BIOGRAPHY
Working in an assemblage sculptural mode to evoke the storytelling traditions embedded in his Afro-descendent history, Daniel Lind-Ramos draws forth the oral, culinary and musical history which sustains the spirit of the once enslaved and Cimarrón community in Puerto Rico.
BORN
1953, Loíza, Puerto Rico
LIVES AND WORKS
Loíza, Puerto Rico
AWARDS & EDUCATION
Education
1989 Taller Antonio Seguí, Ecole de Beux Arts, Paris France
1980 (MA) New York University
1975 (BA) Universidad de Puerto Rico
Awards
2021 McArthur Foundation's Genius Fellowship Award
2021 USA Artist Fellowship
2020 Perez Museum Prize, Miami
2020 Artsy Vanguard
2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters & Sculptors Grants Winner, New York, NY
2019 Nada Artadia Award, Miami, FL
2019 Artist Residence Awarded by AFRICA'SOUT! and Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2016 Premio Gran Bienal Tropical, Painter, Puerto Rico
Olympic selection committee to create an six medals for Puerto Rican olympians
16th Internacional Val D'Ors Awards, Hieres, France
Arana Foundation Award to live and work in Paris, France
Nomination for award in the Visual Arts by The Rockefeller Foundation and the NationalEndowments for the Art
First and Second Painting Award, San Gulf, San Juan, PR
First and Second Painting Award, San Mobil, San Juan, Puerto Rico Collection
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, MCA Chicago, Chicago, November 19 - April 23
Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harbor, New York
FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Ohio
Afro-Atlantic Histories, National Gallery, Washington DC
2021
In the Eye of the Storm, Art Center Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
SWEAT, Hause Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
El Día del Yagrumo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Plural, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
Multiple Voices/Multiple Stories, Rollins Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Springweather and People, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
2020
100 Drawings From Now, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
2019
Whitney Museum of American Art: WHITNEY BIENNIAL, New York, USA
2018
Nuevas Adquisiciones, Museo De Arte Contemporáneo De Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Muestra Nacional De Arte De Puerto Rico, Museo Del Arsenal De La Marina, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2017
Pa’ Los Santos, Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, PF
2015
Muestra Nacional De Arte De Puerto Rico, Museo Del Arsenal De LaMarina, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2013 “
"De Pie" Ensamblajes Y Dibujos, Museo De Las Americas,San Juan, Puerto Rico
Muestra Nacional De Arte Puertorriqueño, Museo Del Arsenal De La Puntilla, San Juan, Pr
2012
Pinceladas Olimpicas, Museo De Arte De Ponce, Ponce, Pr
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Daniel Lind-Ramos: El Viejo Griot — Una historia de todos nosotros, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
2022
Las Tres Marías, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarastoa, Fl, USA
Daniel Lind-Ramos: SUSTENANCE, Montauk, New York
2020
STORAGE OF MEMORY (ARMARIO DE LA MEMORIA), Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
De Loíza A La Loíza: Proyecto interdisciplinario auspiciado por el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de PR
2013
De Pie: Ensamblajes Y Dibujos, Museo De Las Americas, San Juan, PR
2005
Retratos De Los Poetas De “Guajana”, Teatro De La Upr De Humacao, PR
2001
Viaje A La Fertilidad: Pinturas, Museo Casa Roig De La Universidad De Puerto Rico En Humacao, PR
1989
Obra Reciente: “Espace Lacer,” Paris, France
1986
Ritos Y Ofrendas: Pinturas, Galeria San Juan, San Juan, PR
1976
Galeria De La Fortaleza, Palacio Santa Catalina, San Juan, PR
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Smithsonian Museum of National Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami, Florida
Galería Nacional de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA
Jordan’s Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PT
Museo del Barrio de New York, NY
Colección Pública, Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIALS
35th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Whitney Museum of American Art: Whitney Biennial, New York, USA
Third World Festival of Black Art, Dakar, Senegal, África
RECENT PRESS
The Brooklyn Rail
2023-07-01
Comprised entirely of found objects from Loiza—some of which the artist himself collected and some of which were gifted by friends and neighbors—the sculptures at PS1 are redolent with the residual energy of a place and its people. Several of them, like Centinelas de la luna nueva (Sentinels of the New Moon) (2022–23), are sprawlingly complex and monumental in scale, yet possess none of the stand-offishness that so often characterizes large-scale sculpture. In part, this is because the three sentinels resemble humanoid figures, seemingly arranged with heads, breasts, and hands. But also, a kind of humanity bubbles up from their materiality: the objects it is comprised of—among them colorful cloths, yard materials, and drums—are deeply imbued with animacy and character, with a narrative voice that is not so much spoken but felt...
The Art Newspaper
2023-05-15
From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions. Daniel Lind-Ramos, a sculptor and one of the breakout stars of the 2019 Whitney Biennial, assembles his distinctive and engrossing sculptures with materials salvaged from the streets and beaches near his home and studio in Loíza, Puerto Rico.
Art News
2023-04-20
I remember my first experience with an ambulance. I was so little that I thought I was in the belly of a dragon,” the artist Daniel Lind-Ramos recalled last week during the installation of his hotly anticipated MoMA PS1 survey, which opens today. “My mother asked me later in life, ‘How do you remember that?’ Maybe because I was so impressed.”
