PAUL HENRY RAMIREZ

BORN 

• 1963 El Paso, Texas

EDUCATION

• University of Texas at El Paso
• Raritan Valley College, Somerville, NJ

SELECTED SOLO 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

SELECTED 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

AWARDS

• 1998 The Aldrich Museum Emerging Artist Award, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

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