Artist-in-Residence: July 2, 2022 – August 14, 2022
Nancy Rivera
The Kimball Art Center names Nancy E. Rivera as 2022 Artist-in-Residence. Kimball Art Center’s artist-in-residence program supports artists of diverse ages, backgrounds, and disciplines in the exploration and expansion of their creative practices and the production of new bodies of work.
Supporting Events
July 2
On Display
10 – 5pm
Nancy Rivera’s work is installed in the gallery and available to view starting Saturday, July 2 at 10am.
July 8
Kick-off Party
6 – 8pm
Join us for a meet and greet with Nancy, light refreshments, entertainment, an art activity and a cash bar.
July 9, 16 & 30
Studio Hours
10 – 5pm
Interact with Nancy or watch her work in her studio from 10-5pm on select Saturdays in July.
July 15
Book Club Part 1 (via Zoom)
12 – 1pm
Join us on your Friday lunch hour to discuss the book The Undocumented Americans with Nancy Rivera
July 16
Morning at the Museum
10 – 12pm
Kimball Art Center’s Morning at the Museum offers family-friendly tours to explore current exhibitions.
July 28
Book Club Part 2 (in person)
6 – 8pm
In-person book discussion led by Nancy Rivera at the Kimball Art Center.
August 6
Arts Festival
10 – 6pm
Nancy Rivera will have a pop-up exhibition at the Kimball Arts Festival and will spend time in both the VIP Lounge and a “Studio on Main” booth.
August 10
Artist Panel (via Zoom)
6 – 8pm
In this Artist Panel, Renato Olmedo Gonzalez will moderate, and the artists in conversation will be Francisco Donoso, Ileana Doble Hernandez, and Nancy Rivera.
August 13
Studio Hours
10 – 5pm
Interact with Nancy on her last day in the gallery from 10-5pm on Saturday, August 13.
About Nancy
Nancy Rivera is a visual artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an artist, she works primarily in the fields of photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Her practice is influenced by her dual cultural identity and its effects, such as code-switching, cultural assimilation, and displacement. Her most recent work reflects on her experience as first-generation Mexican American through her own history of migration. She has exhibited nationally in a variety of traditional and non-traditional venues and her work is part of private and public collections. From 2018–2021, she served as board member and vice-chair of the Salt Lake City Art Design Board. She was a 2021 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Leadership Institute Fellow and currently oversees the Visual Arts Program at the Utah Division of Arts & Museums.
Residency
During this residency, Rivera will work on her cross-stitch portrait series and the research behind it. The continuation of that work is a total of 15 self-portraits that trace Rivera’s path through the US immigration process. The source material for this work draws from her family’s archive, which includes government-issued immigration documents from 22 years living as immigrants in the U.S. In this ongoing series of work, Rivera employs passport, green card, and other ID photos to trace the different chapters of her experience through the US immigration process.
