Represented by MARS Gallery Editor-at-large at Running Dog Gallery Manager at SEVENTH

www.diegois.monster (or www.diego-ramirez.net) [email protected]

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Signs of the Undead, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne

2018 IMPERI❍: el borde de las tieneblas, Deslave, Tijuana Once More, With Diversity Feeling, Recess, Melbourne Postcard eXotica, PhotoAccess, Manuka Arts Centre, Canberra

2017 The Umbral Empire: Prologue, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Postcard eXotica, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth Postcard eXotica, Adelaide College of the Arts, Adelaide Delegated Performance (Radish), Melbourne Central Art Loop, Shopping Mall, Melbourne

2016 Postcard eXotica, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne

2015 My Material World, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne aXolotl’s Happiness, FELTspace, Adelaide aXolotl’s Happiness, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston aXolotl’s Happiness, Interior 2.1, Guadalajara

2014 aXolotl’s Smile, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Digimaster: The Ultimate Dream, The Substation, Melbourne Happy Summer Tank, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne sPICY, Trocadero Art Space (billboard), Melbourne

2013 Radish, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Multiverse curated by Charlotte Christie, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne No Show, Runway section curated by Nathan Beard, Carriageworks, Sydney April Fool, MARS Gallery, Melbourne Spring1883, Art fair with MARS Gallery, Melbourne

2020 Strange Uncertain Times, Grey Gardens Gallery, Melbourne

2019 Those Monuments Don’t Know Us curated by Andy Butler, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne Sydney Contemporary (NEXT), Art fair with MARS Gallery, Sydney Ventriloquy: Lifenessless curated by Joel Stern, West Space, Melbourne WTF is Lecture Performance?, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne MARS Video Exchange, MetroArts, Brisbane Hell curated by Melissa Deerson, KINGS ARI, Melbourne Studying food through video making, Ruang MES 56-Galeri RJ Katamsi, Indonesia, Yogyakarta

2018 Terror en lo Profundo curated by Deslave, Human Resources, LA Boxed Light, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Beyond The Veil curated by Jake Treacy, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne No Play, The Band Presents, Melbourne B-Side, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne Train/ennial, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne

2017 Necronomicon Uploaded, Deslave, Tijuana Art Central Hong Kong (Media X) curated by Linda Lai, Art fair with MARS Gallery, Hong Kong c3+, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne 17th Media Art Biennale WRO, Wroclaw Camouflage, Griffin Art Space (Koszyki Hall), Warsaw B-Side, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne

2016 Drawing to An End, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne The 39th Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs Melbourne Central Art Loop, Shopping Mall, Melbourne

2015 Flesh Express, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne Whyalla Art Prize, Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla Whyalla Art Prize, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Les Irrecuperables, Galerie du Genie de la Bastille, Paris Paramor Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Forever Now, MONAFOMA Festival, Hobart Forever Now, TRILOGIES, The Substation, Melbourne

2014 The Return of Ghosts, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei South curated by David Corbet, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney Nervous Tensions curated by Anabelle Lacroix, Careof, Milan Unco curated by Ian Haig, NCCA, Parap The Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne

2013 WRO 15th Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney Unco curated by Ian Haig, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles Mada Now, Monash University, Melbourne

2012 Graduation Show, RMIT University, Melbourne Videoooooh, The Slade School of Fine Art, London Night-Sun-Day (Desert Equinox), Broken Hill

WRITING

2021 Thorns and Prickles, Shine like Gold: Towards a sonic Marian apparition, Disclaimer Journal, Melbourne Fuck Dying, Catalogue essay for Georgia Banks, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne The Creed, Catalogue essay for Nadia Hernández, Station, Sydney Feature on Jake Treacy and Dord Burrough, 50 things collectors should know Issue, Art Collector Melbourne Feature on Katie Paine, Undiscovered Issue, Art Collector, Melbourne Dragonology: A PhD proposal, Catalogue essay for Michael Kennedy, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne Feature on Cyrus Tang, CoBo Social, Hong Kong Feature on Hayley Millar Baker, CoBo Social, Hong Kong Feature on Lucreccia Quintanilla, CoBo Social, Hong Kong

2020 Uncivil Optimism: art and writing in times of pestilence, Running Dog, Sydney   : Nathan Beard, Catalogue essay for HERE&NOW20, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth Feature on Phuong Ngo, Undiscovered Issue, Art Collector, Melbourne Feedback Loops, Australian Book Review, Melbourne So Melbourne, Special Issue S, Melbourne Feature on Caleb Shea, The Natsiaa Issue, Art Collector, Melbourne

2019 Unnatural Hunger: the copy, the vampire and postcolonial anxieties, Island Island, Melbourne Felt cute might delete never: Andy Butler’s All-in-One Solution for Glowing Fairness’, un Extended, Melbourne Escape to Aphelion, Catalogue essay for Alicia King, Linden, Melbourne Do The Creep, Catalogue essay for Emile Zile & Annika Koops, Bus Projects, Melbourne Wicked Hotel: Neon Parc at Spring1883, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Waiting, Dead End Film Festival Program, Melbourne The Falling Star, Catalogue essay for Alexandra Nemaric, TCB Inc, Melbourne PoC Barometer (or what I really think about the conversation we had at the gallery opening), Art Speak by Metroarts, Brisbane Mary, Holy Mary, Catalogue essay for A Treasured Private Notebook, CCP, Melbourne and Metroarts, Brisbane

2018 Racial Phantasmagoria: The Demonisation of the other in Richard Mosse’s Incoming, Issue #Mapping, NECSUS, Amsterdam Nosferatu on Reddit: Hito Steyerl’s Factory of the Sun, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Semiotic Dungeons, A+a: Art and Australia, Issue Three (54.2): Unnaturalism, Melbourne The Will of Sound and Image: TarraWarra Biennial 2018, Runway Conversations, Sydney

Floating Megalopolis: Dwelling Poetically curated by Chris Sharp, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne *dumb brun(ette) vol.1, co-editor with Katie Paine, Bus Projects x NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair, Melbourne Illicit Love, Catalogue essay (with Katie Paine) for Collaboratory, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo The Foaming Node: A Mutant Cult and Television, Horror Homeroom, Online Interview with Miko Revereza, Recess, Online

2017 Ghost Stories of Sadism: notes on micro-racism, Catalogue essay for Always There And All A Part, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne Bermuda Triangle: Repertoires of Contention, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Techno-Ghoul, Catalogue essay for Aaron Christopher Rees, First Draft, Sydney *Republished in The Article, Melbourne Alexandra Nemaric: Faith In The Perishability of Love, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne Another Space: VR Eyeballs and CGI Limbs, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne Lucreccia Quintanilla: The Void After The Colonies, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne The Ryan Sisters: Dark Pit, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne Triple F: Tribulations and Western Hallucinations, The Article, Melbourne Phuong Ngo: Post-Apocalypse Now, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne Héctor Jiménez: Guadalajara 666, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne The Will to Death, Catalogue essay for Inherent Vice, Nicholas Projects, Melbourne A Spoiled Egg, Catalogue essay for Si Ma Va, Bus Projects, Melbourne Pandemonium, Catalogue essay for Maria Miranda and Amie Anderson, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne Backgammon, Catalogue essay for Deanna Hitti, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne The Nightmare of Nathaniel Ward, Catalogue essay for Ara Dolatian, Five Walls, Melbourne

2016 Super Phalluses and Western Clutter, A+a: Art and Australia, Melbourne The Act of Misplacing, Catalogue Essay for Katie Paine, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne A Freak Encounter: anime fans and the friki subculture, Fragmented Magazine #3, Melbourne

2015 Happy Summer Tank: the politics of gender, race and memory in cosplay, CCC Journal #4, London Cerveza Corona!, catalogue essay for Jeremy Eaton, Kings ARI, Melbourne Pop Necromancer, catalogue essay for Bon Mott, Kings ARI, Melbourne MIS-, catalogue essay for Tom Ames and Lucie McIntosh, Kings ARI, Melbourne About Airplanes, catalogue essay for Matt Rochford, Archive ARI, Sydney

2014 The aXolotl: a vehicle for knowledge and the postcolonial ‘return’, Runway #26, Sydney Collider, Catalogue Essay for MVAS, Kings ARI, Melbourne Money Map, Catalogue Essay for MT Walker, Rubicon ARI,Melbourne Thinking through humour, Catalogue Essay for Avni Dauti and Tom Parsons, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne JF Payne and the dematerialization of cinema, Catalogue Essay for JF Payne, Kings ARI, Melbourne

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021-23 Panel Member, Darebin Art & Heritage Advisory Panel, Melbourne

2021-24 Peer Assessor, Australia Council, Melbourne

2020- Editor-at-large, Running Dog, Sydney Portfolio Reviewer, Aarhus Centre for Visual Art x Art Weekend Aarhus, Denmark

2020-24 External Assessor, City of Melbourne Arts Grants Panel, Melbourne

2019 Assessment Panel, Video Visions, Channels Festival: International Biennale of Video Art, Melbourne

2018- Gallery Manager, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

2018 Producer, Neutron Star, workshop with Guillermo Gomez Peña and La Pocha Nostra, Melbourne Board Member, Exhibition Liaison and Curatorial Mentor, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne

2017-18 Co-editor and founder with Katie Paine, *dumb brun(ette), Melbourne

EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT

2021 Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions, ACCA, Melbourne

2020 The White Pube workshop: how to write from the Self, P2P, Sydney First Nations Cultural Safety, NETS Victoria, Melbourne

Managing Curatorial Risk, NETS Victoria, Melbourne Best practice approaches for working inclusively with artists with disability, NETS Victoria, Melbourne Building A Culturally Competent Organisation, Non-Profit Training x Yarra Council, Melbourne When Anxiety Builds: working with people experiencing anxiety, Grief Centre, New Zealand Finance Fundamentals, Business Victoria, Melbourne A-Z of Volunteer Management Workshop, Volunteering Victoria x Yarra Council, Melbourne

2014 Honours Degree of Fine Arts, Monash University, Melbourne

2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2020 FUSE Darebin grant, Melbourne Rising Festival: seed funding, with Andy Butler, Melbourne

2016 City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program, Melbourne The 39th Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

2015 Finalist in Whyalla Art Prize, Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla Finalist in Whyalla Art Prize, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Finalist in Paramor Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula Finalist in Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle

2014 Finalist in The Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne Finalist in Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne

2013 Summer Studio Residency, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne Finalist in Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne Finalist in Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, NAS Gallery, Sydney

SCREENINGS

2020 Dramas De Otro Mundo, curated by Deslave, UV estudios, Buenos Aires

2018 Diego Ramirez: Towards The Umbral curated by Anabelle Lacroix, ACMI x ACCA, Melbourne Anniversary Screening, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver

2017 Delegated Performance (Radish), Videohouse 2, Deslave, Tijuana Orientations: Pushing Boundaries curated by Linda Lai, EXiS, Art Sonje Centre, Seoul Glow Arts Festival, Melbourne

2016 IVAM, Centro de Artes de Vanguardia, La Neomudéjar, Madrid Miami New Media Festival, Miami Auckland Underground Film Festival, Auckland

2015 The Return of Ghosts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei FIVA 05: Festival Internacional de Video Arte, Buenos Aires 29. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart 7th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, New York Build your own world, Festival Miden, Kalamata Currents New Media Festival (Ex-Docs), New Mexico Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales

2014 Directors Lounge, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen 27th Instants Video, Friche La Belle de Mai and [.BOX] Gallery, Marseille and Milan Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival, KLEX, Kuala Lumpur 6th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo FILE 2014 – Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria Melbourne Now’s Rooftop Transmissions, Melbourne Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham Festival Miden, Kalamata Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque

Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart Experimental Film Festival Portland, Portland Videoholica, Varna The Land Down Underground, New York

2013 Channels Video Art Festival, ACMI, Melbourne Currents Santa Fe International New Media, New Mexico Video Art Review, Contemporary Art Gallery BWA, Olsztyn -Colony of Artists, Gdansk -Labirynt Gallery, Lublin -Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw -Bureau for Art Exhibition, Kielce -Municipal Cultural Center, Nowy Sacz -KOT Film Society, Nowy Sacz -Museum in Koszalin, Koszalin -Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko-Biala -Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warzaw -KINO.LAB, Warzaw -Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok -13 Muses Gallery, Szczecin -Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz -Contemporary Art Gallery, Przemysl -Bureau for Art Exhibitions, Zielona Gora -Centre For Contemporary Art Kronika, Bytom -Art Centre – Sielecki Castle, Sosnowiec -Cultural Centre, Suwalki -Centre Of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun -Arsenal Gallery, Poznan -City Art Gallery, Czestochowa -Museum of Art, Lodz -Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta IX Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Buenos Aires MADATAC 05, Madrid Columbus International Film and Video Festival, Columbus Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria International Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv South Texas Underground Film Festival, Texas Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne Brisbane Underground Film Festival, Brisbane Videoholica, Varna Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston Byron Bay International Film Festival, Byron Bay

2012 MADATAC 04, Madrid 25th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille La Médiathèque Louis Aragon, Martigues Art School of Rennes, France BOX Videoart, Milan Festival Video Bardo, Buenos Aires Bibliotheca Alexandrina Arts Center, Alexandria Visualcontainer.TV, Online Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria VIII Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Buenos Aires Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne Columbus International Film and Video Festival, Columbus South Texas Underground Film Festival, Texas Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv Videoholica, Varna WNDX Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg Brisbane Underground Film Festival, Brisbane flEXiff Experimental International Film Festival, Sydney Close Up 2nd International Video Festival, Puerto Vallarta Denver Underground Film Festival, Denver International Streaming Festival, Online

SPEAKER AND LECTURES

2021 Panel, Print Screen, NGV, Melbourne Interview, ARTv Episode 19, Melbourne MADA SS: Portfolio Workshop, Art Panel, Monash University, Melbourne Guest Speaker, Art Writing and Criticism, Monash University, Melbourne

2020 Guest Speaker, Professional Development, VCA, Melbourne Interview, QIQ Pods, Melbourne

2019 Guest Lecture, Art Enterprise Workshop, RMIT, Melbourne FAST Tour and Colleges, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne The Horrible Affair Between A Sadistic Text and a Masochistic Text, WRITING & CONCEPTS, West Space, Melbourne Panel on Picasso, ABC The Mix: Episode 9, Ballarat Interview, FORUM, Kiss FM, Melbourne Interview, Sunday Arts Magazine, JOY 94.9, Melbourne Interview, SBS En Español, Melbourne Interview, Channels Video Festival, Melbourne

2018 Q&A with Anabelle Lacroix, ACCA Podcast, Melbourne Co-Chair with Anita Spooner and Hanann Al Daqqa, Decolonize This Place x SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne Three Bellybuttons Podcast with Siying Zhou and Jeremy Eaton, Melbourne Films by Jet Leyco, in conversation with Liv Koh and Jet Leyco, Arena Project Space, Melbourne

2017 Semiotic Dungeons (Draft), The Unstable Body and Its Image, Experimenta Social #12 curated by Emile Zile, ACMI X, Melbourne Panel, Critical: Hybrid Practice chaired by Katie Paine, RMIT First Site, Melbourne Artist Talk, Postcard eXotica, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth

2016 Panel, Critical: Video Bootcamp chaired by Brie Trenerry, Linden New Art, Melbourne Q&A with Brendan McCleary, Postcard eXotica, ACMI, Melbourne

2015 Artist Talk, My Material World, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Artist Talk, aXolotl’s Happiness, FELTspace, Adelaide Q&A with Melissa Matveyeff and Bianca Tainsh, Flesh Express, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne

2014 Artist Talk, Happy Summer Tank, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne Artist Talk, aXolotl’s Smile, South curated by David Corbet, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 Treasure Hunt, Fiona McGregor, Saturday Paper, Sydney

2020 Essay about Those Monuments Don’t Know Us by Andy Butler, Art + Australia, Melbourne

2019 Review of Those Monuments Don’t Know Us by Neika Lehman, The Saturday Paper, Melbourne Catalogue essay for Those Monuments Don’t Know Us by Jessica Clark, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne What does the word vampire make you think of? By Ainslee Meredith, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne

2018 Daily Demons and Fabulous Animals, Fantastic Animals Issue, Garland magazine, Melbourne Highlights from a rich and varied Canberra art scene by Peter Haynes, Brisbane Times, Brisbane Two shows by Peter Haynes, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney

2017 Apparitions of Imperial Pestilence, Catalogue Essay by Katie Paine, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Levitated Potentiality: moving images at Art Central 2017, Linda Lai, Floating Projects, Online Unpacking The Universe of Postcard eXotica, Katie Paine, Postcard eXotica (Dossier), Melbourne Catalogue Essay, Amelia Winata, Postcard eXotica (Dossier), Melbourne Postcard eXotica (Dossier), Published for the occasion of Postcard eXotica, Melbourne

2016 Catalogue Essay, Amelia Winata, Postcard exotica, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Editorial Review, Katie Paine, Art Kollectiv, Melbourne 39th Alice Prize, Catalogue Booklet, Araulen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

2015 A Sashimi Enchilada, Ashley Crawford, Catalogue Essay for My Material World, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne Flesh Express, Bianca Tainsh, Catalogue Essay for Flesh Express, BLINDSIDE ARI, Melbourne

40th Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Catalogue Booklet, Fremantle

2014 I AM, HE IS, IS HE?, Anabelle Lacroix, Catalogue Essay for aXolotl’s Smile, [MARS] Gallery, Melbourne South 1, Catalogue Book, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney The Return of Ghosts, Catalogue Book, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei What happened to the underground?, Catalogue Book, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart The Incinerator Art Award, Catalogue Booklet, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne Videoholica, Catalogue Booklet, Varna Klex, Catalogue Booklet, Kuala Lumpur Antimatter, Catalogue Booklet, Victoria

2013 Channels, Catalogue Booklet, Melbourne WRO 15th Media Art Biennale, Catalogue Book and DVD, Wroclaw Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, Catalogue Booklet, Sydney Antimatter, Catalogue Booklet, Victoria