Gustavo Ramos Rivera

"Born in 1940 in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Gustavo Ramos Rivera moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 and gradually established himself as a highly respected abstract painter and print maker. He belongs to a generation of Mexican artists who emerged between two distinctive eras: one, a society still clearly marked by Mesoamerican traditions, the mestizo land whose heritage had been both simplified and compellingly codified by the Mexican muralists; and the second, a postwar culture in the process of becoming truly international, which was moving inexorably beyond the grasp of those traditions as well as their representations, and which came of age during the early 1960s. As an artist of this subsequent generation, Ramos Rivera has demonstrated an ever greater willingness to look outside Mexico for ideas, and particularly to the contemporary art of Europe and the United States."

Source: excerpted from Gustavo Ramos Rivera by Juvenal Acosta, in association with the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art & the San Jose Museum of Art, 2006

1940 Born in Villa Acuna, Coahuila, Mexico
San Francisco, CA , 1969 - present

Self -Taught

Selected Exhibitions

2017 Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2017 Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA (group sculpture exhibit)
2016 Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA (solo)
2015 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2013 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2012 Sakata Garo Gallery, 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 Wil...