Daniel Lind-Ramos

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Daniel Lind-Ramos
Born1953
Loíza, Puerto Rico
Other namesDaniel Lind Ramos
Alma mater University of Puerto Rico
New York University

Daniel Lind-Ramos (born 1953) is an African-Puerto Rican painter and sculptor who lives and works in Puerto Rico. [1] [2]

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Biography

Lind-Ramos was born in 1953 in Loíza, a coastal town in Puerto Rico. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico in 1975 and in 1980 he graduated from NYU with a master’s of art degree. [3] [4] In addition to his studio practice, Lind-Ramos also currently teaches in the Humanities Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao. [5]

Work

Figura De Poder (2016-2022) at the National Gallery of Art's exhibition of Afro-Atlantic Histories in 2022 Figura de Poder 2016-2022.jpg
Figura De Poder (2016-2022) at the National Gallery of Art's exhibition of Afro-Atlantic Histories in 2022

Lind-Ramos paints on canvas with oil using traditional and uncommon applications techniques from brushes to spatulas. [1] He also works with recycled or reused materials such as cardboard, wire screen, discarded appliances, car parts, the foliage of coconut palm trees, broken musical instruments and other used items. [1]

He was described as the "breakout star" or highlight of the 2019 Whitney Biennial by multiple reviewers, [6] [7] [8] [9] with the New York Times writing that his sculpture Maria Maria exemplified the pieces in the Biennial that "reassert the power of spirituality." [10] Critic Holland Cotter elaborated on the sculpture, explaining how Lind-Ramos "creat[ed] from wood, beads, coconuts and a blue FEMA tarp, a figure that is both the Virgin Mary and personification of the hurricane that devastated the island in 2017 ... the piece looks presidingly majestic." [10] [11]

Exhibitions (selection)

In 2023, the artist presented the solo show “Daniel Lind-Ramos: El Viejo Griot — Una Historia de Todos Nosotros (The Elder Storyteller — A Story of All of Us),” at MoMA PS1, Queens. The exhibition commented on the destruction of Hurricane Maria through large scale installations. [12] About the show, Pulitzer Prize winner and the New York Times co-chief art critic, Holland Cotter states

The title of a third work, “María de los Sustentos (Mary of Nourishment),” seems to allude to the Mother of Jesus. But the sculptural image Lind-Ramos has come up with feels far less a Spanish Catholic import than a local domestic invention, meticulously assembled, as it is, from pots and pans, fish nets, farming tools, sustaining instruments of daily life in the Loíza community. [13]

In 2022, Lind-Ramos participated in the North American iteration of the international exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories and his artwork was on view in the display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. [14]

Lind-Ramos's work is being featured in the 35th São Paulo Biennial titled Coreographies of the Impossible, taking place at the São Paulo Biennial Foundation building in the city of São Paulo in the fall of 2023. [15]

Permanent Collections

His works are in the permanent collections of several museum institutions in the United States and abroad such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, [16] the Pérez Art Museum Miami, [17] the Museum of Latin American Art, [18] El Museo del Barrio, and the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art. [19] [ better source needed ]

Exhibitions

Some of Lind-Ramos' exhibitions include:

Awards

In 2021, Lind-Ramos was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. [22]

Lind-Ramos is the recipient of the 2020 Pérez Prize awarded by the Pérez Art Museum Miami. According to the jurors, the award was conceived in honor of the artist's achievements and commitment to Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American identities. [23]

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