Kenny Rivero, Walk Wit Me, 2021; Hand-Embellished, Signed, and Numbered Limited Edition Print

Kenny Rivero’s paintings, collages, drawings and sculptures explore the complexity of identity through narrative images, language, and symbolism. His creative process deconstructs and reimagines what he perceives as the broken narrative of Dominican-American identity, socio-geographic solidarity, familial expectations, race, and gender roles. Born and raised in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, he is represented by Charles Moffett Gallery, and has work in the public collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem; El Museo del Barrio; The Whitney Museum of American Art; Collection of Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Pérez Art Museum Miami. Charged with fantastic symbolism, Walk Wit Me channels Rivero’s ongoing ruminations on death—a theme that traces back to his personal upbringing in a multi-religious household guided by Catholic, Vodun, and Santeria traditions. Within the work, a ghost and a suited, one-eyed figure, whose head is shrouded in a black