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WORK
Paul Henry Ramirez (1963–) is a contemporary American artist, born in El Paso, Texas, and currently residing in the greater New York metropolitan area. In 2011, Ramirez coined the term biogeomorphic abstraction1 to describe his own bold painting style, a fusion of biomorphic and geometric forms. Donald Kuspit, scholar and art critic, describes Ramirez as “an important new kind of abstract painter. . . an abstractionist playing with color and form to exciting imaginative effect.”2

Over the past two decades, Ramirez has developed and created site-specific installations, which combine drawings, paintings, objects, sculpture, music, dance, and furniture in dialog with architectural space and architectural elements. Ramirez creates a total environment, inviting viewers more to experience than observe, to feel as if “they are coming into the belly of a painting”3 as they enter his world—his installation.

Ramirez's site-specific installations were first featured in New York City’s alternative exhibition spaces: the Drawing Center (1994), Clock Tower Gallery (1995) and Franklin Furnace (1995). For such installations, Ramirez often collaborates with sound designers, dance choreographers, costume designers, and furniture designers. His first such exhibition was “Real Pretty Simple Innocent Paintings” at Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, in 1998.

CAREER
Paul Henry Ramirez has shown throughout the United States and Europe. His works have been exhibited at Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (1982), Austin Museum (1997), Brooklyn Museum of Art (1997), Bronx Museum of Art (1997), Aldrich Museum (1998), Corcoran Gallery of Art (2000), Museo del Barrio (2000), Cincinnati Museum of Art (2001), Whitney Museum of American (2002), Newark Museum (2011), Museo de Arte de Ponce (2012), and Smithsonian American Art Museum (2013).

Ramirez’s work is in the collections of many museums, such as the Austin Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Crocker Art Museum, El Paso Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Newark Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Tarble Arts Center, The Hyde Collection, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Many prominent private collections also feature works by the artist.

SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Blackout: A Centennial Commission,” Newark Museum; curated by Evelyn Carmen Ramos; brochure.

2004 “Seriously Playful: Paul Henry Ramirez, 1995-2004”, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Gallery; curated by Kate Bonansiga, University of Texas, El Paso; catalog.

2002–2003 “Elevatious Transcendsualistic,” Tang Teaching Museum; curated by Ian Berry, Saratoga Springs, New York; catalog.

2002 Space Addiction, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris; curated by Shamim M. Momin, New York, New York; brochure.

2001 “Elevatious Transcendsualistic,” Contemporary Arts Center; curated by Sue Spaid, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1982 “Golden Girls,” Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez; curated by architect José Diego Lizárraga, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.