BORN
1963 El Paso, Texas
EDUCATION
University of Texas at El Paso
Raritan Valley College, Somerville, NJ
AWARDS
1998 The Aldrich Museum Emerging Artist Award, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005-2006 "Paul Henry Ramirez," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004-2006 "Paul Henry Ramirez," Paint Pours site specific installation, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2004 "Serious Playful: Paul Henry Ramirez, 1995-2004," Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Gallery, University of Texas, El Paso, TX (catalog)
2004 "In Fluent Form," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "Elevatious Transcendualistic Series," Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, Paris, France (catalog)
2002 "Space Addiction," Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY (catalog)
2002 "Elevatious Transcendualistic Series," The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalog)
2002 "Elevatious Transcendualistic Series," DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2002 "Elevatious Transcendualistic," Caren Golden Fine Art, , New York, NY
2001 "Elevatious Transcendsualistic", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1999 "Edging Into Excess," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Real Pretty Simple Innocent Paintings," Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 "Spread," Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 "Liquid Squeeze," Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
1996 Arena, Brooklyn, NY
1995 Clock Tower Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "100% Virgin Vinyl," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 "Extreme Abstraction," Curated by Claire Schneider and Louis Grachos, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (catalog)
2005 "CITY ART," curated by Marvin Heiferman, The Center for Architecture, New York, NY
2004 "Erotic Drawings,"traveling exhibition curated by Harry Philbrick, Sarah Kellner and Stuart Horodner, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT;
Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX (catalog)
2004 "Open House: Working in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2004 "system: landscape," curated by Daria Brit Shapiro, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
2003 "Rendered," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "Decade," Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 "SuperFly," Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2002 "Abstraction," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 "NYCSEX: How New York City Transformed Sex in America," Museum of Sex, New York, NY (catalog)
2002 "Playground," Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "Showtime," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Accumulations," curated by Martin Ball, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2001 "lalaland," curated by Nancy Lewis, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 "MAX 2001-all about paint," curated by Holly Block, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN (catalog)
2001 "Humanoid", curated by Nancy Rielle, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX. Traveled to Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Paper Products",Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA,
2000 "New New York," curated by Alejandro Diaz, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX (catalog)
2000 "Icon-O-Pop," Frumkin Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 "The S-Files," curated by Jamine Ramirez and Deborah Cullen, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2000 "The Figure: Another side of Modernism Paintings from 1950 to the Present," Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art,Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
Staten Island, NY (catalog)
2000 "Good Buisness Is the Best Art," The Bronz Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2000 "Line," Arena@Feed, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Opening Exhibition, Museum of Sex, New York, NY (catalog)
2000 "Paper Cuts," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Points of Abstraction: Recent Acquisitions in the Corcoran Collection," The Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
1999 "Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1999 "Body As Commodity," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1999 "Fluid," The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College,Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Curated by Henry C. Estrada
1999 "Eye Candy," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 "American Abstration - American Realism: the Great Debate,"
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1999 "Parallel Lines: Mix and Match," Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
1999 "Humanoid," Vendanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 "The Significant Other," Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
1998 "Biomorphic Abstraction," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1998 "34th Annual Art on Paper Exhibition," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1998 "Spread," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Psychological Drawing," Gallery of Korea, New York, NY
1998 "Drawings: The Second Annual National Invitational," Meyerson & Nowinsky Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
1998 "Pop Surrealism," The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1998 "pay-per-view," CarenGolden Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 "Third Person," curated by Helen Varola, Lobby Gallery, New York, NY
1998 "New Visions '98: Under Construction," curated by Debra Singer & Anastasia Aukeman, Gen Art, New York, NY
1998 "Humanoid," curated by Nancy RielleGenovese Sullivan Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 "Polymorphous Memorialus," Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Sue Spaid
1997 "Some Young Fun," Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 "Current Undercurrents," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1997 "17th Annual Artists in the Market Place," Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1997 "Memory Frames," Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
1997 "Sutures," The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1996 "The October Show," Raritan Valley College, Somerville, NJ
1996 "Art Exchange," Arena/Black & Herron Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "The First Exposure Series," Gen Art, New York, NY
1996 "Paperworks: Off & On The Wall," Raritan Valley College, Somerville, NJ
1995 "Ooze," Black & Herron Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "Other Rooms," Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
1995 Sauce Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1995 Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 "Winter Selection," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1994 "Exposure," El Paso City Hall Gallery, El Paso, TX
1994 "Alumni Exhibition," Raritan Valley College, Somerville, NJ
1993 Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Philip Morris Companies, New York, NY
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2004 Percentage for the Art commission "Going Up Up Up" (large sculpture
installation at PS 254, 84-40 101st Street, Queens, NY