Rio Goodwin Perez (they/elle) (b. Westminster, MD 1996) is a trans interdisciplinary artist. Their work simultaneously acts as a mirror and a portal: reflecting and critiquing the nature of interlocking systems of oppression while visioning liberated worlds. 

Rio creates paintings, drawings, sculptures, wearables, and time-based works that reflect the nature of their experience being raised in Tennessee, largely in isolation from the Puerto Rican diaspora. Faced with this isolation, Rio was forced to forge a unique relationship to Puerto Rico and its history as a whole, mainly relying on family stories to understand their culture. Rio combines traditional Puerto Rican techniques such as mask making and oral storytelling with modern materiality, often using natural materials in conjunction with found and recycled objects. Much of their work incorporates archival research about their own family in an attempt to prevent the erasure of their relations. 

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