PEREZPUIG
Gadiel Rivera Herrera/Kiván Quiñones Beltrán
The Armory Show
Sept 24-27
Walk on Water II
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Presented by PEREZPUIG
rperezpuig@gmail.com
787-376-2362
instagram @perezpuig
The Armory Show
Sept 24-27
Walk on Water II
Presented by PEREZPUIG
rperezpuig@gmail.com
787-376-2362
instagram @perezpuig
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
“Descanso”
Cerámica, underglaze - esmalte, stain
10" x 14.5" x 9.5"
2026
“Descanso”
Cerámica, underglaze - esmalte, stain
10" x 14.5" x 9.5"
2026
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
“El cuarto piso de una isla I”
Gouache and tempera on cotton
11” x 14”
2026
Gouache and tempera on cotton
11” x 14”
2026
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
“ Familia”
Cerámica
15" x 10" x 8"
2026
$8500
“ Familia”
Cerámica
15" x 10" x 8"
2026
$8500
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
“Al no ser un dia cualquiera”
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48” x 32”
2026
“Al no ser un dia cualquiera”
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48” x 32”
2026
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
“Y yo ya no soy yo”
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48” x 32”
2026
“Y yo ya no soy yo”
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48” x 32”
2026
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
“Spirit Sun” (Painting for my mother)
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48” x 32”
2026
“Spirit Sun” (Painting for my mother)
Gouache, vinyl emulsion and modeling paste on collected fabrics mounted on wood panel
48” x 32”
2026
KIVÁN QUIÑONES BELTRÁN
“Sabernos y desaparecer”
Gouache and modeling paste on polyester
5” x 7”
2026
“Sabernos y desaparecer”
Gouache and modeling paste on polyester
5” x 7”
2026
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
“ En lo profundo”
Cerámica
7.5" x 9.5" x 8"
2024-2026
“ En lo profundo”
Cerámica
7.5" x 9.5" x 8"
2024-2026
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
15" x 15" x 1/2"
Cerámica
2026
Cerámica
2026
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
15" x 15" x 1/2"
Cerámica
2026
15" x 15" x 1/2"
Cerámica
2026
KIVÁN QUIÑONES BELTRÁN
“Umbral”
Gouache and modeling paste on collected fabric
30” x 44”
2026
“Umbral”
Gouache and modeling paste on collected fabric
30” x 44”
2026
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
“El cuarto piso de una isla II”
Gouache and tempera on cotton
11” x 14”
2026
Gouache and tempera on cotton
11” x 14”
2026
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
“ Quién ve”
Cerámica, pintura bajo relieve, óxido, esmalte
13.5" x 8" x 5"
2025
“ Quién ve”
Cerámica, pintura bajo relieve, óxido, esmalte
13.5" x 8" x 5"
2025
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
“ Memorias ”
Cerámica, Pintura bajo relieve, pigmento, óxido, esmalte
15.25" x 7.5" x 4.5"
2025
“ Memorias ”
Cerámica, Pintura bajo relieve, pigmento, óxido, esmalte
15.25" x 7.5" x 4.5"
2025
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN“Self portrait” (Navegante Fragmentado)
Found objects
14” x 14”
2026
“Hablar con las sombras de 1am - 4am”
Gouache on tempera on cotton mounted on board
6” x 7.5”
2026 (Marseille)
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
“Mi cabeza en aquel otro lugar”
Gouache on tempera on cotton mounted on board
6” x 7.5”
2026 (Marseille)
“Mi cabeza en aquel otro lugar”
Gouache on tempera on cotton mounted on board
6” x 7.5”
2026 (Marseille)
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
Cerámica,
14" x 9.5" x 5"
2026
Cerámica,
14" x 9.5" x 5"
2026
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
GADIEL RIVERA HERRERA
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.
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.
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.
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”
KIVÁN QUINONES BELTRÁN
link to CV
BIO
Kiván Quiñones (b. 1997 Santurce, Puerto Rico) obtained a BA in Communications from the Universidad Sagrado Corazón in Santurce, Puerto Rico (2020). He realizes works from West African fabric, animal skulls, brooms, acrylic paint, gouache, candles, chalk, sand, river dirt, seawater, oil pastels, and bed fitters, among many other elements from his ancestral and present self, to "Redefine the language of found objects to the point that we can use them as portals."
He has been an artist in residence L’Artocarpe in Guadeloupe (2025) in The Macedonia Institute in Upstate NY (2024) and at the Alfonso Arana Foundation, in Spain/Paris (2023). Among his most recent solo exhibitions are: Arpa Art Fair, PerezPuig Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sueños que me alcanzan al despertar, PérezPuig, San Juan, PR (2025); Everything I had but couldn't keep, Recinto Cerra, San Juan, PR (2023); A Brief Narration of Destruction,El Kilómetro, San Juan PR (2023); Power Figures, Pública, San Juan PR (2022); and They Call Me, Dragon Crab Turtle, St. Louis, MO (2022). His most recent group exhibitions include: Feria Arco, The Ryder Projects (2025), Charismatic Goods, CANADA gallery, NYC (2025), Tribe Caribe, La Habana, Cuba (2025), Llego a mi alma, surgió en mi memorial, Ambar Quijano, CDMX, MX (2025), Reuniones, Fortuna, Lausanne, CH(2024); Beneath the paving stones, STONE/AGE, Los Angeles, CA (2024); and Black Brick Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2023).
link to CV
BIO
Kiván Quiñones (b. 1997 Santurce, Puerto Rico) obtained a BA in Communications from the Universidad Sagrado Corazón in Santurce, Puerto Rico (2020). He realizes works from West African fabric, animal skulls, brooms, acrylic paint, gouache, candles, chalk, sand, river dirt, seawater, oil pastels, and bed fitters, among many other elements from his ancestral and present self, to "Redefine the language of found objects to the point that we can use them as portals."
He has been an artist in residence L’Artocarpe in Guadeloupe (2025) in The Macedonia Institute in Upstate NY (2024) and at the Alfonso Arana Foundation, in Spain/Paris (2023). Among his most recent solo exhibitions are: Arpa Art Fair, PerezPuig Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sueños que me alcanzan al despertar, PérezPuig, San Juan, PR (2025); Everything I had but couldn't keep, Recinto Cerra, San Juan, PR (2023); A Brief Narration of Destruction,El Kilómetro, San Juan PR (2023); Power Figures, Pública, San Juan PR (2022); and They Call Me, Dragon Crab Turtle, St. Louis, MO (2022). His most recent group exhibitions include: Feria Arco, The Ryder Projects (2025), Charismatic Goods, CANADA gallery, NYC (2025), Tribe Caribe, La Habana, Cuba (2025), Llego a mi alma, surgió en mi memorial, Ambar Quijano, CDMX, MX (2025), Reuniones, Fortuna, Lausanne, CH(2024); Beneath the paving stones, STONE/AGE, Los Angeles, CA (2024); and Black Brick Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2023).
