Curator's Biography

Marco Rios is an artist who works in sculpture, photography, video, and performance. He received his M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine and his undergraduate degree from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

His work has recently been exhibited at Artists Space, NY; Phantom Sightings, a traveling group exhibition at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art); LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles; Estacion, Tijuana, Mexico; and a two-person exhibit at Simon Preston Gallery, New York. Upcoming exhibitions include Mixed Signals, a traveling exhibition organized by ICI; This is Killing Me, a group exhibition at Mass Moca; and a follow-up solo show at Simon Preston Gallery, New York.

In 2007, he was a recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship. In 2008, he was selected as one of the James Irvine Foundation Visions from the New California awardees, and was only recently awarded an ARC grant from The Durfee Foundation.

Marco Rios lives and works in Los Angeles.