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.

SELECTED WORKS

AWARDS & EDUCATION

EDUCATION

1989 — Taller Antonio Segui, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris, France

1980 — MA, New York University

1975 — BA, Universidad de Puerto Rico


AWARDS

2024 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, Puerto Rico

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, Pifiones, Puerto Rico

2012 Olympic selection committee to create an six medals for Puerto Rican olympians

2010 Representative of Puerto Rico at the Third Festival of Black Arts in Dakar, Senegal, Africa

2002 Selected by the Public Art Committee of the Government of Puerto Rico for the Creation of the Monument to Santiago

1989 Prize - International Salon Val D'ors, Hyères, France

1989 Winner of the Arana Foundation Scholarship, to Study in Paris, France

1986 Nomination for award in the Visual Arts by The Rockefeller Foundation and the NationalEndowments for the Art

1980 First and Second Painting Award, San Gulf, San Juan, PR

1979 First and Second Painting Award, San Mobil, San Juan, Puerto Rico Collection

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

MAR ADENTRO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), San Juan, PR

From San Juan Bautista..., Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale, Forno Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy

Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego, CA

2023

Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA

35th Bienal de São Paulo: choreographies of the impossible, Bienal de São Paulo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil

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

2025

Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami), Miami, FL

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAP), San Juan, PR

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 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, PR

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

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

RECENT PRESS