Elena del Rivero

{{short description|Spanish artist}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1949}}

| birth_place = Valencia, Spain

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Elena del Rivero (b. 1949 Valencia, Spain){{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/elena-del-rivero/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=3 March 2023}}{{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/27161 |website=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=3 March 2023}} is a Spanish born American artist known for her installations and artist's books. She has lived in the United States since 1991.{{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero |url=https://creative-capital.org/artists/elena-del-rivero/ |website=Creative Capital |access-date=3 March 2023 |language=en}}

Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero {{!}} The Book of Dust |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/738925 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=3 March 2023 |language=en}} the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art,{{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.26224.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=3 March 2023}} and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.{{cite web |title=Marilyn R. Rosenberg |url=https://nmwa.bibliovation.com/app/search/(Elena%20del%20Rivero) |website=NMWA Library & Research Center |access-date=1 March 2023}}

In 2008 the Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibited two of Rivero's installations entitled Home Suite.{{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero: Home Suite at The Corcoran Gallery of Art |url=https://artdaily.cc/news/25229/Elena-del-Rivero--Home-Suite-at-The-Corcoran-Gallery-of-Art#.ZAFKy3bMKUk |website=artdaily |access-date=3 March 2023 |language=English}} In 2015 Rivero received a Joan Mitchell Foundation award.{{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero |url=https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/elena-del-rivero |website=Joan Mitchell Foundation |access-date=3 March 2023 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Supported Artists |url=https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/supported-artists/year/2015 |website=Joan Mitchell Foundation |access-date=3 March 2023 |language=en}} In 2019 Rivero received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Rivero's 2020 installation Elena del Rivero: Home Address was created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. It was shown in multiple locations.{{cite web |title=Home Address |url=https://hispanicsociety.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/home-address/ |website=Hispanic Society of America |access-date=3 March 2023 |date=7 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Elena del Rivero |url=https://riversinstitute.org/publications/elena-del-rivero |website=Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought |access-date=3 March 2023}} Also in 2020 she was a recipient of an Anonymous Was A Woman Award.{{cite web |last1=Greenberger |first1=Alex |title=Vaunted Anonymous Was a Woman Grants Go to Linda Goode Bryant, Chitra Ganesh, and More |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/anonymous-was-a-woman-2020-winners-1234576747/ |website=ARTnews.com |access-date=3 March 2023 |date=18 November 2020}}