The Art of Marco Riha

Originally from Austria, I started my long creative journey in Sri Lanka in 1995. 

As an autodidact artist I kept on painting and travelling for some years until I found in Mexico my creative home base. 

The majority of my images are born out of an automatic painting technique:

'Automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process.' 

 (Tate Art Term) 

Experimentations with all types of mediums include a long fascination with oils on canvas - a  symbolic period  filled with therapeutic releases, inner and outer travel logs and first screams in color.  

The 'colorDrops' series from 2014 mark the beginning of my abstract works in mixed media. This current period includes socio-political pieces about liberty, tolerance, ecocide, division and unity.

My two favorite periods in art history:

The first is plain to see with my Vitruvian-Man-Video-Installation above. It signals my readiness for another Renaissance.

The second is a Québécois artistic dissidents movement called 'Les Automatistes'. Their approach to creating art and some of their 'Total Refusal' (Le Refus global) manifesto ideas really hit home for me.

• 2011 :         Gallerie am Schillerplatz, 'wanderjahre', Wien, AT 
• 2013:           Hotel Asiana, 'behind the surface', Dubai, UAE 
• 2015:          Las Galerías, 'exposición de arte', Puerto Morelos, MX 
• 2017:          ArtboxProjects Basel, CH 
• 2018:          Olympus Tours Gallery, collective expo 'alas' Cancun, MX
• 2018:          La Verdad  Noticias, MX Issue 01
• 2019:          Jardín Botánico, 'artistas por la paz', Puerto Morelos, MX 
• 2019:          ArtboxProjects, Miami, US
• 2 019:         WOTISART? Art Magazine, London, UK Issue 12
• 2020:          AlTiba9, Contemporary Art, Algier, DZ Issue 04 
• 2020:          Art Habens Contemporary Art Review, London, UK Issue 09 
• 2020:          Winner of the Special Prize, Mellow Art Award, Japan 
• 2021:          Arte Visual Mexico, MX, Issue 01 & 04
• 2021/06:  Focus Art Fair, L'Atelier Richelieu, Paris, FR by HongLee Curators:  
• 2021/08:  Colour of Life, Saatchi Gallery &
• 2021/09:  Colour of Emotion FOLD Gallery, London, UK 
• 2021/10:  Tokyo International Art Fair, Japan 
• 2021/11:   Dubai Art Expo, UAE 
• 2021/11:   ARTSPER, FR - featured artist
• 2021/12:   ARTJOBS.COM Artist of the Month  
• 2023/01:   Smart Artist Hub, London, UK 
• 2023/05:   TRACCE DEL TEMPO, Lecce, IT