Rives Wiley (b. 1990) is an artist working in New York City. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Wiley's work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Vogue, The Washington Post, Vice: The Creator's Project, The Huffington Post, and Harpers Bazaar. Her solo exhibitions were shown across US and featured in multiple international art fairs. Wiley is a 2016 Hamiltonian Fellow, a recipient of a 2017 DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities Grant, and has been a Trawick Semi- Finalist.
“Wiley's work is fundamentally satirical and attempts to expose how we trap ourselves within the confines of a rectangular frame, influenced by social norms and the dissolution of original expression. Through her work, Wiley reflects the omnipresent influence and toll that such aesthetics have had on our individuality.”
