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Rivoli’s work is in many distinguished private, corporate, and public collections, including those of Elton John, the late Leona Helmsley, The Whitney Museum of Art in New York, The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, and Kaiser Permamente in Denver. He has exhibited at galleries in Colorado, New York, Maine, and California. He curated a show of his various “Collections of 100 Things” at the Art Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. Mario’s work was included in Julie Dale’s landmark book “Art To Wear,” and in the 2020 show “Off the Wall: American Art To Wear” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

After graduating from High School of Arts in 1961 Mario took a job doing apartment layout diagrams for a real estate company. He stayed with it for a week, and has been on his own ever since…not rich or famous, but earning a living as an artist in many media, as a leading dealer in Bakelite jewelry, and as the proprietor of a Denver antiques shop. 

In March 2020 Mario suffered a serious stroke; and while in recovery he returned to drawing. The new drawings are very different from his earlier work. Done in colored pencils they are imaginative, bizarre, funny, brilliantly colored, and technically assured. 

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