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.”

The New York Times

2023-05-04

A storm, a pandemic, and Black Puerto Rican history pervade his work at MoMA PS 1, with materials sourced from daily life.

Cultured Magazine

2023-04-25

The artist brings his monumental assemblages—expressive containers of memories rooted in the Afro-descendant communities of Puerto Rico and beyond—to MoMA PS1 this spring for his largest exhibition to date.

Artnet News

2023-04-20

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

The New Yorker

2023-04-14

The Puerto Rican artist, who has a new exhibition at MOMA PS1, channels both the joy of Afro-Caribbean culture and the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Ocula

2023-05-03

Afro-Puerto Rican painter and sculptor Daniel Lind-Ramos creates powerful assemblages that respond to his country's historical and contemporary experiences.

The New York Times

2020-04-01

For the artist Daniel Lind-Ramos, a local hero in Puerto Rico whose altarlike assemblage sculptures of everyday objects have belatedly found acclaim on the mainland, the past month was to have been a celebration of his new visibility, which began with last year’s Whitney Biennial...

SRQ Magazine

2022-05-01

Daniel Lind-Ramos pays homage to the strength and resiliency of his native Puerto Rico with three assemblages created from reclaimed objects he collected in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Garage

2023-04-05

The Visual and Sonic Language of Daniel Lind-Ramos' "Armario de la Memoria"The Puerto Rican artist talks about his debut solo show at Marlborough in New York, now on view online.

The New Yorker

2022-05-04

...Of all the works on display, the most moving, to me, evoked collectives—in work and migration, resistance and celebration. Near the end, I lingered by Daniel Lind-Ramos’s “Figura de Poder,” (2016-2020), a towering masquerade figure assembled from maracas, boxing gloves, and other bric-a-brac, which brashly embodies the city of Loíza, in Puerto Rico....

Herald-Tribune

2022-03-31

When renowned visual artist Daniel Lind-Ramos arrives in Sarasota Friday to discuss his exhibit "Las Tres Marías," which officially opens Saturday in the Sarasota Art Museum, he will be meeting with a unique group of art enthusiasts. The bilingual first-graders of Dreamers Academy, a dual language immersion charter school in Sarasota, will enjoy a wonderful field trip to see Lind-Ramos' work, thanks to the combined efforts of the museum's staff and Jackeline Maldonado Pintor, who teaches art at Dreamers Academy.

ARTnews

2022-04-08

On Thursday night, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., held a preview of its long-awaited iteration of “Afro-Atlantic Histories,” an acclaimed exhibition that considers histories and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. There to toast the occasion was one of the Capitol’s most important figures: Kamala Harris. In a speech delivered just hours after she presided over the confirmation of Kentanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court Justice, Harris called the exhibition “unlike any other in the National Gallery’s history.”

Washingtonian

2022-04-12

The highly anticipated Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibit at the National Gallery of Art opened Sunday and will be on view through July 17. Traversing five centuries, multiple continents, and over 130 artworks, the remarkable exhibit reexamines the historical and cultural experiences of Black and African people as told through the histories of the African Diaspora and the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibit travels through time and across the thematic narratives of maps, enslavements, everyday lives, music, portraits, and resistance, to reveal the lasting legacies of Afro-Atlantic histories and experiences. Here is a look at some of its works... The last room of the exhibition displays articles of resistance and activism from throughout the Black Atlantic. Daniel Lind-Ramos’s Figura de Poder (2016–2020) is made of a collection of found commonplace materials from Lind-Ramos’s Afro-Puerto Rican community in Loíza. The everyday objects evoke carnival traditions, music, sports, and other pieces of community life as a site of cultural resistance through this distinctly dynamic sculpture.

Los Angeles Times

2022-09-30

On Tuesday, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 25 recipients of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. This so-called genius grant is awarded to “individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” In addition to the prestige, each fellow receives a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000 over five years. This year, six Latinxs were awarded the fellowship: writer and radio producer Daniel Alarcón; microbiologist Dr. Victor J. Torres; filmmakers Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera; painter and sculptor Daniel Lind-Ramos; and historian Monica Muñoz Martinez.

Artforum

2021-09-29

Painter Jordan Casteel, art historian, and curator Nicole Fleetwood, and sculptor and painter Daniel Lind-Ramos are among the twenty-five recipients of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowships. Known colloquially as the MacArthur “genius” grants, the fellowships provide beneficiaries with $625,000 each. The money is disbursed over a five-year span and is to be used as the recipient sees fit.

Frieze

2021-04-02

At Marlborough, New York, the Puerto Rico-based artist builds a new pantheon from the wreckage of colonialism and Hurricane Maria

Art in America

2019-03-01

In his work, Lind Ramos often explores the links between Loíza and the African diaspora throughout the Antilles as experienced through carnival characters. Trained as a painter and draughtsman, he began incorporating three-dimensional objects into his canvases in the late 1990s and now creates mostly large-scale installations, assemblages, and videos.