Photograph at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA by Andria Lo
SHERWIN RIO (b. Jacksonville, FL) is an interdisciplinary artist making site-specific and research-based metaphors addressing colonization, historical public amnesia, and intergenerational story-telling through a Filipinx/American lens in the fields of sculpture, installation, video, performance, and audio.
Rio has exhibited and performed as a solo and collaborative artist throughout the U.S. in venues such as: Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, CA), La Becque (Switzerland), de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA), Carlsbad Museum of Art (NM), San Jose State University (CA), Portland State University (OR), Dominican University (San Rafael, CA), University of Northern Colorado (Greeley), Human Resources (Los Angeles, CA), Torpedo Factory (Alexandria, VA), Dream Farm Commons (Oakland, CA), and SOMArts Cultural Center (San Francisco, CA).
He has received awards including a 2022 Research Residency and Solo Exhibition at the David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street Foundation, a 2019 Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2019 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, the 2018 Ella King Torrey Award for Innovation & Excellence in the Arts, and the 2017 Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship Award. Additionally he has been artist-in-residence at Josephine Sculpture Park (Frankfort, KY) and Walkaway House (North Adams, MA).
Rio received a dual MFA in Studio Art & MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from San Francisco Art Institute in 2019 and a BFA in Printmaking with a minor in Art History from the University of Florida in 2014.
Rio lives in Brooklyn and works between New York City and San Francisco.
EMAIL: sherwinrioart(at)gmail(dot)com
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