ARTIST PROFILE

Quintin Rivera-Toro

  • Puerto Rico (b. 1978 in Caguas)
  • Currently in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
  • Quintín Rivera Toro lives and works in Caguas, Puerto Rico. He holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design 2013

REPRESENTATION

This Is My Land

This Is My Land

  • 2014

  • The splitting of lumber symbolizes the idea of ownership, claiming the trees, chopping them up for fire wood. While yelling: “This Is My Land” a fellow performer and I claimed to call America our own land while we both were foreigners.

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  • This Is My Land - thumbnail Manda Podere - thumbnail Shush - thumbnail Business As Usual - thumbnail This Is My Island - thumbnail Summer Grid - thumbnail An Unoccupied Space - thumbnail Here We Go - thumbnail Percussions Repercussions - thumbnail The Top One Hundred - thumbnail Percentages - thumbnail My Agenda Is Not Their Agenda - thumbnail A Love Letter - thumbnail Providence - thumbnail The Bridge - thumbnail Work Harder - thumbnail About Speech - thumbnail The Grass Was Greener - thumbnail A Room Full of Doubt - thumbnail Traffic Jam - thumbnail

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    Select Works | 2005 - 2014