Edge Zones is very pleased to announce this year’s A.I.R. recipient is Quintín Rivera Toro . The Artist Residency Program offers short residencies to selected artists through our international exchange program. This year’s program was held in August. Each residency varies in length according to the artists’ and the project needs. Generally lasting from one to three weeks. In addition to creating and developing their own work, artists share their creative process at Edge Zones with the public through open rehearsals, workshops, and/or artist talks.
“The series "Strong Paintings", expanded through performance, video and installation, are concerned with the philosophical world of language and how it shapes humanity. Words carefully selected, based on their "universality", communicate, through the collapsed canvas, how the meaning of the words expands and contracts with social changes, the passage of time and the validity of the concepts we use in life.
Miami is certainly one of the art capitals of the world. The sheer number of museums and galleries and public murals is impressive. I am a fortunate to have been invited by Charo Oquet, a powerhouse artist whom I have followed for close to two decades. Residing in this art space, with quietness, allows for my creative flow to exist without outside world pressures, while visualizing the art show we are about to put together. This is where I want to be.” - Toro
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Rivera Toro
Quintín Rivera Toro, was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico in 1978. He has a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Hunter College in New York, USA (2001); a B.A. in Communications and cinema, from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus (2007); an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island (2013); and a Ph.D. in Art Production and Research from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in Spain (2019). He has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio. Center, in Johnson, Vermont; the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Ox Bow School of Art, S.A.I.C., in Saugatuck, Michigan; the Mass MoCA Studios and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. The New York Times has called Quintín's work “Impressive contemporary art”, and he was named by Refinery 29 as part of the "Top 10 list of rising NYC art stars", in a selection by curator Casey Fremont. In 2023, his “Hard Painting - Futuro" was awarded the Acquisition Prize of the Bassat Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. In 2024 he was invited by the University of Kentucky as a "Visiting Artist" at the College of Arts and Visual Studies; and exhibited at the MECA Fair in the Dominican Republic, presenting his performance titled "Ámérica", along with his Strong Paintings. He is currently an artist in Residence at the Edge Zones Art Center.
