Rick Rivet
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1949 (age 76–77)
Rick Rivet | |
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| Born | Richard James Rivet 1949 (age 76–77) |
| Education | MFA University of Saskatchewan (1985)[1] |
| Known for | Mixed media, Painting |
| Awards | Eiteljorg Fellowship (1999)[2] |
| Website | http://www.rickrivet.ca/ |
Rick Rivet (born 1949 in Aklavik, Northwest Territories) is a Sahtu–Métis painter living in Canada.[3]
Rivet's family lived both in the country and in town at Aklavik, which was a Métis trading center. Métis have a specific culture with First Nations and European roots. He began school in Aklavik at age seven.[1]
Rivet earned four degrees: his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta in 1972; his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 1980; his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 1985, and Bachelor of Education from the University of Saskatchewan in 1986.[1][3]
Artwork
His art is deeply influenced by ideas of fusion and hybridity of cultures.[4] He works primarily in acrylic on canvas in a style he has referred to as "an expressionist/primitivist approach."[5] In 1999, he was awarded with a Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship.[6] In 2023, Rivet presented a one-person show, Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical, at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.[7]
