Josué Rivas (b. 1989 Guanajuato, Mexico)

Awards

2022 NDN Collective’s Radical Imagination Artists

2022 The 30: New And Emerging Photographers To Watch

2020 Catchlight Leadership Fellowship

2019 Grist 50

2018 The Lit List: 30 Photographers to Watch

2018 1st Place, Native American Journalists Association, Best Feature Photo, YES! Magazine
Water Protectors Return to Standing Rock—This Time for Healing

2018 1st Place, FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo 

2017 People's Choice, PDN Faces 

2017 1st Place, Sinchi Photo Competition 

2017 Honorable Mention International Photography Awards in the Professional: Editorial, Photo Essay and Feature Story

Selected Exhibitions

2023 “Momentum” Center For The Study Of Race And Ethnicity In America” Brown University

2023 “Follow Your Light” INDUSTRY One, Portland, OR

2022 “America In Crisis” Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2021 “En Medio - Senses Of Migration” The Lilley Of Art, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

2021 “The Protest and the Recuperation” Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

2020 “The Power Of Telling Your Own Story” Photoville Brooklyn, NY

2019 “How We See Ourselves” Photoville Brooklyn, NY

2018 “The Lit List: 30 Under the Radar Photographers” Photoville Brooklyn, NY

2018 "FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo Exhibit" Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY

2018 "Badlands" Professional Art Society of Stanford University Stanford, CA

2018  "World Press Photo Exhibition" Worldwide

2017  "Water is Life" The Growlery, San Francisco, CA

2017   "We the People" Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN 

2017   "The Art of Indigenous Resistance" Traveling Across the U.S.  

2017   "Standing Rock Lucie Foundation Showcase" Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA

2017  Taking Native People’s Land, Then and Now, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Curriculums

2020 Photoville Project Planning with Intention and Authenticity

Lectures

2017 The Power of Telling Your Own Story, Earth Systems Stanford University

2017 The Power of Telling Your Own Story, TEDx Rapid City

Education

2018 The New York Times Portfolio Review

2017 Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship

Film Screenings

2017 Akicita, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT (Cinematographer)

2016  Standing Strong Short Film, Red Nation Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA (Director, Cinematographer, Editor)

2016  We Are Still Here Short Film, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA (Director, Cinematographer, Editor)