Bony Ramirez represented by Bradley Ertaskiran
26 June 2025
Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Bony Ramirez. Having collaborated closely since 2021 — most recently on Ramirez’s solo exhibition Le Grand Corail — we are thrilled to continue championing the bold and resonant work of this artist.
Born in Teneres, Salcedo, Dominican Republic, and currently working in Jersey City, New Jersey, Ramirez draws from a myriad of sources to populate his rich, fantastical scenes; his rural upbringing in the Dominican Republic, his first encounters with Catholic imagery, and his interest in Italian mannerism, Renaissance portraiture, and children’s illustrations reverberate within and around the heavily-stylized figures in which Ramirez has become known. Amidst a changing theatre of symbolic surroundings and colourful backdrops of Caribbean imagery, Ramirez’s scenes are often interspersed with sculptural appendages, which either complement the playfulness and idyllicism of his work, such as colourful beads, or contrast it by penetrating it with violence, such as knives stabbed through the canvas.
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), and Jeffrey Deitch (New York), among others. His work is housed in the permanent collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, 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.
Ramirez’s work is currently on view in the exhibition Counter History at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in a major intergenerational showcase celebrating works from the MFA’s permanent collection.
We are also thrilled to share that following Ramirez’s recent solo exhibition Cattleya at the Newark Museum of Art, the museum has acquired Allegory of Liberation (2024) for its permanent collection.