Bio/CV: Felix Carmelo Rios was born in 1968 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. In 1997 he moved to Miami, Florida where he lives and works.

Artist Statement: My work reveals my intense aesthetic gaze, forged in an endless search for form’s intrinsic beauty. The study of languages derived from geometric abstraction and associated with minimalism has given me the expressive tools to carry out an artistic proposal that fulfills this fundamental interest. Nevertheless, my practice is not merely analytical, it looks to recreate the encounter with pure forms and the rhythms that their relationships produce-chasing the apparent chaos of the surrounding reality.  

Selected Exhibitions: 2022 X Marks the Spot, Laundromat Art Space, Miami FL 2021 Rhythms, IMAGO Art in Action, Miami, FL 2020 Celebration, Galería Petrus, San Juan PR  Pasion en Blanco y Negro, Galería Petrus, San Juan, PR  2019 Chinchorreo Night, Galeria Petrus, San Juan, PR  Generación Reactiva 3er Aniversario, Arte@Plaza, San Juan, PR  2017 Abstracto: Contemporary Art, Carlos Mata International, Miami, FL  Punto de Encuentro Galeria Tous Soto, El Capitolio de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR  2016 Generación Reactiva Edición Navidad, Arte@Plaza, San Juan,PR  Colectiva, Galeria Petrus, San Juan, PR  Black Velvet, Arte @Plaza, San Juan, PR  Love is the Color, Arte@Plaza, San Juan, PR 

Education: Ai Miami International University of Art & Design Miami, Florida

Social: @felix_carmelo