Paul Ramírez Jonas

Paul Ramírez Jonas is a practicing artist and educator whose work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include Museo Jumex, Mexico City; The New Museum, NYC; Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo; The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Connecticut; The Blanton Museum, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK) in 2004, and a 25-year survey at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2017. Selected group exhibitions at P.S.1, the Brooklyn Museum, The Whitechapel (UK), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland), and Kunsthaus Zurich. He participated in the 1st Johannesburg Biennale, 1st Seoul Biennial, 6th Shanghai Biennial, 28th Sao Paulo Biennial, 53rd Venice Biennial, and 7th and 10th Bienal do Mercosul. In 2010, his Key to the City project was presented by Creative Time in cooperation with the City of New York, and in 2022 with Fierce and Birmingham 2022 Festival in Birmingham, UK. In 2016, his Public Trust project was presented by Now & There in Boston. Public Trust continues to be exhibited every year in diverse public settings. His most recent project, a large-scale participatory monument, was installed in the National Mall in Washington, DC, in the summer of 2023 in an exhibition curated by Monument Lab.

Before coming to Cornell in 2021, Ramírez Jonas was an Associate Professor of Art at Hunter College in Brooklyn, New York, where he taught for nearly 15 years. Ramírez Jonas earned a B.A. from Brown University (1987) and an M.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (1989). He is represented by the Galeria Nara Roesler in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and New York.

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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

• Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2009)
• Art Matters Grant (2009)
• Howard Foundation Fellowship (2009)
• Atlantic Center for the Arts, July-August (2002)
• International Studio Program In Sweden (IASPIS), Artist in Residence, Summer / Fall (1999)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

• Public Trust, Birmingham, Leeds, Hounslow, Gloucester, Bradford, Stockton-on-Tees, Hull, Luton, UK (2023-2024)
• Beyond Granite, National Mall, Washington DC (2023)
• Key to the City, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK (2022)
• The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2022)

Publications (Selected)

• Daderko, Dean ed., with essays by Bill Arning, Claire Barliant, Shannon Jackson and Dean Daderko, Paul Ramírez Jonas: Atlas, Plural, Monumental. New York: Dancing Foxes Press, 2017.
• Garcia Waldman, Alexandra ed., with essays by Kate Gilbert, and Alexander Provan. Paul Ramirez Jonas: Public Trust. Sao Paulo: APC, 2016.
• Hernandez Chong Cuy, Sofia ed., with an essay by Ines Katzenstein, et al., Paul Ramirez Jonas. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004.