Ricky Vior
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BIO
Ricky Vior was born in Argentina, studied at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, and now lives in the United States. His work draws from the subtle poetry of everyday life, seen through the perspective of someone moving between cultures, one foot in memory, the other in new terrain. His narratives explore the themes of belonging, misalignment, transformation, and the ongoing negotiation of identity.
Working with paper collage, acrylic, spray paint, and construction materials such as concrete, sand, wood, and water, Vior blurs the boundaries between art and utility. By choosing materials gathered from hardware stores, job sites, and domestic repair, he challenges the notion that art must rely on precious resources or institutional approval. Creation becomes direct, accessible, and built from the same elements that hold up homes and cities.
His practice expands the idea of immigration not only as a movement between countries, but as a universal state of becoming. All of us are shifting, adapting, learning how to live inside worlds that were here before us.
We are all immigrants to something: to a place, to a language, to a life not yet fully ours.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is rooted in everyday life, small gestures, ordinary objects, and the quiet struggle of learning to belong somewhere new. As an immigrant, I stand between two languages, two histories, two versions of myself. That tension shapes my narratives.
I work with materials that hold weight: paper, paint, spray, but also concrete, sand, wood, and water, the same things used to build houses, sidewalks, and new beginnings. These materials refuse hierarchy. They argue that art is not a privilege of institutions or rare supplies, but something anyone can touch, lift, mix, stain, or rebuild.
My work is a process of searching, adapting, mispronouncing, rebuilding, and trying again tomorrow. A bridge between what I left and what I am still becoming.
I see immigration as more than movement between countries. It is a way of evolving, shifting through languages, systems, eras, and technologies. Today, as rapid change redraws what it means to be human, we all stand in transition. One foot in what we know, the other stepping toward what we don’t yet understand. My work holds that tension, fragile but structural, nostalgic but forward-leaning. Because in a way, we’re all immigrants to the future.
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 — Art Basel, Miami, Florida
2021 — 12 Gallery, Miami, Florida
2019 — Art Fair Asia, Fukuoka, Japan
2018 — Spotteart Gallery, New York, NY
2016 — Gallery Nights, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 — Hotel As, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 — ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 — ArteBA Barrio Joven, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 — ThisIsNotAGallery, Miami, Florida
2009 — ThisIsNotAGallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Special Projects
2010 — Founder of TINAG (This Is Not A Gallery), Buenos Aires
2011–2013 — TINAG invited to ArteBA, Argentina
2013 — “Highways,” cultural activation with Converse, Mexico
2013 — “Donate Your Shadow,” public intervention with Converse, São Paulo
