Nacido en 1983 en Morelia (Michoacán, México). Vive y trabaja en Brooklyn (Nueva York). De Nieves is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include As Far As UUU Take Me, Company Gallery, New York; Raúl de Nieves: Fina, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; and When I Look in to Your Eyes I See the Sun, Art Production Fund/Bvlgari, Miami Beach, Florida. De Nieves has taken part in recent group exhibitions such as Glow Like That at K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; People at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles; ONSITE at Swiss Institute, New York; the 2017 Whitney Biennial; and MoMA PS1’s 2015 iteration of Greater New York. De Nieves has performed at documenta 14, Performa 13, ICA Philadelphia, The Watermill Center, The Kitchen, Artists Space, and numerous other venues.