Carlos Antonio Rivera Vera is a Mexican born, fine artist. At 18 years of age, he featured in his first formal exposition (Pluralidades: Expresiones Reunidas), debuting with two artworks. He uses social media with the objetive of reaching new audiences and providing followers with a closer look into what goes in each work.

Rivera was raised in the suburbs of Mexico and began drawing at a very early age. His inspiration came from nature shows he watched as a child; the artist recalls David Attenborough, Jane Goodall and Steve Irwin as his early role models. However, his professional approach to art came when he enrolled in the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts program in 2022, where he discovered his identity as an artist. By the end of the program he had borrowed inspiration from artists like Banksy, Frida Kahlo, Damien Hirst, Katsushika Hokusai, Carlos de Haes and Michael Basquiat who inspired him to create a more complete outlook into his art processes.

Mostly self-taught, he explored different techniques and concepts until stumbling upon the relationship between nature and artistic expression. Through this discovery he based most of his works, exploring themes regarding environmental and animal beauty, cultural representation, social issues, abstract concepts and their intersections. Drawing exclusively in graphite for most of his life, and later venturing into other mediums, like oil and photography.