Gyz La Rivière
film - installation - publication - video - archives - history - conceptual - comics / cartoons - experimental
Gyz La Rivière (Rotterdam, 1976) is an artist, filmmaker, researcher and writer. He approaches his work as an idiosyncratic image archivist, combining images he himself creates with in-depth archival research, objects he finds on the street, loans from collections, infographics, logos, icons and stories. The dazzling Gyzian universe he forges from these various sources sharpens our view of the world around us in unexpected ways.
Gyz La Rivière studied fashion design at the Willem de Kooning Academy. In 2000, he graduated as the first student in the history of his school without a collection. In 2002, he was awarded the Rotterdam Maaskant Prize. In 2011, he received 'The Praise of Folly' Honorary Pin from the Committee Erasmus and in early 2013 he won the Dolf Henkes Prize for iconic Rotterdam-based artists. Also in 2013, he directed 'Rotterdam 2040' and in 2020 the film 'New Neapolis', followed in 2023 by 'Malin TV'. Recently he published 'The phone booth book of Rotterdam' (2022), his thirteenth publication.