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Trained in architecture and advertising, Costa Rican artist Melissa Ríos (b. 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist and thinker. Often occupied with multiple projects at a time, Rios’ art spans the fields of art direction, interior design, product design, furniture, photography, and more. Her paintings and drawings reflect her surreal, dream-like visions, with figures, objects, and abstract elements all overlapping and becoming veils between realms of experience. Rios was selected as an artist-in-residence for the Mark Art Foundation in 2024 and has been featured in Cultured, Galerie Magazine, and Vogue.

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About the artist:

Melissa Ríos works primarily in painting and drawing, mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction. Ríos paints surreal, dream-like visions, seeking to expand her understanding of reality and how it gets represented. Figures, objects, and abstracts overlap and aggregate like veils between realms of experience. Full of emotional charge and presence, her paintings imagine spaces between the physical and metaphysical—as well as imagination and experience.

Melissa Rios was born in 1986 in Costa Rica and lives in Mexico City, Mexico.

Rios has mounted solo exhibitions at JO-HS in New York, NY (2024, 2023) and Cuarto 37 in San José, Costa Rica (2021).

She has participated in group exhibitions at Room57 Gallery in New York, NY (2024); Berry Campbell Gallery in New York, NY (2024); JO-HS in Mexico City, Mexico (2023, 2022); and the Museo Regional de San Ramón in San Ramón, Costa Rica (2022).

Her painting was a finalist for the prestigious Erarta Foundation Prize at Zona MACO in 2023, and she was an artist-in-residence at the Mark Art Foundation in 2024.

Rios has been written about in Cultured, Galerie Magazine, Vogue, and other publications.