Artist Biography

Based in Mexico City, Melissa Ríos works primarily in painting and drawing. Exploring the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos draws on feminist, literary, and surrealist understandings of reality and its representation.

 

Her paintings depict surreal, dream-like visions where figures, objects, and abstract forms overlap and interact, creating layered compositions that mediate between different realms of experience. Emotionally charged and deeply introspective, her work contemplates the spaces between the physical and the metaphysical, between imagination and lived experience.