Raúl de Nieves

– Casa Wabi 2025

Community Project

A collaborative project was developed with resident artist Cameron Clayborn, unfolding through a variety of artistic approaches. Initially, plant and tree shadows were used as a form of composition—capturing a performative movement that cannot be controlled, yet can be recorded. On a large sheet of paper, students from the San José Manialtepec Technical Secondary School traced these shadows with shapes and colors, which then served as inspiration to continue developing a collective mural. Poetry readings were also held, encouraging participants to create and share their own literary pieces. In this way, *In the Light of Innocence* became a collective artistic experience, blending elements from various disciplines and resulting in both personal and shared expressions.

Log-Piece

Earth and Hand
2025
Fired clay, high-fire glaze
Variable dimensions

Days of Wonder
2025
Fired clay

Mexico

Michoacán, 1983

Raúl de Nieves is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician, whose wide-ranging practice investigates notions of beauty and transformation. De Nieves’ visual symbolism draws on both classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to create his own unique mythology. Through processes of accumulation and adornment, the artist transforms readily available materials into spectacular objects, which he then integrates into immersive narrative environments.

Recent solo institutional exhibitions include *Entre las manos del tiempo*, Morán Morán, Mexico City, MX (2024); *imagine you are here*, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2023); *A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder…*, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2023); *The Treasure House of Memory*, ICA Boston, Boston, MA (2021); *Eternal Return & the Obsidian Heart*, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL (2021); and *Reemerge the Zero Begins Your Life, Eternal is Your Light*, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2020). De Nieves has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at Hauser & Wirth, The Highline, MoMA PS1, the 2017 Whitney Biennial, K11 Foundation, Documenta 14, Performa 13, ICA Philadelphia, The Watermill Center, The Kitchen, Artist’s Space, and numerous other venues. His work is included in public collections at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

De Nieves was born in 1983, in Michoacán, Mexico and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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