Bony Ramirez

Bony Ramirez

Le Grand Corail, 2025
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Le Grand Corail, 2025
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Le Grand Corail, 2025
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
La Pinta, La Niña, La Santa María, ¿y Quién Más?
2024
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, gold leaf marker, Bristol paper on wood panel
101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in.)
Comienzo y Final de Una Verde Mañana (After Wilfredo)
2024
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, gold leaf marker, Bristol paper on wood panel
121.9 x 91.4 cm (48 x 36 in.)
Dispersion on the Pearl's Surface
2024
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, gold leaf marker, Bristol paper on wood panel
182.9 x 152.4 cm (72 x 60 in.)
Cattleya, 2024
Exhibition view
Newark Museum of Art, Newark (United States)
Photo: Richard Goodbody
Cattleya, 2024
Exhibition view
Newark Museum of Art, Newark (United States)
Photo: Richard Goodbody
Cattleya, 2024
Exhibition view
Newark Museum of Art, Newark (United States)
Photo: Richard Goodbody
Agua De Coco Para La Esperanza
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, gold leaf marker, fabric, wallpaper and Bristol paper on wood panel
76 x 76 cm (30 x 30")
Compassion? Where?
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, oil bar and Bristol paper on wood panel
45.5 x 45.5 cm (18 x 18")
Diamond Tears #1
2022
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, colour pencil, plastic rhinestones, Bristol paper on marble tile, backed on wood panel
30.5 x 30.5 cm. (12 x 12 in.)
Noblesse Oblige, 2021
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Maxime Brouillet
The Lost Fight / La Batalla Pérdida
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, oil bar, wallpaper and Bristol paper on wood panel
122 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36")
Noblesse Oblige, 2021
Exhibition View
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Maxime Brouillet
Musa X Paradisiaca
2020
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, wallpaper, paper on wood panel
122 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36")
Carnaval
2020
Acrylic paint, colored pencil, oil pastel, paper on wood panel
101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30")
All This Weight? For What?
2020
Acrylic paint, colored pencil, oil pastel, paper on wood panel
152.5 x 101.5 cm (60 x 40")
My Birth’s Funeral
2023
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, colour pencil, wallpaper; Bristol paper on wood panel
152.40 x 101.60 cm. (60 x 40 in.)
Where Are The Avocados?
2021
Acrylic, color pencil, soft oil pastel, wallpaper, Bristol paper on wood panel
152.5 x 101.5 cm. (60 x 40 in.)
El Oro Más Valioso Del Mundo
2023
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, colour pencil, gold leaf marker, wallpaper; Bristol paper on wood panel
152.40 x 101.60 cm. (60 x 40 in.)
Dónde Están Los Limóncillos?
2020
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil stick, oil pastel, paper on wood panel
122 x 183 cm (48 x 72")
Puente Platanal
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel and Bristol paper on wood panel
45.5 x 45.5 cm (18 x 18 in.)
Sueño?
2020
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel. paper on wood panel
101.5 x 152.5 cm (40 x 60")
Le Grand Corail, 2025
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Le Grand Corail, 2025
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
Le Grand Corail, 2025
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro
La Pinta, La Niña, La Santa María, ¿y Quién Más?
2024
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, gold leaf marker, Bristol paper on wood panel
101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in.)
Comienzo y Final de Una Verde Mañana (After Wilfredo)
2024
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, gold leaf marker, Bristol paper on wood panel
121.9 x 91.4 cm (48 x 36 in.)
Dispersion on the Pearl's Surface
2024
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, color pencil, wallpaper, gold leaf marker, Bristol paper on wood panel
182.9 x 152.4 cm (72 x 60 in.)
Cattleya, 2024
Exhibition view
Newark Museum of Art, Newark (United States)
Photo: Richard Goodbody
Cattleya, 2024
Exhibition view
Newark Museum of Art, Newark (United States)
Photo: Richard Goodbody
Cattleya, 2024
Exhibition view
Newark Museum of Art, Newark (United States)
Photo: Richard Goodbody
Agua De Coco Para La Esperanza
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, gold leaf marker, fabric, wallpaper and Bristol paper on wood panel
76 x 76 cm (30 x 30")
Compassion? Where?
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, oil bar and Bristol paper on wood panel
45.5 x 45.5 cm (18 x 18")
Diamond Tears #1
2022
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, colour pencil, plastic rhinestones, Bristol paper on marble tile, backed on wood panel
30.5 x 30.5 cm. (12 x 12 in.)
Noblesse Oblige, 2021
Exhibition view
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Maxime Brouillet
The Lost Fight / La Batalla Pérdida
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, oil bar, wallpaper and Bristol paper on wood panel
122 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36")
Noblesse Oblige, 2021
Exhibition View
Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (Canada)
Photo: Maxime Brouillet
Musa X Paradisiaca
2020
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel, wallpaper, paper on wood panel
122 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36")
Carnaval
2020
Acrylic paint, colored pencil, oil pastel, paper on wood panel
101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30")
All This Weight? For What?
2020
Acrylic paint, colored pencil, oil pastel, paper on wood panel
152.5 x 101.5 cm (60 x 40")
My Birth’s Funeral
2023
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, colour pencil, wallpaper; Bristol paper on wood panel
152.40 x 101.60 cm. (60 x 40 in.)
Where Are The Avocados?
2021
Acrylic, color pencil, soft oil pastel, wallpaper, Bristol paper on wood panel
152.5 x 101.5 cm. (60 x 40 in.)
El Oro Más Valioso Del Mundo
2023
Acrylic, soft oil pastel, colour pencil, gold leaf marker, wallpaper; Bristol paper on wood panel
152.40 x 101.60 cm. (60 x 40 in.)
Dónde Están Los Limóncillos?
2020
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil stick, oil pastel, paper on wood panel
122 x 183 cm (48 x 72")
Puente Platanal
2021
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel and Bristol paper on wood panel
45.5 x 45.5 cm (18 x 18 in.)
Sueño?
2020
Acrylic, colored pencil, oil pastel. paper on wood panel
101.5 x 152.5 cm (40 x 60")

Biography

Bony Ramirez was born in 1996 in Tenares, Salcedo, Dominican Republic and is currently based in New York. His rural upbringing in the Dominican Republic, his first encounters with Catholic imagery, and his deep interest in sources as varied as Italian mannerism, Renaissance portraiture, and children’s illustrations reverberate within and around the fictional characters he creates. If each figure appears to be transposed into a changing theatre of symbolic surroundings and backdrops, it is the artist’s technique that renders this possible. Ramirez creates his heavily stylized, proportionally distorted figures on paper, and adheres them onto wood panels featuring idyllic, colourful backdrops of Caribbean imagery. As Ramirez’s characters, developed separately and simultaneously in oil stick, paint, and coloured pencil, make their way onto his works, so too do various other symbolic appendages. Ramirez uses a variety of objects which either complement the playfulness and idyllicism of his work, such as colourful beads, or contrast it by penetrating it with violence, such as real knives stabbed into the canvas.

Bony Ramirez has exhibited at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas), the Newark Museum of Art (New Jersey), François Ghebaly (Los Angeles), Bank/MabSociety (Shanghai), Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), Jeffrey Deitch (New York), Kapp Kapp (New York), and Company (New York) among others. Ramirez was recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Arts & Style category in 2023, and The Artsy Vanguard 2021. His work is housed in the permanent collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, as well as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Newark Museum of Art, the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, the Perez Art Museum Miami, and the X Museum in Beijing.

Born in Tenares, Dominican Republic, 1996

Lives and works in New York, USA

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Bony Ramirez: Noblesse Oblige, 2021 | Bradley Ertaskiran