Carlos "Bobby" Rivera (Carlos Cameron Rivera Pérez, b. 2001) is a Puerto Rican visual artist living and working in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. He is currently a third-year Art History student at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
His work encompasses painting, assemblage, intervention of commercial billboards recovered from the metropolitan area, participatory mural, and found objects. He works primarily with enamel, acrylic, oil, graphite, spray paint, and street paper — advertising posters he has been rescuing since 2018 for their density of urban and popular culture. This choice of supports is not coincidental: what others discard becomes a surface to speak about what is often also discarded — exhaustion, everyday violence, desire, tenderness, and Boricua identity in times of crisis.
Among his artistic projects, the participatory mural Son lo mismo, nosotros somos otra cosa (2024) stands out, where the gesture of a kiss in public space becomes a living archive of communal affective resistance. He has exhibited individually at guagua 787 with the 2 Bus Art Exhibition (2024). He is co-founder of ENTUCARA CREATIVO, LLC (2025).
Statement
I paint from what doesn't fit anywhere else. My materials come from the street — posters someone put up and no one looked at, surfaces that already carried stories before I arrived. That's where I work: the violence we normalize, the affection we don't name, the identity we negotiate every day in a country that remains unresolved.
My process is intuitive and urgent. I'm not after the perfect finish but the true gesture — the crooked type, the mark that asks no permission, the color that unsettles. I believe art should be able to live in a gallery and on a neighborhood wall, and that tension is exactly where I want to be.
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