Wayfinders: Work by the Island Steering Committee

Steven Rivera Lopez

About the Artist

Graphic artist, engraver, and printer. Born on June 27, 1991, in Humacao,
Puerto Rico. He studied Graphic Arts and Printing Processes at the UPR
Carolina Campus and Relief Engraving with Professor Martín García Rivera at the UPRRP. In 2020, he joined the La Serigráfica creative screen printing and design workshop, where he develops as an artist and printer. In 2024, he founded Taller La Central, where he currently works as a creative director, designer, and printer.

Artist Statement

In “la gráfica”, the personal and the political are themes I constantly address with the intention of reflecting on issues of identity, nation, and the Puerto Rican colonial condition. It is in the reproduction and repetition of images that a message, a truth, is affirmed. With my prints, I affirm who I am, what I believe, and the truth that inhabits me.

Artist:

Steven Rivera Lopez
Photo of artist Kit MacNeil

Exhibition

Wayfinders: Work by the Island Steering Committee

A Puerto Rican is displayed vertically with Luger pistols printed atop

1ro de marzo
Screenprint
20” x 32”
2020

A graphic seal of a man's head in gold ink on a black paper.

Betances
Screenprint
15” x 15”
2023

A poster like print of two curly headed figures in glasses

Campechada a Victoria
Screenprint
28” x 20”
2024

A man in a broad hat and scarf holds his hand outstretched as if greeting someone far away

Chuito
Screenprint
23” x 16″
2024

A brochure is held against a brick wall

Cuerpos largos con versos rotos / Book of poems in collab with Editorial La Tachuela of Isamar Anzalotta and writer Petra Bravo
Screenprint
2024

A brochure is spread out on leaves

Cuerpos largos con versos rotos / Book of poems in collab with Editorial La Tachuela of Isamar Anzalotta and writer Petra Bravo
Screenprint
2024

The artist holds the print of a bus with the edges of the paper scalloped like a postage stamp

Guagua Santurcina
Screenprint
15” x 20″
2023

A figure in a headdress and glasses dominates a composition reminiscent of ancient coins

Indómita
Relief print on PVC
18″ x 14″
2023

A man stands at a food cart in a composition of yellow, red, and black

La Brega
Screenprint
26″ x 18″
2023

A small cut of a person at their balcony with a Puerto Rican flag

La Espera
Relief print on PVC
4” x 4”
2021

Green screenprints of a protest are wheat pasted on the street.

Ni Corruptos Ni Cobardes
Screenprint
14”x18”
2024