paul ramirez jonas n./b. 1965, california vive e trabalha em/lives and works in new york

formação / education

1987-1989 Master in Fine Arts, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA

1983-1987 Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Honors, Brown University, Providence, USA

exposições individuais / solo exhibitions

2017 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA (Mid Career Survey; Forthcoming, April 28-August 6, 2017)

2014 Over the Water, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA

2013 Aggregate, Koenig & Clinton, New York, USA Assembleia, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil Witness My Hand, Heliópolis, New York, USA

2011 Projeto Octógono Arte Contemporânea, Pinacoteca Do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Roesler Hotel #13: Paul Ramirez Jonas, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA Publicar, Pinacoteca Do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil

2010 Dictar y Recordar, Lamanchadetomate, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Key to the City, Creative Time, New York, USA

2009 Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA

2008 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA

2007 ABRACADABRA: I create as I Speak, The Jack S, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA Long Time, a permanent public sculpture for the Hudson River Park, New York, USA To be spoken out loud, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden

2005 Open, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, USA Taylor Square, a permanent public park for the city of Cambridge, Cambridge, USA

2004 Heavier than Air, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England Cornerhouse, Manchester, England

2003 The Earth, Seen From Above, LFL Gallery, New York, USA Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden The Earth, Seen From Above, Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA

2000 Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Holland

1998 Not the New, Not the Old, but the Necessary, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, USA Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden

1997 Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA

1996 Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA

1995 Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

1994 Heavier Than Air, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA Heavier Than Air, White Cube, London, England

1993 Jack Tilton Gallery (Project Room), New York, USA

1992 Christopher Grimes Gallery (Project Room), Santa Monica, California, USA Whirligig, White Columns, New York, USA

1990 AMANAPLANACANALPANAMA, Artists Space (Underground Project Room), New York, USA

exposições coletivas / group exhibitions

2015 Mensagem de Uma Nova América, 10ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Under the Same Sun, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Trio Bienal: Bienal Tridimensional do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Blueprint, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA The Blue of Distance, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA When You Cut Into the Present the Future Leaks Out, Old Bronxs Courthouse, New York, EUA Arts on the Point: Another Day, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Nómada 05: Registros/documentos, Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa, Tegucigalpa, Spain Organic Situation, Koenig & Clinton, New York, USA Very Fun Park, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan The Last Billboard, Jon Rubin project, Pittsburgh, USA

2014 Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA Fixing a Hole, Koenig & Clinton, New York, USA Blueprint 2.0, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, USA Retrospective Exhibition, The Shandaken Project, New York, USA Alumni Exhibitions: Part I, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, USA Prática Portátil, Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil It’s mine! Landscape and appropriation, MART, Roveretto, Italy In__we trust: art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA

2013 ReMODEL2: expanding the dialogue, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA Artists experiment, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Chasing horizons, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, USA

2012 Swap Meet: Artpace and the Dikeou Collection, Artpace, San Antonio, USA Now Here Is Also Nowhere: Part I, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA Paper, Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, FranCE El Panal/The Hive, Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2011 An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet, New York, USA An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Mass MoCA, North Adams, USA Barely There (Part II), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, EUA

2010 (to) give time to time, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia A Modular Framework / Un Marco Modular, Centro Cultural de Espana el Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador Landscape as an Attitude, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA Art on Speed, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, USA Exterritory, ex-territorial waters off the coasts of Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England What’s Left: Artworks made by a Public, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA Between, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden

2009 Fare Mondi / Hacer Mundos, Pabellon de America Latina, 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Grito e Escuta, 7th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Urban Stories, The Xth Baltic Triennale, Vilnius, Lithuania Free as Air and Water, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, New York, USA Los impoliticos, PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy

2008 28a, Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (In)visible Geographies: Contemporary Art in Latin America From the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Democracy in America Convergence Center, Creative Time, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA 41 Salón de Artistas, Cali, Colombia You & Me, Sometimes…, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA

2007 Sleeping and Dreaming, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Alemanha Sleeping and Dreaming, Wellcome Trust, London, England Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

2006 Until Then Then, Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver, Canada HyperDesign (6th Shanghai Biennial), Shanghai, China Gifts go in one direction, Apexart, New York, USA

2005 inSite_05, San Diego, California e Tijuana, Mexico The Plain of Heaven, Creative Time, New York, USA Collection Remixed: Selves and Others, Bronx Museum, New York, USA Marking Time: Moving Images, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA

2003 24 / 7, Siolaikinio meno centras / Contemporary art center, Vilnius, Lithuania The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA The Paper Sculpture Show, Diverse Works, Houston, USA Cultural Territories International, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

2002 Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More... On Collecting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, USA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, USA; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA

2001 Globe>Miami

2000 Media_City Seoul 2000, Seoul Biennial at Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea Wånas 2000, Wånas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden Ideal House, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela Apex, New York, USA New International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium

1999 Art Lovers, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England Panorama 2000, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland; Clementine Gallery, NY, New York; Center Gallery, Miami, USA; Dade Community College, Miami, USA; insideART, Chicago, USA; Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, USA; The New Museum, New York, USA; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

1998 Speed, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA Instituto Cultural Cabañas and Museo de las Artes in Guadalajara, Mexico Disappearing Act, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA

1997 Projects: Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Yukinori Yanagi, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland A Quality of Light, organized by St Yves International, Cornwall, UK with The Newlyn Art Gallery, Tate Gallery St Ives, and inIVA, London, England

1996 Contrafigura, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy Inclusion: Exclusion, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria Between the Acts, Icebox, Athens, Greece; C / O Gallery, Oslo, Norway

1995 Threshold, Fundação de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal Campo’95, Corderie dell Arsenale Venice, Italy Volatile Colonies, Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa Signs and Wonders, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1994 NYSP, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Lost in Thought, Manes, Prague, Czech Republic Paul Ramírez Jonas and David Shaw, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

1993 Space of Time - Contemporary Art of the Americas, The Americas Society, New York, NY; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA Fever, Exit Art, New York, NY; Wexner Art Center, Columbus, USA Nancy Megford, Gay Outlaw, and Paul Ramírez-Jonas, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA

1992 Fluxus Attitudes, The New Museum, New York, USA Detour, International House, New York, USA

1991 Brooklyn, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA Improvements? On the Ordinary, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, USA

1990 Selections From The Sculpture Center’s Unaffiliated Artist Slide File, The Sculpture Center, New York, USA

1989 Selections 49, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

arte pública / public art Now and There, Boston, USA (Forthcoming, September 2016) We make the treasure, San Francisco, USA

prêmios, bolsas e residências / awards, grants and residences

Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2009 Art Matters Grant, 2009 Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2009 RF CUNY research grant, 2008 Atlantic Center for the Arts, July-August, 2002 Edith Cowan University, Artist in Residence Program, June 2002 International Studio Program In Sweden (IASPIS), Artist in Residence, 1999 Art Awareness, Artist in Residence, Summer 1992 National Endowment for the Arts, Inter Arts exhibition grant for White Columns, 1991 Creative Times Citywide, with Spencer Finch, 1991 Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1988

bibliografia selecionada / selected books and catalogues

ADOLPHS, Volker & NORTEN, Philip; (eds.) Going Staying - Movement, Body, Space in Contemporary Art, Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2007 ANTELO-SUÁREZ, Sandra & TAGER, Alisa (ed.); Space of Time: Contemporary Art of the Americas, New York: The Americas Society, 1993 ANTELO-SUÁREZ, Sandra; Detour, New York: International House, 1992 ARAEEN, Rasheed, et al; Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg: Transitional Metropolitan Council, 1995 ARESTIZÁBAL, Irma (ed.); Arte contemporáneo de América Latina - 53rd Esposizione internazionale d’Arte, Roma: Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, 2009 BARDIER, Laura; Los Impoliticos, Naples: PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, 2010 BIRNBAUM, Daniel & VOLZ, Jochen (eds.); 53rd International Art Exhibition, Making Worlds vol. 2, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2009 BURTSCHER, Angelika & WIELANDER, Judith (eds.); visible: where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else, New York: Sternberg Press, 2010 CAMERON, Dan; New York Interrupted, Beijing: PKM Gallery, 2006 CAMERON, Dan; Threshold, Oporto: Fundação de Serralves, 1995 COHEN, Ana Paula & MESQUITA, Ivo (eds.); 28th Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação de São Paulo, 2008 Creative Time, 1991 and 1992 Creative Time, New York: Creative Time, 1992 Curiger, Bice, Signs and Wonders, Zurich: Kunsthaus, 1995 DEMEESTER, Ann & KESTUTIS, Kuizinas (eds.); The X Baltic Triennial of International Art - Vilnius, Lithuania, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Center, 2009 ELEEY, Peter, The Quick and the Dead, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008 ELEEY, Peter, The Plain of Heaven, New York: Creative Time, 2005 FOMINA, Julija & KESTUTIS, Kuizinas (eds.); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius: Contemporary Art Center, 2007 FORTES, Marcia; NYSP, São Paulo: Galeria Camargo Vilaça, 1994 GIBBONS, Joan & WINWOOD, Kaye (eds.); Hothaus Papers: Perspectives and Paradigms in Media Arts, Birmingham: VIVID, 2006 HEARTNEY, Eleanor; Art & Today, New York: Phaidon Press, 2008 HERNANDEZ, Chong Cuy Sofia (ed.); with an essay by Ines Katzenstein, et al, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004 KESTUTIS KUIZINAS & MALASAUSKAS, Raimundas, et al; 24 / 7 Newspaper, Vilnius: Center for Contemporary Art, 2003 KORALOVA, Ilina, SCHÄFER, Julia & STEINER, Barbara (eds.); The Cultural Territories, Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2003 LEGG, Helen & WATKINS, Watkins (eds.);From Audéoud to Zhao Bandi, Selected Ikon Off-site Projects 2002-2004 Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2005 LE FEUVRE, Lisa (ed.); Failure, Cambridge: MIT Press and London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2010 LUARD, Honey (ed.)White Cube, Vol, 1-2, Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2002 MADOFF, Steven Henry (ed.); Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2009 MESQUITA, Ivo & COHEN, Ana Paula; 28 Bienal de Sãn Paulo, Do Museu De Arte Moderna De São Paulo, 2008 MCPARLAND, Brenda; Projects: Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Wolfgang TILLMANS, Gillian; Wearing, Yukinori Yanagi, Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1997 MILLAR, Jeremy & LONDON, Barbara (eds.); Media City Seoul 2000, Seoul: The Organizing Committee, 2000 MONEM, Nadine Kathe (ed.); Sleeping and Dreaming, Dresden: Deutsches Hygiene- Museum Dresden in collaboration with Wellcome Collection, 2007 MORENO, Gean; Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents, Coral Gables: Centro Cultural Español, 2006 NOORTHOORN, Victoria (ed.); 7a Bienal do Mercosul, Grito e Escuta, Porto Alegre: Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, 2009 PELTASON, Ruth A. (ed.); Creative Time: The Book, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 PETERMAN, Dan; Improvements? On the Ordinary, Chicago: Randolph Street Gallery, 1991 PORTO DE SOUZA, Eduarda; “Questão de Confiança” Jornal Semanal da 28a Bienal de São Paulo (November 2008): 10; published weekly during the São Paulo Biennial as an insert in the Metro newspaper, RICHARD, Frances, et al…; The Paper Sculpture Book, New York: Independent Curators International, 2003 SÁNCHEZ, Osvaldo and CONWELL, Donna (eds.); [Situational] Public> Público [situacional], inSite_05 / Art Practices in the Public Domain San Diego-Tijuana, San Diego: Installation Gallery, 2006 SCHWARZ, Michael, et al…; Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age, London: Photographers’ Gallery, Trustees of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1998 THOMPSON, Nato; A Guide to Democracy in America, New York: Creative Time, 2008, WACHTMEISTER, Marika (ed.); Konsten på Wånas, Sweden: Byggförlaget, 2001 WEIBEL, Peter (ed.); Inklusion: Exclusion, Graz: Steirischer herbst 96, 1997 ZENGXIAN, Fang and Xu Jiang (eds.); With essays by Huang Du, Gianfranco Maraniello, Jonathan Watkins and others, Hyperdesign: 6th Shanghai Biennale, 2006

coleções públicas / public collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden New Museum, New York, NY Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA