• Gabrielle Rivera

    Born and raised in San Jose, California.

    Currently working in Berkeley, California.

  • Education

    2023– University of California Berkeley, B.A., Art Practice

    Relevant Coursework: Social Practice: Critical Site and Context, Global Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Experimental Printmaking, Advanced Screenprinting, Senior Projects, Art and Archive

    2021– Foothill College, AA-T, Art History

    Relevant Coursework: Photography of Multicultural America, History of Western Art: Western Art Prehistory through Early Christianity, History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Introduction to Asian Art, and History of Western Art from the Baroque to Contemporary Art

  • Professional Experience

    2022- Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Art Foundation Internship

    Interned at the foundation for in May and June 2022

    Skills obtained:

    • Basic knowledge of The Museum System

    • Cataloguing and processing archives

    • Photographing archival objects

    • Handling archival objects

    • Describing archival objects

    • Creating a basic finding aid using Excel

    • Basic handling of works on paper

    • Finding and grouping of works for photography

    • Photography of works on paper using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, and camera software

    • Processing of digital photographs (silhouetting and color correction)

    • Cataloguing of works on paper

    • Research on prints by previously unknown makers

    • Inventory of selected drawers of artworks

    • Basic knowledge of eMuseum and WordPress

    • Experience in image editing, namely in Adobe Photoshop around resizing and silhouetting

    • Development of writing and research skills for Instagram and diebenkorn.org with the authorship of a feature in the foundation's From the Basement archival series

    • Experience in creating marketing abstracts for public relations pitches to national newspapers and periodicals

  • Group Exhibitions

    2023- It’s Alive!, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA

    2022- Strain, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA

    2022- Familiar Delusions, Senior Thesis Show, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA

    2021– Memories in Motion: Our Conversations with the Past, Present, & Future, BARE Magazine, Berkeley, CA

    2021– Forms of Femininity, UC Berkeley Girl Up Organization, Berkeley, CA

  • Awards

    2023- Materials Quick Grant, University of California, Berkeley

  • Skills

    Photography

    Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Lightroom

    Adobe Illustrator Media

    Canon Digital SLR Cameras

    Manual Film Camera

    Analog Black and White

    Analog Archiving

    Silver Gelatin Printing

    Digital Capture/Conversion

    Digital + Analog Archiving

    Commercial Retouching

    Inkjet Printing, Epson

    Printmaking

    Screenprinting

    Relief printing

    Cyanotype Prints