Shey Rivera Ríos is a multi-genre artist and arts manager. Shey creates mixed media installations, music, poetry, performance and video. She is part of the performance duo ISLANDS, with artist Jason Curzake.

Along with Curzake and artist/poet Sussy Santana, they launched a collective Fluxus performance series in 2013 that features the work of around twenty artists from diverse mediums. Shey is a founding member of the poetry collective Las Tenoras, alongside poets Sussy Santana and Marleny Luna, and she also performs with Monkee Head, an experimental band comprised of artists Umberto Crenca, Susan Clausen, Chris Anderson and Ricardo “Dingo” Ferrer.

Her work has been featured in Puerto Rico, Boston and throughout Rhode Island. She completed a BA with double major in psychology and sociology in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, and coursed the graduate program in contemporary media and culture in the University of the Sacred Heart, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Her literary work has been published in several literary publications, including the first queer Puerto Rican literary anthology, titled Los otros cuerpos: Antología de temática gay, lésbica y ‘queer’ desde Puerto Rico y su diáspora (“The Other Bodies: Anthology of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Literature from Puerto Rico and its Diaspora”) in 2007 and, recently, Witch Fingers (2014), an anthology of literary work by visual artists, compiled and published by multi-genre artist Xander Marro.

Shey is also the founder of .Crudo, an independent arts and culture digital magazine focused on contemporary Latin-American art and culture. She specializes in arts management, Japanese visual culture, gender identity and cultural theory. Shey is a strong advocate for artists as critical agents of change in society, as well as the value of artist-run organizations. Presently, she is the director of programs at AS220, an internationally renowned cultural center in Providence.