Anthony Ramos (artist)

Anthony Ramos is an American video artist, performance artist and painter. He was born in 1944 in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives in the South of France.

For the American actor, see Anthony Ramos (actor).

Education, awards and early career

Before he received an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts[1] he had studied painting at Southern Illinois University. He was a graduate assistant to Allan Kaprow. A conscientious objector, Ramos was jailed for 18 months for draft evasion.

Early in his career he received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and an Aspen Fellowship from the Aspen Institute. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ramos traveled widely in Europe, Africa, China and the Middle East. He documented the end of Portugal's colonial rule in Cape Verde and in Guinea-Bissau. He was in Teheran during the 1980 Iran hostage crisis.

Exhibitions and screenings

Ramos' pioneering video works have been shown at the

  • Pasadena Art Museum, California (1973)
  • Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1974)
  • Whitney Museum of American Art (1975)
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1992)
  • Light Industry, New York (2010)[2]
  • Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive at Dia: Beacon (2011–2012)[3]
  • The Embodied Vision: Performance for the Camera at the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado in Lisbon (2014)
  • Anthony Ramos: Vidéo et après at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2014)
  • Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968–1986 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York (2015)

Teaching and painting

Anthony Ramos taught at Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, and the University of California at San Diego, among others. Since the late 1980s he has primarily worked in painting. Several international venues exhibited his work, among them the American Jazz Museum and Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center, Kansas City; Biennale de Dakar, Senegal.

gollark: Probably!
gollark: They keep adding new features but they're poorly integrated with everything and just tacked into random parts of the UI!
gollark: It would be better if Discord could integrate with other more open platforms - even *Google Talk* could - so you could avoid the terrible client application and stuff could move to other things without horrible problems - but it *doesn't* and they *actively ban* this in the ToS (though to be fair you can do it anyway).
gollark: I suspect it's to annoy you by saying "haha yes buy nitro and you could use this but otherwise we will fill it with random nonsense".
gollark: There's really large line spacing for some reason and the people list at the side isn't very dense.

References
  1. California Video: Artists and Histories By Glenn Phillips, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008
  2. "Light Industry".
  3. "Dia Art Foundation - Events".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.