PAUL RAMÍREZ JONAS Born 1965, California Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION 2012 Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Expected Doctor Of Philosophy 1989 MFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1987 BA Brown University, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS 2014 We Make the Treasure, San Francisco Exploratorium, CA
2013 Paul Ramírez Jonas: Aggregate, Koenig & Clinton, New York Assembleia, Nara Roesler, São Paulo Witness My Hand, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Nara Roesler, São Paulo Alexander Gray Associates, New York Publicar, Pinacoteca Do Estado, São Paulo
2010 Dictar y Recordar, Lamanchadetomate, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Key to the City, Creative Time, New York
2009 Alexander Gray Associates, New York
2008 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2007 ABRACADABRA: I Create as I Speak, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Long Time, a permanent public sculpture for the Hudson River Park, New York To be spoken out loud, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
2005 Open, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, MA Taylor Square, a permanent public park for the city of Cambridge, MA
2004 Heavier than Air, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester
2003 The Earth, Seen From Above, LFL Gallery, New York Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm The Earth, Seen From Above, Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2000 Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
1998 Not the New, Not the Old, but the Necessary, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
1997 Postmasters Gallery, New York
1996 Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm Postmasters Gallery, New York
1995 Studio Guenzani, Milan
1994 Heavier Than Air, Postmasters Gallery, New York Heavier Than Air, White Cube, London
1993 Jack Tilton Gallery (Project Room), New York
1992 Christopher Grimes Gallery (Project Room), Santa Monica, CA Whirligig, White Columns, New York
1990 AMANAPLANACANALPANAMA, Artists Space (Underground Project Room), New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Condensed Matter Community, Synchrotron Radiation Center: Home of Aladdin, Stoughton, WI Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Museuo Jumex, Mexico City Messages from America, 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil Organic Situation, Koenig & Clinton, New York Very Fun Park, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana Arts On the Point, University of Massachusetts, Boston When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out, curated by Regine Basha for No Longer Empty, Old Bronx Courthouse, New York The Blue of Distance, Aspen Art Museum, CO Blueprint, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
2014 Shandaken Project Retrospective Exhibition, The Shandaken Project, Storm King, New york In ___ We Trust: Art and Money Exhibition, Columbus Museum of Art, OH Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, Brooklyn Museum, NY Fixing a Hole, Koenig & Clinton, New York Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Pérez Art Museum Miami Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Lost in Landscape, Il Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy Blueprint/ Blauwdruk, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, the Netherlands 250th Alumni Exhibition, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2013 ReMODEL2: Expanding the dialogue, Claremont Graduate University, CA Chasing Horizons, curated by Nirmal Raja and Christopher Willey, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Milwaukee, WI Shine a Light, Portland Art Museum, OR
2012 Now Here is also Nowhere: Part I, curated by Luis Croquer with assistance from Merith Bennett, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle Swap Meet: Artpace and the Dikeou Collection, curated by Devin Dikeou, Artpace, San Antonio, TX Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, directed by Elvis Fuentes, curated by Edward J. Sullivan, Lowery Stokes Sims, Gerald Alexis and Yolanda Wood Pujols, El Museo del Barrio, New York Twenty Years After, Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, CO Particles, Messen De Clercq, Brussels Because Dreaming is Best Done in Public: Creative Time in Public Spaces, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, New York El Panal/The Hive, Trienal Poli/gráfiaca de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, San Juan, Puerto Rico Los Impoliticos, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
2011 Red, Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet, New York, NY; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA Barely There (Part II), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
2010 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 (to) give time to time, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia Art on Speed, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS Exterritory, ex-territorial waters off the coasts of Lebanon, Cypress, Turkey, among other countries Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England Summer Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia What’s Left: Artworks made by a Public, Alexander Gray Associates, New York Between, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
2009 A Group Show, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm Fare Mondi/Hacer Mundos, Pabellon de America Latina, 53rd Venice Biennial Los Impoliticos, PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy Grito e Escuta, 7th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Urban Stories, The Xth Baltic Triennale, Vilnius, Lithuania 3rd International Festival of Electronic Arts and Video Transitio_mx 03, Autonomies of Disagreement, Centro Nacional de Artes - Centro Multimedia, Mexico City Free as Air and Water, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, New York Underwater, Western Bridge, Seattle
2008 28a. Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo 41 Salón de Artistas, Cali, Colombia
(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 Emergency Art Care, Bourgas, Bulgaria PDF Show, Y Gallery, Queens, NY; La Casa Encenidada, Madrid; Bastard, Oslo, Norway; Brown Gallery, London; Hiromiyoshii, Tokyo; among other venues Summer Reading, Hosfelt Gallery, New York You & Me, Sometimes…, Lehmann Maupin, New York Playtime, Bétonsalon, Paris
2007 Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia the backroom, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement, inSite (San Diego/Tijuana) and Creative Time (New York), in collaboration with The Cooper Union, School of Art, New York Going Staying, Movement, Body, Space in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany Sleeping and Dreaming, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany; Wellcome Trust, London
2006 Subito sera, Galleria Zero, Milan Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents, Centro Cultural Español, Coral Gables, FL Until Then Then, Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver, Canada HyperDesign (6th Shanghai Biennial) Gifts go in one direction, Apexart, New York New York, Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing
2005 Dreaming of A More Better Future, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH The Backroom, The Backroom, Los Angeles The Plain of Heaven, Creative Time, New York inSite_05, San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico Collection Remixed: Selves and Others, Bronx Museum, NY This must be the place, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Marking Time: Moving Images, Miami Art Museum Intuition Box, Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C. From Audeoud to Zhao Bandi, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
2004 Art in the Office, The Global Consulting Group, New York 1:100, DCKT Contemporary, New York Ebay: Buy or Sell or Buy, Pace Digital Gallery, [http://www.pace.edu/digitalgallery] The Sneeze 80 x 80, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens; Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2007); Durban Art Gallery, South Africa (2007) For Nothing, The Bank, Midland, Western Australia Me, Myself and I, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2003 24/7, Siolaikinio meno centras/Contemporary art center, Vilnius, Lithuania The Square Show, Bloomberg Space, London The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, New York; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL; among other venues. Cultural Territories International, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Road Show, George Adams Gallery, New York The Lengths, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Pictured, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
2002 Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More... On Collecting, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Akron Art Museum, OH; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Initial Spectrum, Spectrum, Perth, Australia Another Day, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
2001 Globe>Miami
2000 Media_City Seoul 2000, Seoul Biennial at Seoul Metropolitan Museum as well as various electronic billboards and subway stations in Seoul Wånas 2000, Wånas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden Ideal House, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Apex, New York (2001); New International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium (2001); Gallery 400, College of Art and Architecture, Chicago (2002) Full Serve, Rove, New York The End, Exit Art, New York
1999 Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Panorama 2000, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands Altoids Collection, Clementine Gallery, New York; Center Gallery, Miami Dade Community College; insideART, Chicago; Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; The New Museum, New York (2001); San Francisco Art Institute (2000)
1998 Speed, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; The Photographer’s Gallery, London Double Trouble. The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Instituto Cultural Cabañas and Museo de las Artes in Guadalajara, Mexico Disappearing Act, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York Blade Runner, Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York
Time to Kill, The Pineapple, Mälmo, Sweden Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm Collection Service, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
1997 Projects: Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Yukinori Yanagi, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin A Quality of Light, organized by St Yves International, Cornwall, England, with The Newlyn Art Gallery, Tate Gallery St Ives, and inIVA, London among other venues Projects.doc, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1996 Contrafigura, Studio Guenzani, Milan Inclusion: Exclusion, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria Between the Acts, Icebox, Athens, Greece; C/O Gallery, Oslo, Norway A Scattering Matrix, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Thin Air: Examining the Ethereal, Elsa Matt Ives Gallery, New York Adicere Animos, Cesena, Italy History and Memory, Haggar Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
1995 Threshold, Fundação de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal Campo ’95, Corderie dell Arsenale Venice Volatile Colonies, part of Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg Signs and Wonders, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Guys and Dolls, Postmasters Gallery, New York
1994 NYSP, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo Lost in Thought, Manes, Prague Paul Ramírez Jonas and David Shaw, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Up the Establishment, Independent Curators benefit, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Return of the Exquisite Corpse, The Drawing Center, New York
1993 Space of Time - Contemporary Art of the Americas, The Americas Society, New York; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami (1995) Fever, Exit Art, New York; Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH (1994) Nancy Megford, Gay Outlaw, and Paul Ramírez-Jonas, New Langton Arts, San Francisco Add Hot Water, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York American Gothic, Art in General, New York Tele-Aesthetics, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York In Transit, The New Museum, New York Washburn Gallery, New York
1992 Fluxus Attitudes, The New Museum, New York Detour, International House, New York Compiler, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
1991 Brooklyn, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York Improvements? On the Ordinary, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
Certainty Uncertainty, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York Open Bar, Flamingo East, New York Unlearning, 73 Greene Street, New York Better Homes and Monuments, Prospect Park, Defenders Arch, New York
1990 Selections From The Sculpture Center’s Unaffiliated Artist Slide File, The Sculpture Center, New York $PENT: Currency, Security, and Art on Deposit, The New Museum/Marine Midland Bank, New York
1989 Selections 49, The Drawing Center, New York Group Show, BACA Downtown, New York
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES IN COLLABORATION 2015 Dixit, curated by Julieta González, arteBA, Buenos Aires
2010 Always New, Always Familiar, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo duetto, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
2007 Going Staying, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2005 Marking Time: Moving Images, Miami Art Museum
2003 Janine Antoni and Paul Ramírez Jonas, Miami Art Museum
2002 Walkways, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (2003); Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (2003); Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin (2003); Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Ontario (2003); Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Oakville, Ontario (2003); Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA (2004)
2000 BüroFriedrich, Berlin Walking, Bucknell Art Gallery, Normal, IL Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo Horizons, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm Moving Pictures, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1999 Art Lovers, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
1996 Apples and Oranges, performance, The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, New York
1993 Literal Truth, Real Art Ways, Harford, CT
1992 Telephone, performance, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
1991 Masterpieces Without the Director, self-guided audio tour for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Creative Time, New York Enemies of Promise, performance in collaboration with Spencer Finch at 142 Greene Street, New York
1989 Containment, performance in collaboration with Spencer Finch at Brown University, Providence, RI Book Smelling, performance in collaboration with Spencer Finch, Benefit Street Post Office, Providence, RI
1988 Collaborative performance and installation with Spencer Finch at Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2014 Artist Experiment, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2013 Shine a Light, in collaboration with the Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA Program, Portland Art Museum, OR
2009 Specials (Janine Antoni, Byron Kim, Simon Leung, Glen Ligon, Suzanne McClelland, Kiki Smith and Fred Wilson), in collaboration with Lisa Sigal, Cabinet, New York Specials (Allan McCollum and Dave McKenzie), in collaboration with Lisa Sigal, Cabinet, New York Specials (Anissa Mack and Robert Gober), in collaboration with Lisa Sigal, The Old American Can Factory, New York
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES Mosquera, Gerardo. Perduti nel paesaggio. Verona, Italy: EBS, 2014: 94. [ill. Ghost of Progress, 2002] Adolphs, Volker, and Philip Norten, eds. Going Staying - Movement, Body, Space in Contemporary Art. Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2007. Antelo-Suárez, Sandra. Detour. New York: International House, 1992. Antelo-Suárez, Sandra, and Alisa Tager, eds. Space of Time: Contemporary Art of the Americas. New York: The Americas Society, 1993. 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 la Biennale di Venezia. Roma: Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, 2009. Art Basel Miami Beach. 2010. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010. Bardier, Laura. Los Impoliticos. Naples: PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, 2010. Becker, Carol. Living as Form. New York: Creative Time Books; Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012. Birnbaum, Daniel, and Jochen Volz, eds. 53rd International Art Exhibition, Making Worlds vol. 2, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2009. Bos, Saskia, and Lam, Steven. Free as Air and Water. New York: Cooper Union School of Art, 2010. Burtscher, Angelika, and Judith Wielander, 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. Carroll, Jerome. Art at the Limits of Perception: The Aesthetic Theory of Wolfgang Welsch. Bern: Peter Lang, AG, International Academic Publishers, 2006. Cohen, Ana Paula, and Ivo Mesquita, eds. 28th Bienal de São Paulo. Fundação de São Paulo, 2008. Creative Time. 1991 and 1992 Creative Time. New York: Creative Time, 1992.
Cullen, Deborah. El Panal/The Hive. Trienla Poli/Grafica de San Juan. San Juan: Programa de Artes Plàsticas, Instituto de Culturs Puertorriqueña, Antiguo de Arsenal de la Marina Española, 2012. Curiger, Bice. Signs and Wonders. Zurich: Kunsthaus, 1995. Demeester, Ann, and Kuizinas Kestutis, eds. The X Baltic Triennial of International Art - Vilnius, Lithuania. Vilnius: Contemporary Art Center, 2009. Desmett, Don. Collection Service. Cleveland: Spaces, 1998. Eleey, Peter. The Plain of Heaven. New York: Creative Time, 2005. Eleey, Peter. The Quick and the Dead. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008. Exploratorium. Over the Water: Paul Ramírez Jonas. Eds. Leigh Markopoulos and Marina McDougall. Oakland: Solstice Press, 2014. Fortes, Marcia. NYSP. São Paulo: Galeria Camargo Vilaça, 1994. Heartney, Eleanor. Art & Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2008. Helguera, Pablo. Education for Socially Engaged Art. New York: Jorge Pinto Books, 2011. Hernandez Chong Cuy, Sofia ed. with an essay by Ines Katzenstein, et al., Paul Ramirez Jonas. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004. Horodner, Stuart. The Art Life: On Creativity and Career. Atlanta: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2012. Horodner, Stuart. Walk Ways. New York: Independent Curators International, 2002. Jackson, Shannon. Social Works: performing art, supporting publics. New York: Routledge, 2011. Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. The Residue of Memory. Aspen: Aspen Art Museum; Aspen Art Press, 2012. Kestutis Kuizinas, and Malasauskas, Raimundas, et al., 24/7 Newspaper. Vilnius: Center for Contemporary Art, 2003. Koralova, Ilina, and Schäfer, Julia, and Steiner, Barbara, eds. The Cultural Territories, Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2003. Le Feuvre, Lisa, ed. Failure. Cambridge: MIT Press and London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2010. Legg, Helen, and Watkins, Watkins, eds. From Audéoud to Zhao Bandi. Selected Ikon Off-site Projects 2002-2004. Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2005. Luard, Honey, ed. White Cube. Vol. 1-2. Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2002. 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 and Barbara London, eds. Media City Seoul 2000. Seoul: The Organizing Committee, 2000. Modrak, Rebekkah and Anthes, Bill. Reframing Photography. New York: Routledge, 2011. Monem, Nadine Kathe, ed. Sleeping and Dreaming. Dresden: Deutsches Hygiene- Museum Dresden; London: Black Dog Publishing and 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. Orlando, Margo. Collection Remixed. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2005. Peeters, Wim. The Big Show. Antwerp: New International Cultural Center, 2002.
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. Ross, Lauren. Art Sites on the Highline. New York: Friends of the High Line, 2010. Sánchez, Osvaldo and Donna Conwell, 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. St. Ives International. A Quality of Light. Penzance: St. Ives International, 1997. Thompson, Nato. A Guide to Democracy in America. New York: Creative Time, 2008. Thompson, Nato. Living as Form. New York: Creative Time Books; Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012. Vincentelli, Alessandro. Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound. Gateshead: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 2010. Wachtmeister, Marika, ed. Konsten på Wånas, Sweden: Byggförlaget, 2001. Weelden van, Dirk. Panorama 2000. Utrecht: Central Museum, 2000. 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.
CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROJECTS IN MAGAZINES/JOURNALS/BOOKS 2013 “Dear Class,” Art & Social Practice Workbook, April 1.
2012 “Exchanges: Debating Occupy,” Art in America, No. 6 June/July. “Pirate Utopias #0,” Pirate Press.
2009 Bancroft, Shelly, Peter Nesbett and Rebecca Sears, eds. with an essay by Paul Ramirez Jonas, and others. Diaries of a Young Artist. NY, New York: Darte Publishing LLC, 2009. Finkelpearl, Tom and Smith, Valerie. Generation 1.5. Queens: Queens Museum of Art, 2009. Madoff, Steven Henry, editor with a contribution by Paul Ramirez Jonas, and others. Art School: (proposition for the 21st Century). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009.
2008 “Inventory/ The Present of Past Things,” Cabinet, Issue 31, Autumn 2008. “Poet, Explorer, Innovator, Scavenger, Jester,” ARTnews, Summer 2008: 158.
2006 Gibbons, Joan and Winwood, Kaye, eds. Hothaus Papers. Perspectives and Paradigms in Media Arts, Birmingham, England: VIVID, 2006.
2003 “AMNESIA,” ZingMagazine, Issue 17, 2003. “Land Acquisition Project” with Sina Najafi and Jeffrey Kastner, Cabinet, Issue 10, Autumn 2003.
2002 “Magellan’s Itinerary. A Reproduction” ZingMagazine, Issue 16, 2002. “Postcard 1: Experiments in Plant Hybridisation”, Cabinet, Issue 6, Autumn 2002.
2001 “Paper Sculpture Show” (curated by Matt Freedman), Cabinet, Issue 4, Autumn 2001. When Nature Becomes History” (artist multiple; journal print run 5000), Trans>arts.culture.media, Issue 9/10, 2001.
2000 “100,” ZingMagazine, Issue 14, 2000.
1993 “Art Project,” Open City, Issue 2, 1993.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2015 Heyward, Anna. “Parse Co-Director Amy Mackie On Shaping The New Orleans Art Scene.” Art News, 29 January 2015. [online]
2014 Pantuso, Phillip. “Crossing Brooklyn: Paul Ramirez Jonas, The Commons.” Brooklyn Magazine, 30 October 2014. [online] Starker, Melissa. “Works inspire reflection on links between art, money.” The Columbus Dispatch, 12 October 2014. [online] Jones, Karen. “On View: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Beyond at the Brooklyn Museum.” www.NewYork.com, 6 October 2014. [online] Regatao, Gisele. “Horses, Masks, Speeches and Other Art Made in Brooklyn.” WNYC, 5 October 2014. [online] Johnson, Ken. “The Artist Next Door – ‘Crossing Brooklyn,’ Local Talent at Brooklyn Museum.” The New York Times, 2 October 2014. [online] Cotter, Holland. “Arriving Late to the Party, but Dancing on All the Clichés.” The New York Times, Art & Design, 12 June 2014. [online]. Sudac, Marcus. “String of ‘cultural phenomena’ fails to tie exhibit together.” The Brown Daily Herald, 25 February 2014. [online]
2013 Chamberlain, Colby. “Critics’ Picks: Paul Ramírez Jonas at Koenig & Clinton.” Artforum, 4 November 2013. [online] Ramírez Jonas, Paul. “Art: Heliopolis Presents Witness My Hand With Paul Ramírez Jonas.” Interview by Lynne DeSilva-Johnson. exit strata, 1 March 2013. [online]
2012 Kim, Joshua. “From Portland: Open Engagement 2012.” Art Practical, 3.17/A Living Thing That Changes, 2012. [online]
2011 Russel, Don. “Conference: Open Engagement.” Provisions, 17 December 2011. [online] Decter, Joshua. “Paul Ramirez Jonas, Pinacoteca do Estado São Paulo.” Artforum, December 2011.
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AWARDS/ GRANTS/ RESIDENCIES Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2009 ArtMatters Grant, 2009 Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2009 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, Summer /Fall 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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden New Museum, New York