Rivet's family lived both in the country and in town at Aklavik, which was a Métis trading center. Métis have a specific culture with First Nations and European roots. He began school in Aklavik at age seven.[2]
His art is deeply influenced by ideas of fusion and hybridity of cultures.[4] He works primarily in acrylic on canvas in a style he has referred to as "an expressionist/primitivist approach."[5] In 1999, he was awarded with a Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship.[6] In 2023, Rivet presented a one-person show, Journeys, Mounds and the Metaphysical, at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.[7]
Rivet's permanent public art mural, Millenium Mural, is installed at the David S. Strong Building at the Univerysity of Victoria, and other works of his are held in the permanent collection of the Maltwood Museum and Art Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.[8] Rivet's work is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston.[9]
^Contemporary Masters: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Vol. I. Indianapolis, IN: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. 1999. p. 32. ISBN0-9635492-2-7.
^Ostrowitz, Judith (1999). Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art. University of Washington Press. p. 150.
