Education
In 1967, while completing his compulsory military service in the FAR, he attended workshops in the plastic arts
In 1967, while completing his compulsory military service in the FAR, he attended workshops in the plastic arts
He currently resides in Argentina. Rivas began studying painting at the Workshop of Fine Arts of San Jose de las Lajas. In 1971, Rivas went to work as a graphic designer in the magazine Verde Olivo, where he worked until 1980.
His admiration and knowledge of the American writer Ernest Hemingway led him to create a set of memorable cartoons, later published in a book, which have become widely popular.
Rivas frequently participates in personal and collective exhibitions. 1968 - Second Prize in woodcutting - Talleres de Artes Plásticas de Louisiana Habana, Havana, Cuba Individual 1988 – Cabezas.
Esculturas en madera. Galeria Boffil. Santiago de Cuba.
(During the Festival Internacional de Arte Caribeño).
1989 – Galería Provincial de Pinar del Río. Carricature works on the 90th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Hemingway. 1992 – Centro Cultural Recoleta.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Examples of caricatures of Ernest Hemingway and wood sculptures. 1994 – Museo y Archivo Dardo Rocha, Louisiana Plata, Argentina Carricature exposition on the 95th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Hemingway.
1997 – Museo de Bellas Artes de Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Examples of caricatures of Ernest Hemingway 1998 – Municipalidad de Louisiana Plata.
Louisiana Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Paintings. Collective Louisiana Feria de ArteBA, 1997 and 2000. Institutions showing some of his work 1988 – Caricaturas de Ernest Hemingway.
Casa-Museo Ernest Hemingway, San Francisco de Paula, Havana, Cuba.
1989 – Escultura en Museo de la Kon Tiki, Noruega. 1991 – Caricaturas de Ernest Hemingway, Museo del Humor. San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, Cuba.
1993 – Donación de Escultura al Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1994 – Caricatura de Dardo Rocha, Museo y Archivo Dardo Rocha.
Louisiana Plata, Argentina. 2009 – Caricatura de Albert Einstein, Museo del Humor de San Antonio de los Baños, Havana, Cuba.