Full CV - Galerie Sultana

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
1978, born in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Lives and works in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
EDUCATION
2008
2006
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
Master of Fine Arts
Trustee Merit Scholarship
Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
Bachelor of Media Arts
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016 2013
2012
2011
2010
2006
2002
DAAD Berlin
Jan Van Eyck Academie
ACC Weimar
Illy Future Prize award
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Akademie Schloss Solitude
selected by Dan Graham
British Columbia Arts Council
Performance Art Fund
the Franklin Furnace & the City of New York
VADA Award, The Contemporary Art Gallery
City of Vancouver
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: VISUAL ART
2017
2015
2014
2011
2010
2008
2007
2005
2003
1999
Solo show, CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (upcoming)
«God’s Reptilian Finger», Gasworks, London
«No Se Como Decir No Se»Sultana, Paris
“Bitch On A Bent Palm Tree”, Hirsch Gang, Akademie Schloss Solitude. Stuttgart, Germany
“Leer y Beber el Arco Iris”, Casa America, Madrid
“La Reina Ha Muerto, El Alce La Mató”, Proyectos Ultra Violeta,
Guatemala city , Guatemala
“Para Ti El Banano Madura Al Peso De Tu Dulce “Amor”, Des Pacio. San Jose, Costa Rica
“Children’s Tears Laid Out To Dry”, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“The Sun is Crooked in the Sky; My Father is “Thrown Over my Shoulders”, FADO. Toronto
“Great White Fleet”, Gallery Gachet. Vancouver
“Flesh Garden”, Gallery Gachet. Vancouver
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: PERFORMANCE ART
2016
If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to be a Part of Your Revolution, Edition VI
Amsterdam, NL
2015
“Illusion of Matter“, BMW, Tate Live, London
2012
“Cuerpo Geométrico“, Des Pacio, San Jose, Costa Rica
2011
“Action T4 (the asylum is burning)”; Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, Canada
2010
“Breve Historia de la Arquitectura en Guatemala”,
cur by Pablo León de la Barra. Centro Cultural de España – Cultura Hispánica, Guatemala, Guatemala
2009
“From Sea to Sea”curated by Todd Janes. Visualeyez Festival. Latitude 53.
EdmontonCanada
2008
“To See The Enormous Night Arise”
Pleasure Dome Festival. Toronto, Canada
2007
“Muxux: My Navel, My Grandfather: Chicago”, South Side Community Art Center. Chicago, US
2006
“Written Sorrows”, cur by Brenda Cleniuk. Neutral Ground, Regina,
Canada
2005
“Colour is Emptiness” performance with Franz West’s Passstüch
Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver
2004
“La Abortada”, Blim. Vancouver, Canada
2003 “At the Base of Her Spine” curated by Todd Davies.
Open Space. Victoria, Canada
2002
“Possession”, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo. San Jose, Costa Rica
2001
“Sodomizing Diego Rivera”, LIVE Performance Art Biennial.
Vancouver, Canada
2000
“White Intra Venus”, Church of Pointless Hysteria. Vancouver, Canada
1999
“Chicken Transgressions”, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Animality - A Fairy Story by Jens Hoffmann, Marian Goodman Gallery,
London, UK
The 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (upcoming)
Verbo Festival 2016, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil (upcoming)
In/Tangible, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Biennial of Visual Arts of the Central American Isthmus (BAVIC)
“Perspectives”, carte blanche à María Ínes Rodríguez”, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
“Print of Sleep II”, Curated by Catherine Wood, for the exhibition Secret Surface,
KW, Berlin
“Las aves / The Birds”, Nixon, Mexico City, Mexico
2015
«Something Else», OFF Biennal Cairo, Egypt
“Rendez-Vous“, Jeune Création Internationale, Lyon Biennal, IAC VIlleurbanne
2014“Zipacna, The Creator of Mountains“ with Federico Herrero, Sultana, Paris
10th Gwangju Biennale, cur. by Jessica Morgan and co-cur. by Emiliano
Valdes and Fatos Ustek, Gwangju, Korea
“A Chronicle of Interventions”, curated by Shoair Mavlin and
Inti Guerrero, Tate Modern, London
“Ras Le Bol” group exhibition, curated by Éve Dorais, Montreal
XIX Paiz Bienal, curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Group Exhibition, cur by Elena Lydia Scipioni, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
2013
“Present Future Prize Exhibition: Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
Santo Tolone, and Vanessa Safavi” cur by Andrew Berardini
Gregor Muir, and Beatrix Ruf Castello di Rivoli. Rivoli, Italy
“Obscenity of the Jungle”, SWAB. Barcelona, Spain
2012
“The Weight of Lives I’m Not Living: Guy Ben-Ner, Fabiola Carranza, and
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa” cur by Kim Nguyen Artspeak. Vancouver
“ORANGE 2012 - Les Mangeurs, 4th Edition”Cur. by Ève Dorais,
Véronique Grenier, and Eve Katinoglou
«Expression & La Ressourcerie Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
“By Hook or By Crook”, Cur. by Edward Salem The Hangar, Beirut,
Lebanon
2011
“Video Arte”, Cur by Federico Herrero, Los del Patio, Panama City
“Force Would Vanish From the Relations of Men”, Cur by Edward Salem,
Kodra Visual Arts Festival. Thessaloniki, Greece
“Mayami Son Machín”, Cur by Stefan Benchoam. Diet Gallery, Miami, US
2010
“Naufus Ramírez Figueroa & Beatriz Santiago” Invited by Des Pacio, San Jose, Costa Rica. La Otra Bienal, Bogotá, Colombia
“De Guatemala a Guatepeor”, Proyectos Sauna. Bogota, Colombia
2008
“AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans”
John Connelly Presents. New York, US
“Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices”
cur by Akram Zaatari. Masrah Al Madina. Beirut, Lebanon
“Grotesques”, cur by Lissette Olivares. A Space Gallery. Toronto, Canada
2007
“Forks, Tables & Napkins”, Festival of Maps. Gallery 2- School of the
Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago. US
“Sex Work: The Museum as Brothel; Art House as Porn House“
curated by AA Bronson. 53rd Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen,
Germany
2006
“Slits II”, curated by Victoria Singh. Western Front.
Vancouver, Canada