MICK CHIVERS

Mick Chivers (he/him) is an artist and commercial fisherman from southern Rhode Island currently pursuing an AB in Visual Arts from Brown University. Growing up on a small homestead in southern Rhode Island, and being an active participant in the region’s commercial fishing industry, Mick has lived closely in tune with both artisanal and industrial food production pathways, gleaning a deep and multifaceted appreciation of the organisms our society harvests to sustain a global population. Thus, his work centers on the waste produced by Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing industries, acting to memorialize animals/plants/ecosystems while engaging in dialogue with the viewer about their relationship to the narrative existence of these organisms.

    Mick’s work has been published in The New York Times Magazine and exhibited widely in Providence, RI. His studio practice is the subject of a short film, Harvests Therefrom, filmed by Woo Nam Song.