Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemalan, born )

Timeline

1978
Born in Guatemala
2002
VADA Award, The Contemporary Art Gallery, City of Vancouver
2006
Performance Art Fund, the Franklin Furnace & the City of New York

2008
Trustee Merit Scholarship, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

2010
British Columbia Arts Council

2011
Akademie Schloss Solitude, selected by Dan Graham, Germany

2012
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, USA

2013
Jan Van Eyck Academie Fellowship, Maastricht, Netherlands

2015
ARCO Award Comunidad de Madrid for Young Artists Cisneros
2015
Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO)
2016
Mies van der Rohe-fellowship, Krefeld, Germany
2016
DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Berlin, Germany

Exhibitions

2020
Asymmetries, The Power Plant, Toronto (solo)
2020
Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong
2019
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa At Small Arms, Toronto Biennial of Art

2019
Haltung & Fall. Die Welt im Taumel, Marta Herford, Herford

2019
He Was, First of All, Water, Mendes Wood, Brussels (solo)
2018
The Sixth State, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2018
The House at Kawinal, New Museum, New York (solo)
2018
The Luminous Grid, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (solo)
2018
Playground, M-Museum Leuven, Leuven

2018
Casa Tomada - Revindication of Tangible Property, SITE.lines2018 - Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe

2018
Prémio Paulo Cunha e Silva | The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto

2017
A Universal History of Infamy, 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles

2017
The Conundrum of Imagination - On the paradigm of exploration and discovery, Leopold Museum, Vienna

2017
Latin American Circle Presents: Breve Historia de la Arquitectura en Guatemala, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 
 New York

2017
II Coloquio Latinoamericano de Arte No Objetual y Arte Rural, MAMM, Medellín

2017
First Day of Good Weather, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf

2017
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Shit-Baby and the Crumpled Giraffe, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (solo)
2017
Linnæus in Tenebris, CAPC, Bordeaux (solo)
2017
Viva Arte Viva, 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice (solo)
2017
Two Flamingos copulating on a tin roof, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (solo)
2016
Incerteza Viva, 32nd Bienal de São Paulo

2016
Sunrise Sunset, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

2016
Un Atlas Decolonial: Videos de las Américas, 2010-2015, OPC - Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta

2015
Intersections (after Lautréamont), CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Art Foundation, Miami

2015
The School of Nature and Principle, EFA Project Space Program, New York

2015
If I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of your revolution, Royal Tropical Institute, IICD, Amsterdam

2015
Tocar madera, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City

2015
Rendez-vous, 13th Lyon Biennale, Lyon (solo)
2015
God’s Reptilian Finger, Gasworks gallery, London (solo)
2015
Con la lengua negra de tanto lamer la noche (With black tongue of lickingthe night so much), Proyectos Ultravioleta, Bogota (solo)
2015
Illusion of Matter, Tate Modern, London (solo)
2015
Ensayo Material 24.09.15 (Material rehearsal 24.09.15), Despacio, San José (solo)
2014
No sé cómo decir no sé (I don ́t know how to say I don ́t know), Sultana, Paris (solo)
2014
Props for Eréndira, 10th Gwangju Biennial, GwangjuProps for Eréndira, 10th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju

2014
Zipacna, Creator of Mountains, Sultana Gallery, Paris

2014
Ce Que Raconte La Solitude, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille

2014
Ras Le Bol (Fed up), SKOL Contemporary Art Center, Montreal

2014
The Politics and Pleasures of Food, ACC Autonomes Culture CentrumGallery, Weimar

2014
IXX Art Paiz Biennial: Trans-Visible, Guatemala City

2013
Obscenity of the Jungle, SWAB Contemporary Art Fair, Barcelona
2013
The Politics and Pleasures of Food, Halle 14 Gallery, Leipzig

2013
Feather Piece, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (solo)
2012
Cuerpo geométrico (Geometric body), Despacio, San José (solo)
2012
The Weight of Lives I’m Not Living, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver

2012
Les mangeurs (eaters), 4th Orange Art Event, Expression Exhibition Center & La Ressourcerie, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec

2012
By hook or by crook, The Hangar Beirut Art Center, Beirut

2011
Video Arte, Los del Patio Cultural Center, Panama City

2011
Mayami Son Machín, Diet Gallery, Miami

2011
Bitch on a bent palm tree, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (solo)
2011
Leer y beber el Arco Iris (To read and drink the Rainbow), Casa de América Cultural Center, Madrid (solo)
2011
Action T4 (the asylum is burning), Gachet Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
2010
La Reina ha muerto, el alce la mató (The Queen has died, the moose killed her), Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City(solo)
2010
Breve historia de la arquitectura en Guatemala (Brief history ofarchitecture in Guatemala), CCE Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City (solo)
2010
The Other Art Biennial of Bogota, Bogota

2010
Naufus Ramírez Figueroa & Beatriz Santiago, invited by Despacio, San José

2010
De Guatemala a Guatepeor (From Guatemala to Guateworst), SaunaProjects, Bogota

2009
From Sea to Sea, Visualeyez Festival, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton (solo)
2008
Para tí el banano madura al peso de tu dulce amor (For you, banana ripesto weight of your sweet love), Despacio, San José (solo)
2008
To See The Enormous Night Arise, Pleasure Dome Festival, Toronto (solo)
2008
AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans, John Connelly Presents gallery, New York

2008
Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Masrah Al MadinaTheater, Beirut

2008
Grotesques, A Space Gallery, Toronto

2007
Forks, Tables & Napkins, Festival of Maps, Gallery 2, School of the ArtInstitute of Chicago, Chicago

2007
Sex Work: The Museum as Brothel - Art House as Porn House, 53rdInternational Short Film Festival, Oberhausen

2007
Children’s Tears Laid Out To Dry, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
2007
Muxux: My Navel, My Grandfather: Chicago, South Side Community ArtCenter, Chicago (solo)
2006
Written Sorrows, Neutral Ground Artist-Run Gallery, Regina (solo)
2006
Slits II, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
2005
The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is Thrown Over my Shoulders, FADO Performance Art Center, Toronto (solo)
2005
Colour is Emptiness, performance with Franz West’s Passstüch, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
2004
La abortada (The abortion), Blim Space, Vancouver (solo)
2003
Great White Fleet, Gachet Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
2003
At the Base of Her Spine, Open Space, Victoria (solo)
2002
Possession, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose (solo)
2001
Sodomizing Diego Rivera, Live Performance, Vancouver Art Biennial, Vancouver (solo)
2000
White Intra-Venus, Church of Pointless Hysteria, Vancouver (solo)
1999
Flesh Garden, Gachet Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
1999
Chicken Transgressions, Gachet Gallery, Vancouver (solo)

Public Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany

FRAC Fonds Régional d︎Art Contemporain, Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France BPS22 Musée D’Art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium

CA2M Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, Spain

Literature

2020
Natalie Haddad: Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Conjures the Ghosts of Guatemala’s Civil War, Frieze Magazine, March

2018
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa; Ed. Natalie Bell, João Mourão, Luís Silva; New Museum/Kunsthalle Lissabon, New York/Lisbon 2018
2018
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. Two Flamingos; Ed. Katia Baudin, Dorothee Mosters, Strzelecki Books, Cologne 2018
2017
Taylor, Linda; Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, ARTREVIEW, December

2017
Magali Arriola: Oh Mother Natur, Frieze Magazine, December

2017
Naufus Ramírez- Figueroa: God’s Reptilian Finger, Elephant Magazine, December
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