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2 QUINTÍN RIVERA TORO BUSINESS AS USUAL BUSINESS AS USUAL is an exhibition of various works including site-specific installations, live performance, video simulcast, photography and sculpture by Latin American Contemporary artist Quintín Rivera-Toro. Recent social phenomenon in the housing markets have estranged people from their former homes, but also the trauma that stems from the loss of their previous positions in society, Rivera-Toro notes. With BUSINESS AS USUAL, I hope to use Yellow Peril s new façade as a platform for socially critical observations and articulate my outsider point-of-view as an artist from a foreign land while engaging with the general public about experiencing an economicallychallenged community like Olneyville. Rivera-Toro is known for his site-specific art installations and performances. As an artist with an activist slant, he creates work that communicates and engages with its audience. His most recent sitespecific installation was SUMMER GRID: A RELATIONAL PROJECT, which was comprised of a large arrangement of over two dozen kiddie pools and backyard waterworks in The Plant Courtyard adjacent to Yellow Peril Gallery. SUMMER GRID was recently chosen as the first 3-D work of art to promote the I BUY ART initiative in Providence. The jury included Mayor Angel Taveras and arts professionals assembled by the City of Providence Arts, Culture + Tourism.

3 QUINTÍN RIVERA TORO (b. 1978) Caguas, Puerto Rico Quintín Rivera Toro was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico in He holds a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Hunter College, New York and a B.A. in Communications and Film Studies, from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras He currently pursues his M.F.A. Degree in the Sculpture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. In his native Puerto Rico, Quintín was awarded The Lexus Grant for artists. His public art project Un espacio libre, originally shown in his hometown of Caguas, was invited to travel to El Museo del Barrio for the S-Files biennial and the art fair PINTA, both in NYC; it was also shown in the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and with F.I.S.T. ART in Dorado. His photographic work received an Honorable Mention from Puerto Rico s Museum of Contemporary Art and a First Prize award from the University of Sagrado Corazón s Contemporary Photography Contest, in San Juan. He co-founded and worked as the Director of ÁREA, lugar de proyectos in Caguas. Quintín has been awarded with the DAAD German Academic Exchange Travel Grant, with which he travelled to Cologne and Berlin in Germany. He has received full fellowships for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson Vermont and the National Academy of Design in New York City; he has also been an artist in residence at the Ox Bow School of Art, S.A.I.C. in Saugatuck, Michigan. Quintín also worked as an intern at the Chinati Museum in Marfa, Texas, and he studied with the Escuela Internacional de Teatro de América Latina y el Caribe (E.I.T.A.L.C.) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His work was selected by Zona MACO art fair as a focused work and displayed his Weak Paintings in a solo booth sponsored by VH1. He was awarded an Achievement Scholarship from Transart Institute and completed their summer residency program in Berlin, Germany. Quintín is a R.I.S.C.A. (N.E.A.) Individual Artist Grant Recipient, and has received a Sylvia Leslie Young Herman Scholarship Award as well as Academic Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design. For more info about Quintín Rivera Toro, visit:

4 EDUCATION 2013 M.F.A. Sculpture. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I B.A. Communications, Film studies. University of Puerto Rico, R.P., P.R B.F.A. Sculpture. Hunter College, NYC SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Business As Usual - Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI Summer Grid - Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI 2011 The Bridge - Public art project - Dexter Field, Providence, RI Allafuera - Espacio La Metro, San Juan, PR 2010 Sobre el miedo y otros problemas del inconsciente colectivo - Museo de las Américas, Cuartel de Ballajá, San Juan, PR 2008 Performing a vivir: el soundtrack aleatorio - Galería de Arte, Universidad Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, PR 2006 Quintín Rivera Toro: Atmospherics Cubic Feet Gallery, M.S.U., MN 2005 Un espacio libre - Public art project - MuAC/Caguas, PR 2001 Área - Museo de Arte de Caguas, PR 2000 Buscando la figura - Museo de Arte de Caguas, PR GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Operating System - Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC Concrete Illusions - Villa Victoria Arts Center, Boston, MA Show Me Your Glands - N.A.R.S. Foundation, Brooklyn, NY Trienal Poligráfica - Instituto de Cultura, San Juan, PR IV Semana de Vídeo Iberoamericano - Filmoteca de Andalucía, Spain Personal Culture - Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, RI Come Here, I Need You - Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, RI Artistas Boricuas Contemporáneos - Trailer Park Projects. San Juan, PR 2011 Muestra Nacional 11ʼ - Arte en el medio - Instituto de Cultura, PR Signos Vitales - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, PR Historia Urbanas - Centro Cultural Casa Tejas Verdes, La Habana, Cuba Preámbulo - M.C.E.H., Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR Diversity Exhibit - Warwick Art Museum, Warwick, RI Egofilia: Narcicismos y Bizarrerías - cart WATCH, San Juan, PR Dallas Art Fair - Dean Project Gallery, Dallas, TX 2010 Recent Acquisitions of the Latin American Collection - The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, FL

5 Everyone Has a Different View - Nottingham Play House, London, UK Mobile Spaces - University of Madison, Wisconsin Hair Tactics - Jersey City Museum, NJ ZONA MACO - Dean Project Gallery, Centro Banamex, D.F., MX CIRCA 10 - Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan Convention Center, PR Serie Regional Liga Pampers - I.C.P., San Juan, PR Geografía Humana - M.A.P.R., San Juan, PR 2009 Puerto Rico: Human Geography - Smithsonian Museum, Washigton D.C. Nostalgia Futuro/Homenaje Renau - Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain Facing Locality - C.M.C.A., St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Muestra Nacional 09ʼ - Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR Publica 3 - Trienal Poligráfica, Arsenal de la Puntilla, San Juan, PR PINTA 09 - Dean Project Gallery, Met Pavilion, Altman Building, NY, NY CIRCA 09 - Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan Convention Center, PR 2008 Garden of Delights/Yeosu International Arts Festival - South Korea III Ciclo de video arte Latinoamericano, I.V.A.M. - Valencia, Spain Cataño DC: Distrito Cultural - Cataño, P.R. Art of Democracy - ÁREA, lugar de proyectos, Caguas, PR Colectivo Angora - Municipio Autónomo de Caguas, PR Terruño y paraíso perdido - Museo de arte de Caguas, PR PINTA 08 - Metropolitan Pavilion, Altman Building, NY, NY CIRCA 08 - Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan Convention Center, PR 2007 The Building Show - Exit Art, NYC II Ciclo de video arte Latinoamericano - I.V.A.M., Valencia, Spain America's Paradise and Isla Del Encanto - SMFA, Boston, MA Sonotube(r) - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA Enfrentamientos - M.A.A.C., Guayaquil, Ecuador VI Salon de dibujo - Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, RD Introspectiva/Awilda Sterling, Teatro Arriví, Santurce, PR Terruño y paraíso perdido - Cuartel de Ballajá, San Juan, PR Sucio Difícil: Los 70 - performance, Teatro Yerbabruja, Río Piedras, PR En tiempos de video - Galería 356, San Juan, PR Optika 2 - Symposium, R.U.M., Mayagüez, PR CIRCA 07 - Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan Convention Center, PR 2006 More or less 3,480 Seconds - Gallery 3175, San Francisco, CA Muestra Nacional 06ʼ - Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR Becas Lexus para artistas - M.A.C., San Juan, PR 05982:01 Montevideo Digital - F. A.C., Montevideo, Uruguay Polverío - El polvorín, Parque Luis Muñoz Rivera, San Juan, PR REWIND REWIND - Museo Arsenal de la Puntilla, San Juan, PR

6 The S-Files - Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR La gran feria de marzo - =DESTO, Santurce, PR CIRCA 06 - Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan Convention Center, PR 2005 The (S) Files Bienial - El Museo del Barrio, NYC Pantalla Breve - video experimental, San Juan Cinemafest, PR Nuevas voces en el arte video - M.A.C., San Juan, PR Flow: Navigating the Super Paradigm - Bulldog Studios, Beacon, NY The Happiest Peeps - public installation, 303 Tetuán, San Juan, PR Windows on Main Street - Beacon, NY No Man is an Island - Open Gallery, Art School, NJ The Fourth Floor - Western Exhibitions Gallery, Chicago, IL Now Playing -The Iron Fish Trading Company, Beacon, NY AWARDS 2012 Honors - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI W.B.N.A. Community Development Award, Providence, RI Selection - Buy Art Providence Button, Providence, RI 2011 Sylvia Leslie Young Herman Scholarship Award Rhode Island School of Design Individual Artist Project Grant - R.I.S.C.A. (N.E.A.) - Providence, RI First Prize - Certamen de Fotografía Contemporánea - UBS/Galería de Arte, U.S.C. San Juan, PR Honorable Mention - Foto MAC competition, San Juan, PR 2010 Achievement Scholarship - Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany 2009 Ox Bow School of Art Residency - Saugatauck, Michigan Special Mention - Oriental Bank Art Contest of Puerto Rico 2007 Art Person of the Year, El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico 2006 AICA Prize, AICA Chapters in Puerto Rico 2005 E.I.T.A.L.C. residency, Cuernavaca, MX Lexus Grant for Artists, Fundación Comunitaria de PR, San Juan, PR Nomination: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant 2004 Public Art Comission, Villas Miantojo / Municipio de Caguas, PR 2003 Chinati Foundation Internship, Marfa, TX

7 2002 DAAD Travel Grant, German Academic Exchange Service, Germany Artist Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Scholarship Welfare Fund Alumni Award, Hunter College, NYC Richard M. Kaye Scholarship Award, Hunter College, NYC 2001 Edwin Austin Abbey Grant, National Academy of Design, NYC Quintín Rivera Toro has been a visiting artist and speaker at: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI The SMFA in Boston, MA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR Universidad de Puerto Rico en Río Piedras, PR Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez, PR CIRCA 05ʼ art fair, San Juan Convention Center, PR

8 QUINTÍN RIVERA TORO BUSINESS AS USUAL > PRICE LIST This PRICE LIST includes all BUSINESS AS USUAL artwork exhibited at Yellow Peril from October 18 to November 11, The Gallery will provide collectors with an Authentication Certificate for each original work of art sold and signed by the Artist, in addition to a CD- ROM with relevant exhibition documents. All artwork sold at Yellow Peril Gallery is tax-free. Prices do not include Shipping and Handling costs, which vary by location. Business As Usual 2012 Found Lumber, Door and Work Lights 24 x 16 Price Upon Request My Agenda is Not Their Agenda 2012 Digital C-Print 10 x 8, Unframed Edition of 3 $ x 15, Matted + Framed Edition of 3 - $ x 40, Unframed Edition of 1 - $1,475

9 My Agenda is Not Their Agenda 2012 Digital C-Print 8 x 10, Unframed Edition of 3 $ x 19, Matted + Framed Edition of 3 - $ x 60, Unframed Edition of 1 - $1,475 My Agenda is Not Their Agenda 2012 Digital C-Print 8 x 10, Unframed Edition of 3 $ x 19, Matted + Framed Edition of 3 - $ x 60, Unframed Edition of 1 - $1,475 El Campeón 2012 Poplar + Maple, Plexiglas x 6.5 x 3 $650 Activism 2012 Silicone Rubber Cast 10 Diameter, 53 Length Rubber - $700 Black - $700

10 About Speech (Purple) 2012 Plastic Cast 3.25 x 2.6 x 1 $425 Boule 2012 Wood 11 x 9 x 5 $625 Occupy Your Desk 2012 Cast Mold 6 x 5 x 3 Various Colors - $99 Business As Usual 2012 HD Video Edition of 3 $250 - $350

11 A portion of the proceeds from BUSINESS AS USUAL sales will be donated to Wild Child Care, a childcare collective based in Providence at Libertalia. Wild Child is a group of parents and parent allies working to share the joys and burdens of caring for the next generation. As parents we work together to create a community of support for ourselves and our children; valuing the slow process of building relationships between our children and between our children and other adults. By rotating care, parents get a scheduled break and our young children get the chance to build friendships with other children and other adults. Parents who feels their child is ready for childcare has the opportunity to sign up for a monthly shift as a caregiver and in exchange, use the Wild Child sessions as childcare. Currently Wild Child meets two mornings a week, and consists of children aged 18 months to 4 years (exceptions are considered on a case-by-case basis). We meet at Libertalia, 280 Broadway Rm 200, in Providence. For more info please, visit wildchildcare.wordpress.com»

12 P R E S S R E L E A S E FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > September 01, 2012 Yellow Peril Gallery 60 Valley Street #5 Providence, RI Media Contact: V Souvannasane Tel: E/M: van@yellowperilgallery.com BUSINESS AS USUAL Quintín Rivera-Toro October 18 November 11, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 2012, 5PM 9PM at Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley St #5, Providence, RI Gallery Hours: Thursday + Friday, 3PM 8PM Saturday + Sunday, 12PM 5PM Other days by appointment

13 Yellow Peril Gallery is pleased to present BUSINESS AS USUAL, an exhibition of various works including site-specific installations, live performance, video simulcast, photography and sculpture by Latin American Contemporary artist Quintín Rivera-Toro. In the first installation, Rivera-Toro will layer the façade of Yellow Peril Gallery with 4 x8 plywood panels and juxtapose the space s temporary veneer with provocative text, which is intended to be an architectural interplay of words between the gallery and its neighbor, Cuban Revolution. Recent social phenomenon in the housing markets have estranged people from their former homes, but also the trauma that stems from the loss of their previous positions in society, Rivera-Toro notes. With BUSINESS AS USUAL, I hope to use Yellow Peril s new façade as a platform for socially critical observations and articulate my outsider point-of-view as an artist from a foreign land while engaging with the general public about experiencing an economically-challenged community like Olneyville. Inside the gallery exhibition space, an installation will feature a framed door welcoming opening night visitors to watch Rivera-Toro as he performs a sound piece that will be streamed live online and broadcasted simultaneously in the adjacent Studio, where new works from the artist will be on display. Rivera-Toro is known for his site-specific art installations and performances. As an artist with an activist slant, Rivera-Toro creates work that communicates and engages with its audience. His most recent site-specific installation was SUMMER GRID: A RELATIONAL PROJECT, which was comprised of a large arrangement of over two dozen "kiddie pools" and "backyard waterworks" in The Plant Courtyard adjacent to Yellow Peril Gallery. At Dexter Training Ground on the West Side of Providence, RI, Rivera-Toro s permanent public art installation The Bridge also connects people and is a place for gathering and interacting. BUSINESS AS USUAL will be streamed live on Yellow Peril Gallery s Facebook page ( during the opening reception on Thursday, October 18, 2012 from 5PM to 9PM. About Quintín Rivera-Toro Quintín Rivera Toro was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico in He holds a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Hunter College, New York and a B.A. in Communications and Film Studies, from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras He currently pursues his M.F.A. Degree in the Sculpture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. In his native Puerto Rico, Quintín was awarded The Lexus Grant for artists. His public art project Un espacio libre, originally shown in his hometown of Caguas, was invited to travel to El Museo del Barrio for the S-Files biennial and the art fair PINTA, both in NYC; it was also shown in the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and with F.I.S.T. ART in Dorado. His photographic work received an Honorable Mention from Puerto Rico's Museum of Contemporary Art and a First Prize award from the University of Sagrado

14 Corazón's Contemporary Photography Contest, in San Juan. He co-founded and worked as the Director of ÁREA, lugar de proyectos in Caguas. Quintín has been awarded with the DAAD German Academic Exchange Travel Grant, with which he travelled to Cologne and Berlin in Germany. He has received full fellowships for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson Vermont and the National Academy of Design in New York City; he has also been an artist in residence at the Ox Bow School of Art, S.A.I.C. in Saugatuck, Michigan. Quintín also worked as an intern at the Chinati Museum in Marfa, Texas, and he studied with the Escuela Internacional de Teatro de América Latina y el Caribe (E.I.T.A.L.C.) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His work was selected by Zona MACO art fair as a focused work and displayed his "Weak Paintings" in a solo booth sponsored by VH1. He was awarded an Achievement Scholarship from Transart Institute and completed their summer residency program in Berlin, Germany. Quintín is a R.I.S.C.A. (N.E.A.) Individual Artist Grant Recipient, and has received a Sylvia Leslie Young Herman Scholarship Award as well as Academic Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design. For more info about Quintín Rivera Toro, visit: About Yellow Peril Gallery YELLOW PERIL GALLERY is located at The Plant, a historic mill complex in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The Gallery strives to foster modern art critiques on popular culture and society from established and emerging artists in the United States and abroad. We aspire to exhibit provocative and visually arresting artwork created specifically to ignite conversations long after viewers have left the building. Artists that we represent share our commitment to social responsibility, and a percentage from the sale of all artwork is donated to a charitable organization of the Artists choice. For more info about future exhibitions, visit * * * * If you d like more information about this press release, or to schedule an interview with Quintín Rivera Toro, please contact V Souvannasane at or at van@yellowperilgallery.com.