Calixto Ramirez

Works
Bio

Born in 1980 in Reynosa Tamaulipas, Mexico
Lives and works in Monterey

 

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2023 – Llamas a un espacio, Project room, Studio Croma, Mexico City
2022 – Cuando todo era nada, Nieves Fernández Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2022 – Una otra cosa, Spazio Rivoluzione. Palermo, Italy
2021 – A cloudy day, Eau & Gaz, Appiano/Eppan, Italy
2021 – Osare Perdere, Calixto Ramirez | Video azioni (2010-2020), Fourteen Artellaro, Italy
2019 – Dicen que dicen, Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2019 – Puño de Tierra, Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, México
2018 – La última y nos vamos, DOM Art Space, Palermo, Italy
2018 – Cuarto Paso, Ribot Gallery, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Milan, Italy
2017 – One potato, two potato, with Guido Van der Werve, curated by Saverio Verini, Monitor Gallery, Labico, Italy
2017 – Opera Viva Barriera di Milano, public art project, curated by Christian Caliandro, Turin, Italy
2017 – Cuatro Pasos / Milano, Maab Gallery, curated by Giuseppe Virelli, Milan, Italy
2016 – Una sola moltitudine, curated by Saverio Verini, smArt – polo per l’arte, Rome, Italy.
2016 – Cuatro Pasos / Trieste, curated by Francesca Lazzarini, MLZ Art Dep Gallery, Trieste, Italy
2016 – Sacosanctum 15, curated by Adalberto Abbate and Maria Luisa Montaperto, Oratorio de San Mercurio, Palermo, Italy
2016 – Cuatro Pasos / Napoli, Museo del ‘900, Castel Sant’ Elmo, Naples, Italy
2016 – Donde el campo me ha llevado, curated by Oscar Sanchez, SchleifmIuhlgasse 12-14, Vienna, Austria
2016 – MANCA, Yautepec Gallery, curated by Brett W. Schultz, Mexico City, México
2015 – Body, City and Dust, Galerjia Skola, Split – Galerjia Otok, curated by Ivana Mestrov, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2015 – All those yesterdays, curated by Alessandro Ciccoria Open, Studiolo, Rome, Italy
2014 – Patricia, Galerie Ho, Marseille, France
2014 – A Través, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, curated by Guillermo Santamarina, Mexico City, Mexico
2012 – Antes de entrar permita salir, curated by Mauricio Marcín, El Clauselito, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City, Mexico
2012 – De ida y vuelta: un paseo por las artes plásticas y visuales, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2012 – The time & space of Calixto Ramírez, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, Tiny Park Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2023 – Evidence of circumstance, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, USA
2023 – A screaming comes across the sky, El Nopal, Los Angeles, USA
2022 – Bitácoras (Casa Wabi Collection), Museum of Contemporary Art of Queretaro, Mexico
2022 – La tierra que habitamos, Plaza Fátima Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza García, México
2022 – La tierra al revés, Jumex Museum (Extramural), Izamal, Mexico
2022 – Acciones a distancia, Jumex Museum, Mexico City
2022 – (… o autoengaño) Aguirre Gallery, Mexico City
2021 – Post-Turismo, Via Ezio 29, Rome, Italy
2021 – Tierra sobre tierra, ERROR project, Puebla, Mexico
2021 – HIC, z2o Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, Italy
2021 – Windows, Alessandra Bonomo Gallery / Chiostro di San Nicolò, Spoleto,Italy
2021 – HUMANS, Video-ritratti della società contemporanea. #2 Lockdown. ArtribuneTV, Italy
2020 – Arte en vivo, Fototeca de Nuevo León, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
2020 – A medida incierta, Nave Generadores, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
2020 – A stately interior, Aguirre, Mexico City, Mexico
2020 – PAN-DE-MÌ-A, Oratorio San Mercurio, Palermo, Italy
2020 – CARBÓN, Galería Ladrón_Norte, Monterrey, Mexico
2019 – Biofilia, Festival Santa Lucía, Monterrey, Mexico
2019 – Confulencias IV: La nave de los locos o la lógica del despiporre. Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
2019 – Mirabilia Urbis, Cripta Santa Lucia del Gonfalone, Rome, Italy
2019 – La Déesse Verte, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
2019 – Ritmo Bodoni, Castiglia di Saluzzo, Italy
2019 – FANGO VOL. 2, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
2018 – Talent Prize, Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
2018 – FANGO VOL.1, Spazio Revoluzione, Palermo, Italy
2018 – Sacrosanctum / prima edizione, Oratorio San Mercurio, Palermo, Italy
2018 – Massimiliano e Manet, Miramare Castle, Trieste, Italy
2018 – Rosina 2 Spectrum show, curated by Giuliana Benassi, Limon, London, UK
2017 – XXIII ONUFRI Price, Au Fil du Temps, National Gallery of Tirana, Albania
2017 – There is no place like home, Via della Fucina 16, Turin, Italy
2017 – Straperetana, Monitor Gallery, Pereto, Italy
2017 – 76,4 Window showroom, Brussels, Belgium
2017 – Material Art Fair – Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2016 – Ecosistemi – Fondazione Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy
2016 – Poéticas del decrecimiento. ¿Cómo vivir mejor con menos? XII Bienal FEMSA, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
2016 – There is no place like home, Lungotevere San Paolo 48, Rome, Italy
2016 – EREMI Arte, Parco Nazionale Della Majella, Italy
2016 – i Materiali Della Pittura, Associazione Il Frantoio, Italy
2016 – Grenze Erfahrung, Hinterland Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2016 – Aporie, Spazio Brentano, Milan, Italy
2015 – Siderare, Fondazione Volume, Rome, Italy
2015 – Todo por ver, Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 – Dicen que dicen, El Rastro, Hermosillo, Sonora, México
2015 – Apulia Land Art Festival, Ostuni, Italy
2015 – 1era Bienal Nacional del Paisaje, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 – Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
2015 – Nation25, The Nationless Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2015 – Contemporary, 3a edizione del Festival di Musica e Arte dAvanguardia, Donori, Italy
2014 – 1era Bienal Nacional del Paisaje, Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS), Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
2014 – XVI Bienal de Fotografía, De la escultura al archivo, Fototeca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
2014 – Polvo, Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS), curated by Christian Barragán, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
2014 – Cult of personality, MLZ Art Dep, Trieste, Italy
2014 – Superficie en Tensión, Galeria Diagrama, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 – Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Yautepec Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2014 – Salón ACME II, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 – Maniera, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
2013 – In Medi Terraneum 4, Simultaneous International Video Festival, Representing Italy: Favara, Italy; Montevideo, Uruguay; Bogota, Colombia; Madrid, Spain; Athens, Greece; Cordoba, Argentina
2013 – Stranger/Extranjero, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York, USA
2013 – La Esmeralda 70 años, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 – Art-o-Rama, curated by Brett W. Schultz, Yautepec Gallery, Marseille, France
2013 – Foto/Video, Fotocoruña, A Coruña, Spain
2013 – Correspondencia II, Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi, Italy
2013 – Panorámica. Paisajes 2013 – 1969, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico CIty, Mexico
2013 – Raw Material / Materia Prima, Puebla 124 (w/ Yautepec Gallery), Mexico City, Mexico
2012 – Bienal de Artemergente, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
2012 – Mitos Oficiales, Estación Cero, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 – Salón de la Fotografía 2010, Fototeca, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico; M.A.T- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
2011 – Aquí Mero, No Automático, Monterrey, Mexico
2011 – Correspondencia, Vecchio Municipio, curated by Bruno Corà, San donato Val di Comino, Italy
2010 – Diálogos con la ciudad, Galería Okupa, Mexico CIty, Mexico
2010 – Paisaje audiovisual 2009, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain
2010 – Diálogo a tres (y +), c/ Marina Vega, Madrid, Spain
2009 – XXIX Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2009 – International Video Match, Gallery of the CIty, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Cultural Center, Trbovlje, Slovenia
2009 – Muestras del taller Kounellis, Villa Iris, Santander, Spain
2009 – I + D + I, Galería Altamira, Gijón, Spain
2008 – XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2008 – 104 Egresados de la Esmeralda, Centro Nacional de las Artes (CNA), Mexico City, Mexico

 

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2022 – First Prize in the Nuevo León State Award. Monterrey, Mexico
2022 – Grant Proyecto de investigación artística CEIIDA. Monterrey, Mexico
2021 – Residency, ERROR project, Puebla, Mexico
2020 – Grant Contigo a la distancia, FONCA, México
2018 – Finalist in the Talent Prize – Inside Art, Italy
2017 – XXIII ONUFRI Prize, Au fil du Temps, National Gallery of Tirana, Albania
2017 – Winner of the NESXT Award – Independent Art Festival of Artribune, Italy
2017 – Residency Monitor Gallery / Antonello Colonna Resort, Labico, Italy
2016 – XII FEMSA Biennial, Poéticas del decrecimiento. ¿Cómo vivir mejor con menos?, Center for the Arts, Monterrey, Mexico
2015 – ResidencyCasa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015 – Level 0 Award Winner, Art Verona, Italy
2014 – XVI Photography Biennial “From Sculpture to Archive”, Photo Library of Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
2014 – 1st National Landscape Biennial, Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico City
2014 – Finalist Prize 10 best works at the Art Verona Fair, Italy
2012 – Acquisition Award, Emerging Art Biennial, Monterrey, Mexico
2011 – Salón de la Fotografía 2010, Photo Library of Nuevo León, Center for the Arts, Monterrey, Mexico
2010 – Finalist in the Audiovisual Landscape Prize 2009, Art and Nature Center, Beulas Foundation, Spain
2009 – Residency Marcelino Botín Foundation, workshop with Jannis Kounellis. Santander, Spain
2009 – Grant Jóvenes Creadores – Interdisciplina, Instituto Tamaulipeco para la Cultura y las Artes, ITCA, Mexico
2009 – XXIX Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2008 – Honorable Mention, XXVIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Aguascalientes, Mexico

 

EDUCATION

2003-2008 – Bachelor Fine Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda, Mexico City, Mexico