Rodolfo Nieto Labastida (July 13, 1936 in Oaxaca – June 24, 1985 in Mexico City) was a Mexican painter of the Oaxacan School (apprenticed under Diego Rivera, later served him as an assistant).

Rodolfo Nieto was born at home in Oaxaca on July 13, 1936. His father Rodolfo Nieto Gris, a medical epidemiologist, left the home mysteriously around 1949. After his disappearance, the family became destitute; his mother, Josefina Labastida de Nieto, a homemaker, moved to Mexico City with Rodolfo and his younger brother Carlos Nieto, a poet, who was later murdered after Rodolfo died; formed a new family & half brother, Ignacio Saucedo was born.

In Mexico City, Nieto began studies in 1954 at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura...