Born in Avilés (Asturias). He studied Fine Arts in Salamanca completing his training with the Contemporary Art Workshops of El Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (Spain).

His career focused on painting until 2008, when he exhibited photographs of intervened landscapes for the first time on the occasion of his exhibition at the Reina Sofía National Museum and Art Center.

Among its institutional exhibitions, stand out Noche Áurea in Museo Nacional y Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2008), Secuencias in Museo Barjola (2010); Sincronicidad in DA2 (Salamanca, 2014), Luz Vulnerada in Centro Niemeyer (2015), Sector Primario in (MUSAC, collective 2015), Luz natural.

Un vacío siempre distinto in CAB (Burgos,2018) or Bonaval in CGAC (Santiago de Compostela, 2018) Regarding his work in public spaces, he has carried out specific interventions for Photoespaña, MUSAC (León) or CAB (Burgos).

Stand out interventions such as Alameda llum (2012) in which eleven of its installations remained for two months in Los Jardines del Turia, or Gráficos Paramétricos (2017) in El Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, as part of Luna de Octubre, which received over 6000 visitors .

Javier Riera keeps teaching at Master Photoespaña and at Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid.