About
Gilbert Rios is a contemplative photographer based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. As such, he views everything in the world in a direct and equanimous way. Whether the subject matter is profound or prosaic, what he sees is distilled down to its elements of form — color, line, pattern and shape. The graphic style of Gilbert’s work is informed by his experience as a graphic designer.
Gilbert has shown his photographs at the Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY, and in juried shows at various galleries in the Hudson Valley and Berkshires. In 2019, his series of Germantown streetscapes appeared in “Road to River,” a two-person show at the Tivoli Artists Gallery. Two of his bodies of work, “Barn” and “Color” were inspired by Ellsworth Kelly. In 2015, three bodies of his work appeared in “Dialog,” a two-person show at the Tivoli Artists Gallery. His self-published collection of photographs, Look|See, was exhibited in the Photobook 2015 show at the Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, and then traveled onto the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA.
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Artist Resume
exhibitions: solo+featured
Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY
Dialog (October 2015)
exhibitions: group
2017
Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Equine
Italian American Museum, New York, NY
HeArt of Italy — Il Chiostro Alumni Show (juried exhibition)
Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY
Rock Paper Scissors; Surrealism; Flora and Fauna; Photography (Tribute) Show; Smoke Signals; New Work
2016
Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY
Human Impact: Living in the Anthropocene Age; Abstractions; Essence of Color (juried exhibitions)
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Photobook 2015 show (juried traveling exhibition)
Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY
Hudson Valley; Tivoli: People & Place; Big Sky; Magna; Photography Show; Chiaroscuro: Play on Light and Dark
2015
Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
Photobook 2015 show (juried traveling exhibition)
Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY
Tivoli: People + Place; Photography + Inspirations; Works on Paper; Erotic Art Show; 2015: New Year|New Work
ArtBar Gallery, Kingston, NY
Red, White & Blue
Arts Mid Hudson Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Promise of Spring
Sohn Fine Art Gallery, Lenox, MA
Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition (second place juror’s award)
bodies of work
Barn Series: a tribute to Ellsworth Kelly’s barn photographs
Grid: A parallel between my photographs and my experience as a graphic designer
Thread: How frequently the same color appears among random objects on city streets
Hospital: Photographs with accompanying essay, on the experience of visiting a loved one
Home: How the prosaic can become art in everyday life
publications
“Photographer Stretches the Imagination in ‘Surrealism’” by Barbara Gallo Farrell, Poughkeepsie Journal, July 26, 2017
Look | See, 53 Direct Perceptions of my World, October 2015
“‘Meditation With Camera’ is What Rios Does” by Barbara Gallo Farrell, Poughkeepsie Journal, November 13, 2015
awards
Second Place Jurors’ Award , Sohn Fine Art Gallery, Lenox, MA
Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by Julia Dixon (Director of Berkshire Creative); Susan Cross (Curator at MASS MOCA); Lisa Dorin (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Williams College Museum of Art)
bibliography
Quoted, “Global Connections in Time: CPW25 Gallery’s New Exhibition, ‘A Flavor of Italy’,” by Lisa Rainwater, Global Art Laid Out, March 29, 2013
related experience
Professional Graphic Designer in the corporate world for over twenty years
membership
Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY (2013-2017)
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