Kazimir Simpson, working under the moniker *Virgil Riviera* for the past 5 years, has been exhibiting across Canada since 2012 in both solo and group shows. A multi-disciplinary artist with roots in painting, interactive installations, fashion, and VFX. His practice centers around evoking visceral responses through bold contrasts, layered symbolism, and abstracted figures. 

Simpson's work is a mix of multiple influences and styles, a deliberate practice that is reflective of mixed Caribbean-European ancestry and the influences there within. Artistic exploration in understanding a shared human visual human framework, Simpson's definition of the Human Condition.

A dual reference in Simpson’s moniker— Virgil, Dante Alighieri's guide through the afterlife in the Divine Comedy, and Riviera, a neuro-manipulating artist in William Gibson’s Neuromancer – serves as a metaphor for his exploration: the convergence of poetic introspection and  futurism.

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