GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA

Gustavo Ramos Rivera "Gustavo Ramos Rivera is an artist who surprises, delights and sometimes overwhelms the uninitiated with his extraordinarily exuberant and colorful works. Ramos Rivera is probably the least premeditated artist I have ever encountered. His is not an art of calculation, but that of an artist whose activity involves making his inner feelings visible through the application and arrangement of color and line." --Robert Johnson Curator, Museum of Modern Art San Francisco
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GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Paintings (7-works)
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GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Fuego Fatuo Wildfire
Fuego Fatuo (Wildfire)
Oil on Canvas
48 x 54 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Opera on the Balcony
Oil on Canvas
60 x 60 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA There Is No Time No Hay Tiempo
There Is No Time (No Hay Tiempo)
Oil on Canvas
48 x 60 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Afternoon Delight
Afternoon Delight
Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Oil on Panel
24 x 24 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 in

GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Works On Paper (23-works)
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GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Framed Monotype
34 x 26 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Monotype
46 x 33.5 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Framed Monotype
34 x 26 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Neruda poems
Neruda poems
Oil on Paper
34 x 26 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Neruda poems
Neruda poems
Oil on Paper
30 x 25 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Monotype with oil crayon
34 x 26 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Etching
23 x 19 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Etching
19 x 23 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Framed Monotype with drawing
34 x 26 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Framed Monotype with drawing
34 x 26 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Aare River Series
Aare River Series
unframed Monotype
32 x 32 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Bern Series
Framed Monotype (Bern Series)
Monotype
35 x 27 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitiled
Untitiled Monotype
Monotype
30 x 22 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Monotype
18 x 24 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Monotype
16 x 16 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Mixed Media and collage on paper
24.5 x 36 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Mixed Media on Paper
41 x 33 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Monotype
16 x 16 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Framed Monotype
34 x 26 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Etching
35 x 46 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Framed Monotype
36 x 36 in
GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Untitled
Untitled
Paint, found objects on paper
25 x 30 in

GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA

GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA

GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Description

Gustavo Ramos Rivera

Born in 1940, Gustavo Ramos Rivera is a revered painter, sculptor, and printmaker who has worked and exhibited in San Francisco since arriving from Chihuahua, Mexico in 1969. His imagery is a unique fusion of lush colorful patterns inspired by the brightly painted and the tribal folk arts and costumes that surrounded him as a young man. He combines this with a vigorous painting style influenced by both Abstract Expressionism and Mexican Modernist painters. Rivera works in traditional oil on canvas, often creatively employing re-purposed found materials that he collages on to the surface of his paintings.

As a master printmaker, Ramos Rivera utilizes intaglio and lithography often enhancing these media with drawing and collage to create one of a kind works on paper. His work can be seen in public collections throughout the United States and Mexico including the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco and the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.

GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA Resumé

Gustavo Ramos Rivera

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2020   Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (Thiebaud Anniversary exhibit)

  • 2019   Eaglesmith Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (solo)

  • 2018   Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (20th anniversary exhibit)

  • 2018   Whitney Modern, Los Gatos, CA (group show)

  • 2017   Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)

  • 2017   Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) 

  • 2017   Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (group sculpture exhibit)

  • 2016   Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (solo)

  • 2015   Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 2013   Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 2012   Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (solo)

  • 2006   San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (solo)

  • 2006   San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (solo)

  • 2005   Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 2005   Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico. Travel: Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas (solo)                      

  • 2004   Galerie Dionisi, Hollywood, CA (solo)

  • 2004   The Monotype Marathon," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

  • 1999   The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. Travels to de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

  • 1999   John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 1998   Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA (solo)

  • 1996   Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

  • 1996   John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 1994   Wilfred Von Guten Galerie, Thun, Switzerland (solo)

  • 1994   Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 1993   Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland

  • 1993   12 Bay Area Painters Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

  • 1993   M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 1993   Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

  • 1991 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

  • 1991 Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • 1991 Joan Prats Gallery, New York, NY, The Painted Monotype

  • 1991   Margulis Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL (solo)

  • 1991   Absence of Proof, Somar Gallery Space, San Francisco, CA

  • 1990   Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

  • 1990   Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • 1990   The Painted Monotype, Joan Prats Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1989   Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

  • 1988  Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, traveling exhibition to Asia, by World Print, San Francisco, CA

  • 1988  Mano a Mano, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California, Santa Cruz and Oakland, CA

  • 1986  Art After Eden: An Unnatural Perspective, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  • 1986  Alas y Raices, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA

  • 1985  Mexico: The New Generations, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

  • 1985  Latin American Paining Today, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

  • 1985  Meridian: Art of the Americas, Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Collections

  • Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts

  • Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA

  • DeYoung, San Francisco, CA

  • De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

  • Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

  • Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

  • The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

  • Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA

  • Museu De Arte Assis Chateaubriand, da Universidad de Paraiba, Brazil.

  • Museo Felguerez, Zacatecas, Mexico.

  • Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

  • Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

  • San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA

  • San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

  • Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ

  • Stanford University Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA

  • Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Palo Alto, CA

  • Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

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