Chuck Ramirez is an artist and designer who lives and works in San Antonio, TX. His large-scale photographic portraits of banal objects are humorous, yet poignant, metaphors for the transient nature of consumer culture and the frailty of life.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Deeply Superficial, DePauw University Art Museum, Greencastle, IN
Purse Portraits, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
2005
Chuck Ramirez, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Chuck Ramirez, Centro de La Imagine, Mexico City
Chuck Ramirez, Galeria O Lamm, Casa Lamm, Mexico City
2004
Seven Days, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Project Room, Finesilver / FYI, ARCO '04, Madrid, Spain
Odd Thing, Curated by Robert Knafo, Scope NY
Seven Days, Monique Meloche, Gallery, Chicago, IL
Seven Days, Galerie Khadrberlin, Berlin, Germany
2003
Perspectives, FIAC, International Paris Art Fair, Paris, France
Gallery Sol y Sombra, San Antonio, TX
2002
Scope/Miami Art Fair, Finesilver Gallery, Miami, FL
INOVA- The Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Dee/Glasoe, New York
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Piñatas - Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
International Artist-in-Residence Program ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art/San Antonio, Curator: Jérôme Sans
2001
Chuck Ramirez-Feldman Gallery and Project Space, Portland, OR
Curator: Nan Curtis
2000
Quarantine-Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio
1999
Long Term Survivor-Hudson Showroom, ArtPace, A Foundation for
Contemporary Art/San Antonio
1998
New Work-House Space, San Antonio
1997
Photographs, Christmas Yard Light-The Project Room, San Antonio
Coconut - Sala Diaz, San Antonio
1995
Eight Christmas Trees-ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art/San Antonio
1995
Dust Collections and other Tchotchke - San Angel Gallery, San Antonio
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Multiples, David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2008
Chocolate, A Photography Exhibition, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, curated by David Rubin
2007
¿Y Que?- Queer Art Made in Texas, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbuck, TX, curated by Harmony Hammond
Still life in new time, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX, curated by Dr. Scott A. Sherer
2006
Leaving Aztlan (redux), Santa Monica Art Studios, CA
2005
Never Leaving Aztlan, The Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO
The portrait show @ CAMPsite, 114 Camp Street, San Antonio, TX, curated by Alice Carrington
Behind the Image Between the Lines, Polvo, Chicago, IL
Seis Who, Alameda Theater, San Antonio, TX
Leaving Aztlan, Center for the Visual Arts, Metro State College, Denver, CO
LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
sub-TEXT, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
Arcuate Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Twang, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
Arte Caliente, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
2003
Not So Cute and Cuddly, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Play With Your Food, curated by Clint Wilhour, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
ARCO '03 Currents, curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Madrid, ES
2002
10 x 3, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, curated by Kathryn Kanjo
Metropolis, Curator: Peter Doroshenko, Art Chicago, 2002
Digital Migrations: Chuck Ramirez and Jesse Amado, Sala Diaz, ARCO 02, Cutting Edge, Madrid, Spain
2001
Quarantine-Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, Curator: Paul Arensmeyer
The Politics of Difference-Recife, Brazil, Curator: Victor Zamudio Taylor
Big As Texas-D!verseWorks Art Space, Houston, Curator: Paul Arensmeyer
Aztlán Hoy. La posnación Chicana-Bronx Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, Curator: Berta Sichel
Once there was a spot-Locust Project, Miami, Curator: Chris Donahue
2000
"Yard Sale"-Downtown Arts Festival, New York, NY
Latino Redux-North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, Curator: Franco Mondini Ruiz
1999
Objects-University of Texas, San Antonio, Satellite Space, Curator: Jennifer Davies, Francis Colpitt
Techno-Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Curator: Randell Garrett
Aztlán Hoy. La posnación Chicana-Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Curator: Berta Sichel
Out West- Santa Fe, Curator: Harmony Hammond
Temporary-James Gallery, Houston, Curator: Hills Snyder
Real Vertual-Lago Vista Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, Curator: Randall Garrett
1998
Trade-Salon 300, Brooklyn, Curator: Alejandro Diaz
Contrasts-San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Curator: Angelica Jansen
Boy's Toys-Arlington Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington, Texas, Curator: Joan Davido
1997
Revelation-Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Curator: Diana Block
Tres Proyectos Latinos: Memory Frames-Austin Museum of Art at La Gloria, Austin, TX, Curators: Henry Estrada, Victor Zamudio Taylor
1996
Synthesis & Subversion-A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art-UTSA Gallery and the UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Curator: Francis Colpitt
Blue Star Eleven: Double Trouble-Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Curator: Dana Friis-Hansen
Red Installation, Blue Star on Houston Street II-Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Curators: Glenna Park, Riley Robinson, Anita Valencia, Terry Ybanez.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CATALOGUES:
"Aztlán Hoy," Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (Nov., 1999)
"Out West," Plan B Evolving art (CCA Inc.) Santa Fe, NM (Sept, 1999)
"Revelation," Dallas Visual, Art Center, Dallas, TX (Dec.,1997)
REVIEWS:
Libby Tilley, "Featured Artist: Chuck Ramirez" City Pages, March 2006,
pp. 32 - 35
Dan Goddard, "Portraits take on new look in exhibit" S.A. Life, San Antonio Express-News, November 17, 2005, 1F &6F.
Jennifer Segelke, "Object Lesson" Brilliant, June/July 2005, pp. 62, 64.
Dan Goddard, "Artists Return to ArtPace" S.A. Life, San Antonio Express-News, April 20, 2005.
"Challenging Stereotypes", Southwest Art, April 2005, pp.107-109
Retha Oliver, "Yunhee Min, Chuck Ramirez and Carter Potter" ARTL!ES, (Winter 2005)
Paul Ryan, "Chuck Ramirez, Andrea Caillouet and Jesse Amado: sub-TEXT", ArtLies, (Winter 2005)
Michael O'Sullivan, "Transforming 14th Street" Washington Post (September 24, 2004)
Katy Siegel, "First Take: Katy Siegel on Chuck Ramirez", Artforum International, (January 2003)
Liz Ward. "Quarantine," ArtLies (March, 2001)
Wendy Atwell. "Long Term Survivor," ArtLies (Summer, 1999)
John Ewing."Objects," San Antonio Current (Dec., 1999)
John Ewing."Of Cocktails and Cockring," San Antonio Current (March, 1999)
David M. Freeman. "Chuck Ramirez," Voices of Art (Feb. 1999)
Roger Welch. "S.A. artist finds truth and beauty in garbage and trash bags,"
San Antonio Express-News (April 2, 1998)
John Ewing."Chuck Ramirez's Coconut," Voices of Art (Sept./Oct., 1997)
Phil Arévalo.""Tres Proyectos Latinos" Provokes Questions," Voices of Art (July/Aug., 1997)
Melanie Young. "Artistic Outpost," Images. San Antonio Express-News (Feb. 16, 1997)
Diane Windeler. "High-tech Bohemian," San Antonio Express-News (June 26, 1996)
Mike Greenberg. Column, San Antonio Express-News (April 30, 1996)
Susan Yerkes. Column, San Antonio Express-News ( April 16, 1996)
Janet L. Rumble. "Prodigious Icons," Metropolis (Dec. 1996)
Glenna Park. "Kitsch and Kulchur," Voices of Art (Oct./Nov.,1995)
