PEREZPUIG
Gadiel Rivera Herrera
Focus Section
Booth F2
The Armory Show
Sept 24-27
Gadiel Rivera Herrera’s practice explores points of connection between plants, marine life, animals, and the spiritual realm. As he describes it, his work seeks to understand these forms as “interlocutors between the physical and spiritual worlds, and between past and present.”
In this presentation for the Armory Show, the sea becomes a space where ancestral memory is held and transformed, with submerged histories reimagined through coral, mangrove, marine forms, and new organic life.
Rivera Herrera’s work moves between the natural and the spiritual, allowing bodies, organisms, and landscapes to exist in states of continual transformation. Through ceramics and sculpture, he constructs a language in which the Caribbean seabed and coastal landscape become not only sites of memory, but also of regeneration, continuity, and return.
Presented by PEREZPUIG
rperezpuig@gmail.com
787-376-2362
instagram @perezpuig
Focus Section
Booth F2
The Armory Show
Sept 24-27
Gadiel Rivera Herrera’s practice explores points of connection between plants, marine life, animals, and the spiritual realm. As he describes it, his work seeks to understand these forms as “interlocutors between the physical and spiritual worlds, and between past and present.”
In this presentation for the Armory Show, the sea becomes a space where ancestral memory is held and transformed, with submerged histories reimagined through coral, mangrove, marine forms, and new organic life.
Rivera Herrera’s work moves between the natural and the spiritual, allowing bodies, organisms, and landscapes to exist in states of continual transformation. Through ceramics and sculpture, he constructs a language in which the Caribbean seabed and coastal landscape become not only sites of memory, but also of regeneration, continuity, and return.
Presented by PEREZPUIG
rperezpuig@gmail.com
787-376-2362
instagram @perezpuig
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
BIO
Gadiel Rivera Herrera was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he currently maintains his studio. He studied ceramics and sculpture at the San Germán Campus of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico and later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan. He has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions in Puerto Rico and abroad.
From 2023 to 2025, his work was included in Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Puerto Rico Negrx at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico; El Arte como re-existencia: lo Afropuertorriqueño at the Museo de Arte, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, following its first presentation at the Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Río Piedras Campus; Alto, ancho, fondo at the Museo de Arte Francisco Oller; Marcas del mar at PérezPuig; La Piel Muda el Tiempo at Hidrante; and Walk on Water at the Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, La Puntilla, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
He was selected for the 2024 Artist Fellowship awarded by the Latin Art Forum. He was also the first Afro-Puerto Rican artist to receive a fellowship from the Darryl Chappell Foundation, which supported an artist residency at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico from 2022 to 2023. At the conclusion of the residency, he presented his project Mar adentro, historias profundas at the museum’s Cecilia Orta Allende Gallery.
His other exhibitions include La Quema, presented by PérezPuig; About Clay at PérezPuig; Small Favors at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Paréntesis 25 años at Corredor Afro in Loíza; Barro 11 at Art Room in San Juan; and the Trienal de Arte de Espiritualidad Afro-Antillana y Caribeña: Pa’ los Santos at Casa Escuté in Carolina. He received the Lexus Grant for his project Asientos de Negros (2006), presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico in 2007. He was also part of Paréntesis, ocho artistas negros contemporáneos, presented at the Museo del Arsenal de la Puntilla in San Juan and subsequently at multiple venues throughout the Puerto Rican archipelago.
In 2023, Rivera Herrera was named Artist of the Year by the Darryl Chappell Foundation and selected as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. He has led artistic experiences for students from elementary through university level across a range of academic institutions, as well as for adults through community-based projects. From 2015 to 2022, he taught introductory ceramics and wheel-throwing courses through the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
BIO
Gadiel Rivera Herrera was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he currently maintains his studio. He studied ceramics and sculpture at the San Germán Campus of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico and later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan. He has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions in Puerto Rico and abroad.
From 2023 to 2025, his work was included in Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Puerto Rico Negrx at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico; El Arte como re-existencia: lo Afropuertorriqueño at the Museo de Arte, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, following its first presentation at the Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Río Piedras Campus; Alto, ancho, fondo at the Museo de Arte Francisco Oller; Marcas del mar at PérezPuig; La Piel Muda el Tiempo at Hidrante; and Walk on Water at the Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, La Puntilla, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
He was selected for the 2024 Artist Fellowship awarded by the Latin Art Forum. He was also the first Afro-Puerto Rican artist to receive a fellowship from the Darryl Chappell Foundation, which supported an artist residency at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico from 2022 to 2023. At the conclusion of the residency, he presented his project Mar adentro, historias profundas at the museum’s Cecilia Orta Allende Gallery.
His other exhibitions include La Quema, presented by PérezPuig; About Clay at PérezPuig; Small Favors at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Paréntesis 25 años at Corredor Afro in Loíza; Barro 11 at Art Room in San Juan; and the Trienal de Arte de Espiritualidad Afro-Antillana y Caribeña: Pa’ los Santos at Casa Escuté in Carolina. He received the Lexus Grant for his project Asientos de Negros (2006), presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico in 2007. He was also part of Paréntesis, ocho artistas negros contemporáneos, presented at the Museo del Arsenal de la Puntilla in San Juan and subsequently at multiple venues throughout the Puerto Rican archipelago.
In 2023, Rivera Herrera was named Artist of the Year by the Darryl Chappell Foundation and selected as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. He has led artistic experiences for students from elementary through university level across a range of academic institutions, as well as for adults through community-based projects. From 2015 to 2022, he taught introductory ceramics and wheel-throwing courses through the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
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Gadiel Rivera Herrera, lleva un diálogo constante entre el mar y su obra. Al igual que Olokun nos ha navegado a las profundidades, no del océano sino de nuestro ser. Ejemplo de ello lo fue su pasada muestra “Mar Adentro, Historias Profundas” donde nos recuerda el mar como lecho de millones de cuerpos esclavizados y el océano, un lugar de memoria o de resistencia. Sus cerámicas a veces nos evocan esos extraños mundos que conviven en, sobre y dentro del mar que nacen de su imaginario surrealista provenientes de investigacione antropológicas, creencias y vivencias personales. En otras ocasiones sus obras sobre papel, ricas en medios mixtos y transparencias, nos recuerdan nuestra condición de isla y archipiélago, unos espacios de conexión a través del mar.
-Texto por Edwin Velazquez
Exhibit “Walk on Water”
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1. Gadiel Rivera Herrera
“Descanso”
Cerámica, underglaze - esmalte, stain
10" x 14.5" x 9.5"
2026
$7,000
2. Gadiel Rivera Herrera
“ Familia”
Cerámica
15" x 10" x 8"
2026
$8500
2. Gadiel Rivera Herrera
“ En lo profundo”
Cerámica
7.5" x 9.5" x 8"
2024-2026
$3500
4. Gadiel Rivera Herrera
Cerámica
15" x 15" x 1/2"
2026
$2500 c/u
(habrán 3 y con colores añadidos)
5. Gadiel Rivera Herrera
“ Quién ve”
Cerámica, pintura bajo relieve, óxido, esmalte
13.5" x 8" x 5"
2025
$6500
6. Gadiel Rivera Herrera
“ Memorias ”
Cerámica, Pintura bajo relieve, pigmento, óxido, esmalte
15.25" x 7.5" x 4.5"
2025
$6500
Kiván Quiñones Beltrán
Focus Section
Booth F2
The Armory Show
Sept 24-27
Focus Section
Booth F2
The Armory Show
Sept 24-27
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
Y yo ya no soy yo, 2026
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48 × 32 in
$8,000
Y yo ya no soy yo, 2026
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48 × 32 in
$8,000
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
Spirit Sun (Painting for my Mother), 2026
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48 × 32 in
$8,000
Spirit Sun (Painting for my Mother), 2026
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48 × 32 in
$8,000
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
Al no ser un día cualquiera, 2026
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48 × 32 in
$8,000
Al no ser un día cualquiera, 2026
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48 × 32 in
$8,000
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
Self Portrait (Navegante Fragmentado), 2026
Found objects
14 × 14 in
$2,500
Self Portrait (Navegante Fragmentado), 2026
Found objects
14 × 14 in
$2,500
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN“El cuarto piso de una isla”
Gouache and tempera on cotton
11” x 14”
2026
$3500
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
“El cuarto piso de una isla II”
Gouache and tempera on cotton
11” x 14”
2026
$3500
“El cuarto piso de una isla II”
Gouache and tempera on cotton
11” x 14”
2026
$3500