Quintín Rivera Toro was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico in 1978. He holds a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Hunter College, New York – 2001; a B.A. in Communications and Film Studies, from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras – 2007; an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island – 2013; and Ph.D. in Art Production and Investigation with the Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia in Spain – 2019.

He has been awarded the German DAAD travel grant; a full fellowship for the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, Vermont; a studies grant from the National Academy of Design in New York City; he has been an artist in residence at the Ox Bow School of Art, S.A.I.C., in Saugatuck, Michigan; an intern at the Chinati Museum in Marfa, Texas; Has studied with the Escuela Internacional de Teatro de América Latina y el Caribe (E.I.T.A.L.C.) in Cuernavaca, Mexico; he was awarded an Achievement Scholarship from the Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany; an Individual Artist Grant as well as a New Genres Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts; he received a Sylvia Leslie Young Herman Scholarship Award and Academic Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design; The New York Times has called Quintín’s work “Striking Contemporary Art”; and was selected for Refinery 29 ‘s “Top 10 list of rising NYC art stars” as curated by Casey Fremont; From 2017-2019 he has was selected as the artist in residence at the University of El Turabo, in Gurabo, Puerto Rico; in recent years he has received full fellowships for the Studios at Mass Moca residency, as well as the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In 2023 one of his “Hard Paintings” was awarded the Bassat Collection Acquisition Prize during the Urvanity Art Fair in Madrid, Spain.

Quintín’s artwork is in the permanent collections of the following institutions:

Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida

Museo del Barrio, New York, New York

Nova Scotia University Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan

Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Puerto Rico

Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico

Museo y Centro de Estudios Humanísticos de la U.A.G.M., Gurabo, Puerto Rico

Museo de Arte Caguas, Puerto Rico

Campus de la Universidad Ana G. Méndez,Cupey, Puerto Rico

Campus de la Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Gurabo, Puerto Rico