Lissa Rivera

Lissa Rivera (born 1984) is an American artist and curator whose work examines gender identity, sexuality, and the construction of femininity through staged portraiture. Her series Beautiful Boy, portraits of her genderqueer partner in period dress and interiors, has been widely exhibited and won the Magnum Photography Award for Portraiture.

At the Museum of Sex, Rivera curated exhibitions that broadened the institution's focus to include contemporary art and underrepresented voices, including the first U.S. museum survey of Surrealist Leonor Fini and the museum's first bilingual exhibition.