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.
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
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