| Mel Ramos, American (1935 - )
Born: July 24, Sacramento, CA
The popularity of his works is evident in the fact that since
1959 he has participated in more than 120 group shows. He has enjoyed great success and
critical acclaim as an adventuresome artist with the creativity
and sense of humor it takes to remain on top. Mel Ramos received
his first important recognition in the early 1960s. Ramos, along
with other artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes
Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, produced art works that celebrated
aspects of popular culture as represented in mass media. His
paintings were shown along with theirs in major exhibitions
of Pop Art both in this country and in Europe and were reproduced,
often with irony, in books, catalogs, and periodicals throughout
the world.
Ramos was born in 1935 at Sacramento, California. Between 1954 and 1958 he studied at the Sacramento City College, the San José State College and the Sacramento State College, finishing with an M.A. From 1958 he taught at various institutions including Elk Grove High School, Mira Lama High School and California State College. In 1962-63 he began a series of garishly colored super-heroes taken from comic strips using a thick oleaginous pigment. In 1963 he was first included in a collective exhibition in Pop Goes the East at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston.
In 1964 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, New York. In 1965 he developed a specific kind of Pop Art iconography by combining nude pin-up girls from American magazines and advertisements with branded products. In 1966 he exhibited at the Galerie Ricke, Kassel. In 1967 he had a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art; In 1969 he was represented in the exhibition Human Concerns at the Whitney Museum, New York, and had a one-man exhibition at the Gegenverkehr, Aachen. He exhibited at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, in 1972, and was represented at the Pop Art exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York, in 1974. In 1975 he had a retrospective at the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, and in 1977 at the Oakland Museum, California. In 1978 he was included in the exhibition Art About Art, Whitney Museum, New York and at the Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, and the Galeria Plura, Milan, Italy.
In 1980 The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University presented Mel Ramos: A Twenty Year Survey. 1981 saw a solo show at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City; in 1985 the Meisel Gallery mounted another, The Four Seasons, and he has been showing regularly with them since then: Beauty And The Beast in 1989, The Artist's Studio in 1991, Mel Ramos - The Heroines of 1962-64, and in 1993 Mel Ramos: The Unfinished Painting Series. Ramos has also been featured at the Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago (1986); Mel Ramos - Early Paintings was presented by Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, West Germany in 1986, and Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy featured his works in 1987. In 1994-95 Mel Ramos - Retrospective, a traveling exhibition in Germany and Austria, was shown at the Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen; the Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim; the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel; and then went to Vienna under title Mel Ramos: Pop Art Images," showing at the Hochscule fur Angewandte Kunst.
Some critical observers
of the "art scene" persist in classifying Mel Ramos
as a Pop Artist. His identification with the Pop movement of
the 1960's was much too narrow to account for the braoder context
of his paintings. His humor is not satire of ridicule. His "parodies"are
respectful, affectionate tributes, a celebration of images with
personal meanining.
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EDUCATION
1954-55 Sacramento Junior College, CA
1955-56 San Jose State College, CA
1957 Sacramento State College, B.A.
1958 Sacramento State College, M.A.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1958-60 Elk Grove High School
1960-66 Mira Loma High School
1965-66 Sacramento State University
1966 Arizona State University, Tempe
1966 California State University, Hayward
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Franklin House Collection, San Francisco, CA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Kunsthaus Darmstadt, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Germany
The Oakland Museum, CA
The Rose Art Museum, Bandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Seattle Art Museum, WA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
AWARDS
1986 National Endowment for the Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1986 United States/France Exchange Fellowship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1964 Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY
1965 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Galerie Ricke, Kassel, West Germany
1967 Galerie Tobies-Silex, Cologne, West Germany
1967 San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
1968 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1969 Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco, CA
1969 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Gegenverkehr, Aachen, West Germany
1970 Artist Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1971 Galerie Richard Fonchke, Ghent, Belgium
1971 French & Company, New York, NY
1971 Graphics Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1972 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
1973 Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
1973 Madison Art Center, WI
1973 Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
1974 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1974 David Stuart Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, West Germany
1976 David Stuart Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1977 The Oakland Museum, CA
1977 Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS
1978 Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno,
NV
1978 Galeria Plura, Milan, Italy
1979 Galeria Cadaques, Spain
1979 University Gallery, California State University, Chino,
CA
1980 "Mel Ramos: A Twenty Year Survey," The Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA, April 13 - May 16
1980 "Mel Ramos 'Upscapes'- A Salute to Morris Louis,"
Morgan Gallery,
Shawnee Mission, KS, June 20 - July 19
1980 Franz Wynans Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1981 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1981 Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1982 Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, CA
1982 Route 66, Philadelphia, PA
1985 "The Four Seasons," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY,
October 5-26
1986 Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL, February
1986 "Mel Ramos - Early Paintings," Galerie Tanja
Grunert, Cologne,
West Germany, September
1986 "Paintings 1962-1968," Modernism, San Francisco,
CA, November 4 -
December 13
1987 Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
1988 Kunsthandlung Brigitte Haasner, Wiesbaden, West Germany
1988 James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 "Beauty And The Beast," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY,
February 4-25
1989 "The Artist's Studio," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
November 4-25
1991 "Mel Ramos - The Heroines of 1962-64," Louis
K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY, October 5-26
1992 "Mel Ramos: Aquarelle und Frühe Grafiken,"
ARTAX, Kunsträume,
Düsseldorf, Germany, January 24 - March 15
1992 "Mel Ramos: Aquarelle und Grafiken," Maximilian
Krips Galerie,
Cologne, Germany, June 13 - July 31
1993 "Mel Ramos: The Unfinished Painting Series,"
Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York, NY, October 30 - November 20
1994-95 "Mel Ramos - Retrospective," Germany and
Austria
traveling exhibition: Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen, November
12 -
December 18, 1994; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, January
15 -
March 5, 1995; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, April 6 - June 5,
1995;
To Vienna under title “Mel Ramos: Pop Art Images,”
Hochscule für
Angewandte Kunst in Wien, July 21 - August 26, 1995
1997 “Mel Ramos - Oleos, Acuarelas, Dibujos,” Galeria
Levy, Madrid,
Spain, April 11 - May 26
1997 “Mel Ramos - Chic Women,” Kantor Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA, May 1 -
June 30
1999 “Mel Ramos: The Lost Paintings of 1965,” Louis
K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY, March 6-27
1999 -00 “Mel Ramos,” Italy and Germany traveling
exhibition: Galleria Civica
di Modena, Palazzina Dei Giardini Corso Canalgrande, Modena,
Italy, January 24–April 25; Kunsthaus Hannover, Hannover,
Germany,
May 9-July 18; Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany, July
30-
Sept. 26; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany,
Oct.15-Dec. 5; Kunstforum Fränkisches Seeland, Gunzenhausen,
Germany, March 5-May 7
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1959-61 "Winter Invitational," Palace of the Legion
of Honor,
San Francisco, CA
1963 "Pop Goes The Easel," Contemporary Art Museum,
Houston, TX
1963 "Some New Art in the Bay Area," San Francisco
Art Institute, CA
1963 "Pop Art USA," Oakland Art Museum, CA
1963 "Six More," Los Angeles County Museum, CA
1963 "Mixed Media and Pop Art," Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1963 "The Popular Image," Institute of Contemporary
Art, London,
England
1964 "Contemporary Art - USA," Norfolk Museum, VA
1964 "First International Girlie Exhibit," The Pace
Gallery, New York, NY
1964 "American Six," Bianchini Gallery, New York,
NY
1964 "U.S.A. Nouvelles Peintures," American Embassy,
Paris, France
1964 "El Bienal Americana de Arte," Cordoba, Argentina
1964 "Current Painting and Sculpture in the Bay Area,"
Stanford Museum,CA
1965 "The Arena of Love," Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
1965 "Neue Realisten und Pop Art," Akademie Der Kunst,
West Berlin
1965 "1¢ Life," Klipstein und Kornfield, Bern,
Switzerland
1965 "Pop Art Nouveau Realisme, Etc." Palais des
Beaux Arts, Brussels,
Belgium
1965 "Pop Art from U.S.A." Hamberger Kunstkabinett,
Hamburg,
West Germany
1965 "In-Focus--A Look at Realism," Memorial Museum,
Rochester, NY
1965 "Pop and the American Tradition," Milwaukee
Art Center, WI
1965 "Master Drawings from Degas to Lichtenstein,"
Fort Worth Art
Center, TX
1966-67 "11 Pop Artists," Traveling Exhibition: Virginia
Museum of Fine
Arts, Richmond, VA; American Federation of Arts Gallery, New
York, NY; Commercial Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore Museum
of Art, MD; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Flint Institute
of Arts, MI; Nelson Art Gallery, Kansas City, KS; Delgado
Museum,
New Orleans, LA; Columbus Museum, OH; High Museum, Atlanta,
GA;
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Portland Art Museum, OR; Oklahoma
Art
Center, Oklahoma City; Also in Kassel, Hamburg, Berlin &
Munich 1966-67 "New Banners," Multiples Inc., New
York, NY
1966-67 "Some Aspects of California Painting," La
Jolla Museum, CA
1966-67 "Critics' Choice," Long Beach Museum, CA
1967 Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-man)
1967 "Painters Behind the Painters," Palace of the
Legion of Honor,
San Francisco, CA
1967 "Young Artists of the Sixties," The Collection
of Mr. Charles
Cowles, Stanford Museum, Stanford University, CA
1967 "Pop Art," Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy
1968 "West Coast Now," Portland Art Museum, OR
1968 "Forty Now California Painters," Ringling Museum
of Art, Tampa, FL
1968 "Art 1968: Hang Ups and Put Downs," University
of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, WI
1968 "West Coast `68," Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento,
CA
1969 "Pop Art Revisited," Heyward Gallery, London,
England
1969 "Human Concern and Personal Torment," The Whitney
Museum of American
Art, New York
1969 "Spirit of the Comics," Institute of Contemporary
Art,
Philadelphia, PA
1970 "Seventeenth National Print Exhibition," The
Brooklyn Museum, NY
1970 "Pop Prints," The Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY
1970 "Festival of Contemporary Art," Municipal Art
Museum of Yokahama,
Japan, November - December
1970 "West Coast '70!," Crocker Art Gallery Biennial
Invitational,
Sacramento, CA, September 18 - October 25
1970 "Looking West 1970," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha,
NE
1970 "Beyond the Actual," Pioneer Museum, Stockton,
CA
1971 "Die Puppe-Azpekte zum Bild der Frau," Haus
am Waldsee, West Berlin,
1971 "Made in California," UCLA Art Museum, Los Angeles,
CA
1971 "Group Show," French & Company, New York,
NY
1972 "Querschnitt," Galerie Ricke, Cologne, West
Germany
1973 Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA
1973 "Separate Realities," Municipal Art Gallery
of Los Angeles, CA
1973 "The Super Realist Vision," DeCordova And Dana
Museum, Lincoln, MA
1973-78 "The Stuart M. Speiser Collection of Photo-Realism,"
United
States Traveling Exhibition: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New
York, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Addison
Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum,
PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO; University
of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial
Museum, San Antonio, TX; Gibbes Gallery, Charleston, SC;
Brooks Memorial Museum, Memphis, TN; Krannert Museum, Champaign,
IL; Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A. Ulrich
Museum, Wichita State University, KS; Tampa Bay Art Center,
FL; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Tulane
University, New Orleans, LA
1974 "Pop Art," The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY
1974 "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture,"
Krannert Art
Museum, Champaign, IL
1974 "Contemporary Portraits by American Painters,"
Lowe Art Museum,
Miami, FL
1974 "Living American Artists and the Figure," Pennsylvania
State
University Museum of Art, University Park, PA
1974 "New Realism Revisited," State University College
at Potsdam, NY
1974 "Aspects of Realism," Gallery Moos, Toronto,
Canada, September
1974 "Some Realists," Hawthorn Gallery, Skidmore
College, Saratoga
Springs, NY
1975 "Watercolors and Drawings - American Realists,"
Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York, NY (Catalog)
1975 University of North Dakota Art Gallery, Grand Forks, ND,
March 17 - April 4
1975 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, West Germany, April 20 - May 25
1975 "The Great American Nude," The New York Cultural
Center, NY, June
(Catalog)
1975 "Photorealism," Barrington Gallery, Auckland,
New Zealand, July
1975 University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro,
NC, November 16 - December 4
1976 "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern
Era," San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, September, (Catalog)
1976 "Three Hundred Years of American Art in The Chrysler
Museum at
Norfolk", VA; 1 March - 4 July
1977 "California Bay Area Art - Update," Huntsville
Museum of Art, AL
1977 "Nothing But Nudes," The Whitney Museum of American
Art Downtown
Branch, New York, NY
1977 "Private Images: Photographs by Painters," Los
Angeles County
Museum of Art, CA
1977-78 "California Viewpoints," Roy Boyd Gallery,
Chicago, IL,
November 10 - January 11
1978 "Art About Art," Traveling Exhibition: The Whitney
Museum of
American Art, New York; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh;
The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California,
Los Angeles; Portland Art Museum, OR (Catalog)
1978 "Photo-Realist Paintings from New York City Galleries,"
Southern
Alleghenies Museum of Art, Saint Francis College, Loretto,
PA
1978 "Aspeckte der 60er Jahre," Nationalgalerie,
West Berlin
1978 "Selections From The Frederick Weisman Company Collection
of
California Art," The Art Museum and Galleries, California
State
University, Long Beach, CA, November 20 - December 17, (Catalog)
1978 "20th Century American Nudes," Harold Reed Gallery,
New York,
February 16 - March 4 (Catalog)
1978 "Graphics Studio U.S.A.: An Experiment in Art Education,"
The Brooklyn Museum, NY, May 13 - July 16 (Catalog)
1978 "A Century of Master Drawings," Creighton University,
Omaha, NE,
September 29 - October 29
1978 Arts & Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, PA
1979 "Selections from the Frederick Weisman Collection
of California
Art," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September
1979 "Degrees of Realism," Gallery One, San Jose
State University, CA,
March 29 - April 24
1979 C.W. Post College Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY
1980 Indianapolis Museum, IN, June
1980 "American Figure Painting 1950-1980," The Chrysler
Museum, Norfolk,
VA; 17 October - 30 November
1980 "Watercolors: 1980," Frumpkin and Struve Gallery,
Chicago, IL, Nov.
1980-81 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, October 27 - November 1
1980-81 "American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980,"
The Brooklyn
Museum, NY, November 22 - January 18 (Catalog)
1980-81 Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY, December 3 - January
3
1981 "Changes 1881-1981," Haggerty Museum of Art,
Marquette University,
Milwaukee, WI
1981 "Selected 20th Century American Nudes," Harold
Reed Gallery,
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Sept 13 - Oct.4
1982 "Louis K. Meisel Gallery in Brussels," Galerie
Isy Brachot,
Brussels, Belgium, April 22 - May 22
1983 "Contemporary Images, Watercolor: 1983," Priebe
Gallery,
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, April 14 - May 6
1983 "Directions in Bay Area Painting," Richard Nelson
Gallery,
Davis, CA
1983-85 "Assignment: Aviation - The Stuart M. Speiser
Photo-Realist
Collection," Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition:
Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, AK, 1/1-1/31/83;
Denver Museum of Natural History, CO, 7/23-9/4; Maryland
Science Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/24-11/6; Columbus Museum
of Arts & Sciences, GA, 11/26/83-1/8/84; Neville Public
Museum, Green Bay, WI, 1/28-3/11; The Dane G. Hanson Memorial
Museum, Logan, KS, 3/31-5/13; Longview Museum & Art Center,
TX, 6/2-7/15; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO 8/4-9/16;
Springfield Art Museum, MO, 10/6-11/18; Fine Arts Center at
Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, 12/8/84-3/24/85; Historical &
Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, TX, 4/13-5/26; Amarillo Art
Center, TX, 6/15-7/28; Santa Fe Community College Art
Gallery, Gainesville, FL, 10/19-12/1
1983 "Jim Morgan Memorial Exhibition," Kansas City
Art Institute, MO
1983 "10th Anniversary Show," Louis K. Meisel Gallery,
New York, NY
1983 "The Comic Art Show," The Whitney Museum of
American Art Downtown
Branch, New York, NY July 13 - August 31
1983 "Perspectives of Landscape," Fuller-Goldeen
Gallery, San Francisco,
CA, July 27 - August 27
1983 "Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980," National
Museum of Art,
Osaka, Japan, October 8 - December 4
1983 "American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann
Family
Collection," Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston,
IL,
November 4 - December 7
1983-84 "Twenty-Five Years of the Artists Contemporary
Gallery," Crocker
Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, November 12 - January 1
1984 "San Francisco Bay Area Painting," Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery,
Lincoln, NE, September 8 - October 28
1984 "Twenty-Century American Drawings: The Figure in
Context,"
International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, DC
1984 "Figurative Options: Jack Ogden, Mel Ramos, Wayne
Thiebaud,"
Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento,
CA, October 26 - December 7 (Catalog)
1984-85 "Automobile and Culture," The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los
Angeles, CA, July 21 - January 6
1985 "S.M.S. Portfolios," The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York
February 23 - April 14
1985 "Pop Art 1955-70," Australian Traveling Exhibition:
Art Gallery
of New South Wales, 2/27-4/14; Queensland Art Gallery, 5/1-6/2;
National Gallery of Victoria, 6/26-8/11 (Catalog)
1985 "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980,"
The Oakland Museum,
CA, June (Catalog)
1985-87 "American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings
and Watercolors From
The Glenn C. Janss Collection," Traveling Exhibition:
San
Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, CA, 11/7/85 - 1/12/86; DeCordova
and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, 2/13/86 - 4/6/86; Archer
M. Huntington Art Gallery, University Of Texas, Austin, 7/31/86
-
9/21/86; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, 10/23/86 - 12/14/86; Williams College Museum
Of Art
Williamstown, MA, 1/15/87 - 3/8/87; Akron Art Museum, OH,
4/9/87 -
5/31/87; Madison Art Center, WI, 7/26/87 - 9/20/87
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov.7 - Jan. 12 (Catalog)
1986 "Portfolios: Artists' Series From the Collection
of the University
of Maryland," The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, January 29 - March 2 (Catalog)
1986 "Signs of the Times," Michigan Traveling Exhibition
Sponsored
by Art Train, Detroit, MI, February 1 - December 20
1986 "The De Soto Workshop," Civic Arts Gallery,
Walnut Creek, CA,
March 27 - May 11
1987 "Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art-the
50's &
60's," The University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, April
4-June 21
(Catalog)
1987 "Ten At The Rose," The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University,
Waltham, MA, May 2 - June 14 (Catalog)
1987 "His & Hers: Couples in Art," Works, San
Jose, CA, April 10-May 9
1987 "Pop Art America Europa dalla Collezione Ludwig",
Forte di
Belvedere, Florence, Italy, July 4 - October 4 (Catalog)
1987 "Fifty Watercolors: By Fifty Artists Spanning Fifty
Years,"
A Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, October 31 - December 12
1987 "Contemporary American Collage 1960-1986," Herter
Art Gallery,
Amherst, MA, November 9 - December 11 (Catalog)
1987-88 "The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in
Mixed Media," The
Oakland Museum, CA, November 14 - January 10
1988 "Art at the Armory," New York, NY, January 27-31
1988 "Selections From The Ellen and Jerome Westheimer
Collection,"
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK, April 15 - July 3
(Cat.)
1988 "Tropical Topics," Monterey Peninsula Museum
of Art, Monterey, CA,
June 25 - September 18
1988 "20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo) - Artists & Movements
From Our First
Two Decades," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY,
Nov. 5-26
1989 "Private Collections/Personal Exchange: Bay Area
Artists, 1950 -
1966,” Transamerica Corp., San Francisco, CA, Sept.
11 - Oct. 20
1989 "41st Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition,"
American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY,
November 13 - December 10
1989-90 "Human Concern/Personal Torment - The Grotesque
In American Art
Revisited," Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, Oct.
14 - Nov. 8,
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, Dec. 1 - Jan. 6 (Catalog)
1989-90 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, December 2-22,
January 3-13
1990 "The Figure - Selections from the Arkansas Arts Center
Foundation
Collection," The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR,
November 16 - February 11 (Catalog)
1990 "Oakland's Artists`90," The Oakland Museum,
CA, March 24 - July 1
1990 "Six," Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson
University,
Madison, NJ, February 16 - March 16
1990 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 7-28
1990 "Pop on Paper," James Goodman Gallery, New York,
NY, May 4 - June 15
1990 "Regarding Art: Artworks About Art," John Michael
Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan, WI, June 3 - August 12
1990 "California A To Z And Return," The Butler Institute
of American
Art, Youngstown, OH, June 24 - August 19
1990 "Amerikansk Fotorealism," Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg,
Sweden,
October 20 - November 25
1991 "7 Women," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY,
Feb. 22 - March 23
1991 "Reprise," Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Farleigh
Dickinson University,
Madison, NJ, April 5 - May 10
1991 "Love, Sex and Romance," Vered Gallery, East
Hampton, NY, July 20 -
August 8
1991-93 "Pop Art," traveling exhibition: Royal Academy
of Arts, London,
England, Sept. 13 - Dec. 15, 1991; Museum Ludwig At Kunsthalle,
Cologne, Germany, Jan. 23 - April 19, 1992; Museo Nacional
Centro
de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, June 16 - Sept. 14, 1992;
The Montréal, Museum of Fine Arts, Québec, Canada,
Oct. 23, 1992 –
Jan. 24, 1993, catalog (second catalog with additions printed
by
Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1992.)
1992 "Photorealism From Nashville Collections," Cheekwood
Fine Arts
Center, Nashville, TN, June 13-21
1993 "I Am The Enunciator," Thread Waxing Space,
New York, NY,
January 9 - February 20
1993 "Drawing On The Figure," Edna Carlsten Gallery,
University Of
Wisconsin, Stevens Point, March 28 - April 25
1993 "Slittamenti," Venice Biennale, Italy, June
9 - October 10
1994 "The Face of America: Contemporary Portraits in Watercolor,"
The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Old Forge, NY, Aug. 26 - Sept.
25
1995 “Duck,” Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY,
Jan. 28 - March 11
1995-96 “The Popular Image - Pop Art in America,”
Joint Exhibition -
Marisa Del Re Gallery and O’Hara Gallery; New York,
NY,
Oct. 26 - Dec. 9; Palm Beach, FL, Dec. 12 - Feb. 3
1996 “Paper Work,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New
York, NY, Feb. 3 - 24
1996 “Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms),”
Louis K. Meisel
Gallery, New York, NY, March 2 - 23
1997 “Feminine Image,” Nassau County Museum of
Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY,
March 2 - May 25, catalog
1998-99 “American Pop Art,” Palazzo Ex Ospedale
San Bartolomeo, Palermo,
Sicily, Italy, Dec. 18 – Mar. 21; The Pomotrice, Torino,
Italy, June 4-30
1999 “7 Women 7 Years Later,” Andrea Rosen Gallery,
New York, NY,
June 1 – August 6
1999 “Contemporary American Masters: 1960s,” Nassau
County Museum of
Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, June 13 – Sept. 12
1999 “Pop Art,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY,
May 28 – June 3
2000-01 "The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,"
The Newhouse Center
for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten
Island, NY, June 4 - January 15
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ramos' works are in the permanent collections of the The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; ; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Kunsthaus Darmstadt, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Germany; The Oakland Museum, CA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Franklin House Collection in San Francisco, and the Seattle Art Museum, WA.
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