SOLO EXHIBITION - Migdalia Nevin-Rivera
January 28 to February 28
”A Dream Becomes Jewelry”
SHOW OPENING
Thursday, January 29, 5:00-7:00 pm
Migdalia Nevin Rivera is originally from Zacatecas, Zac. She obtains the Specialty of Jewelry with technical direction from Tane Orfebres, Diploma in Management Competencies from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, studies in gemology, at the Gemological Institute of High Logistics of Mexico, studies and diplomas on old metal techniques, new jewelry techniques, design, technical drawing, art, painting, engraving, sculpture, ceramics, photography, marketing, exports, jewelry design, three-dimensional modeling, chiselling, settings, artistic appreciation, graphic design, marketing, among others. Educated under international professors from Spain, France, the United States, Italy and Mexico, such as Professor Carles Codina, prestigious author of jewelry books and professor at the Massana España school, with the designer of Tane and international museographer Alfonso Soto Soria, the Vatican goldsmiths of Bottega Morttet in Italy, with the Italian Designer Beatriz Biagi, with the American goldsmith and inventor professor Jay Whaley, with the master Emilio Carrasco from Mexico, among others and in Institutions such as The Silver Institute International in Mexico City. She is currently studying Art and Jewelry at Sowthwestern College in San Diego, California, in addition to courses in Art History and World Museums with Historian María Luisa Durazo. In 1998, Migdalia created her jewelry design and production company Migdalia Rivera, Gioielli, active to date. She recently expanded into the United States with a signature jewelry Art and Design Studio Migdalia Rivera Jewelry, San Diego Studios. She was a founding member of the Association Civil Centro Platero de Zacatecas, with which they managed to have 7 points of sale, a gallery and the Silver School Pedro Leites Vilner for whom she successfully managed the donation of equipment in Italy before the Italian-Latin American Institute and participated in the development of the curricula. She has been the winner of state, national and international jewelry competitions.
She has managed to show her work in Exhibitions, and individual and collective fairs in Canada, the United States, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Cuba and much of the Mexican Republic. Participating in outstanding events such as EurexPo in France, JCK in Las Vegas, catwalks with Fashion TV, Macro International Congress of Contemporary Jewelry Circuits Bijoux Du Paris, at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris France and Cité Universitaire de Paris.
Additionally, her jewelry has been exhibited in the House of Culture of Zacatecas, Museum of Viceregal Art of Guadalupe, Manuel Felguerez Museum, in CDMX the Mexican Museum of Design, Iturbide Palace, in the Chamber of Senators of the Mexican Republic, in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, in Casa Jalisco, Etla Museum of Oaxaca, House of Culture of Perigoex France, San Diego Civic Theater, Balboa Theater in San Diego California, Sharp Hospital in California, and was awarded by the Carlos Slim Foundation and Industries Peñoles at the Soumaya Museum in the "Exhibition of Silver and Gold United by the Jewels of Mexico" among others. Recently, his work in Jordan could be appreciated before Prince Hasan of Jordan, at the Embassy of Mexico in Jordan and the city of Jerash, on tour with a commission of binational artists of Mexican music and folklore.
In addition, she has been participating in exhibitions and representations at the Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles California at the Zacatecas-Japan Expo in 2024, and In 2025, Migdalia represented Zacatecas in the United States with an exhibition within the great event of the binational Tianguis Turistico called Ventana a Mexico at Liberty Station in San Diego California.
In May 2025, she obtained the certificate of the brainmexico jewelry workshop from de firm braincelona in Barcelona, Spain, under the hospice of the Craft House of Catalonia.
Migdalia teaches courses, conferences and training on jewelry design and jewelry techniques at events, schools and private workshops, as well as at highly prestigious institutions such as the Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Guadalajara.
Migdalia Rivera is considered one of the greatest exponents of silversmithing in Mexico by Fomento Cultural Banamex within the great traveling exhibition "Artificios, Plata y Diseño en México 1880-2015" with publication of the Book that bears the same name. This exhibition made a tour of more than a year inside the Old Palace of Iturbide in Mexico City, Amparo Museum of Puebla and Etla Museum of Oaxaca.