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. The artist composes his works first as loose sketches in notebooks, imagining the totality from which he will assemble the parts. Then he works with found materials and gifted things of his childhood: musical instruments in part and whole, the daily instruments of eating, growing, and maintaining. These are then altered with specific painterly touches, patterns, and forms. Each component is further transformed by its encounter with the harmonious whole, the sculptures eventually acquiring a spirit-like presence. Yet they are tied immediately to the present an emphatic sense of recovery, reuse, and rejuvenation necessary in the artist’s homeland, ravaged by hurricanes and locked in an asymmetric colonial relationship with the United States.

Daniel Lind-Ramos’s work was included in the 2019 edition of the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and was the recipient of a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. In 2021, Daniel was awarded the prestigious McArthur Foundation's Genius Fellowship Award for his contributions in sculpture. This year, MoMA PS1 will present the largest exhibition of his work to date titled, El Viejo Griot — Una historia de todos nosotros. The exhibition will remain open until September 4th, 2023.

In the past two years, Lind-Ramos’s works have entered numerous public collections such as The National Gallery of Art, District of Columbia; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Perez Museum, Miami, FL; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MACPR), San Juan, Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAP), San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2023 "El Viejo Griot — Una historia de todos nosotros", MoMA PS1, Queens, New York.

2022 “Las Tres Marías”, Sarasota Art Museum, Florida.

2021 SUSTENANCE, The Ranch, Montauk, New York.

2020 STORAGE OF MEMORY (ARMARIO DE LA MEMORIA), Marlborough Gallery, New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2022

“Afro-Atlantic Histories”, National Gallery, Washington DC,

Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art

2021

“SWEAT”, Hause Der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2019

Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2018

PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL 2018 Muestra Nacional de Arte Puertorriqueño, Museo del Arsenal de la Puntilla de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2018

New Acquisitions, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2018

PM, curated by Christopher Rivera, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2013

De Pie”: Ensemble y Dibujos, Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010

Tercer Festival Mundial de las Artes Negras, Dakar, Senegal, Africa

2001

Viaje a la Fertilidad: Pinturas, Museo Casa Roig de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacau, Puerto Rico

1989

Obra Reciente, Espace Lacer, Paris, France

1986

Ritos y Ofrendas, Pinturas, Galeria San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico