Rick Rivet


Rick Rivet is a Sahtu-Métis painter living in Canada.

Background and education

Rivet's family lived both in the country and in town at Aklavik, which was a Métis trading center. Métis have a specific culture with First Nations and European roots. He began school in Aklavik at age seven.
Rivet earned four degrees: his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta in 1972; his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 1980; his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 1985, and Bachelor of Education from the University of Saskatchewan in 1986.

Artwork

His art is deeply influenced by ideas of fusion and hybridity of cultures. He works primarily in acrylic on canvas in a style he has referred to as "an expressionist/primitivist approach."