Group Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, 2021
Artist Talk, Contortion Group Exhibition, Washington DC, 2019
Artist Talk, How to Be Photosynthetic Solo Exhibition, Hamiltonian Gallery. Washington DC, 2018
Artist Talk, Testpattern Group Exhibition, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, 2018
Artist Talk, DIY Laser Eye Surgery Solo Exhibition, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC, 2017
Artist Talk, New. Now. Group Exhibition, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC, 2016