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Jorge F. Rivas-Pérez

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Independent Scholar

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Jorge Rivas is a Los Angeles-based art historian and industrial designer. He is also the Associate Curator for the Design Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and former Curator of Spanish Colonial Art of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros where he organized the exhibitions Devoción Privada: pintura religiosa colonial venezolana en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (2002), and De oficio pintor, arte colonial venezolano, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (2007). Jorge has co-curated exhibitions and published broadly on Spanish Colonial Art and twentieth-century Latin American design, among his recent design projects are Cornelis Zitman: 1947-1957 la década del diseño” (2011) and Interior moderno, muebles diseñados por Miguel Arroyo (2005). He authored, among others, Arte del Período Hispánico Venezolano en la Hacienda Carabobo (1998) and El repertorio clásico en el mobiliario venezolano (2007). Jorge’s design work has been exhibited in several solo and group shows: Maderas de Jorge Rivas, innovación en la tradición (2004), Objetos cotidianos, diseño tridimensional venezolano (2006), and Jorge Rivas, diseño y comunidad (2005). He received his architecture degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, his specialization on industrial design from Universitá degli Studi di Firenze in Florence, and his M.Phil from the Bard Graduate Center, where he is pursuing his Ph.D.