Francisco Javier Ramirez
Bio: Francisco Javier Ramirez is a Mexico City–born, New York–based interdisciplinary visual artist. He has exhibited and presented work internationally at venues including Print Center New York, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Centro de la Imagen, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and LeRoy Neiman Gallery. His publications have appeared at LA Printed Matter Art Book Fair, Brooklyn Art Book Fair, and ZONA MACO, and were a finalist for the Best Latin American Publication award at FELIFA Festival.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement:
I am drawn to the role of myth, religion, and popular media in the construction of meaning. Exploring the intersections of personal and collective memory, reality and artifice, I draw from my own experiences to embrace complexity and reflect on broader social and political themes.
To visualize the layers of historicity we carry with us—approaching the world as a chaos that does not need to be tamed—I work with scanning, rephotography, collage, video, and bookmaking. I move through fragmentation, welcoming ambiguity, opacity, and amalgamation.
In my practice, transformation is both subject and method, mirroring my life as a queer Mexican immigrant and the child of an immigrant: continuously formed, deconstructed, and reassembled. I seek to inhabit this change and multiplicity, visualizing becoming and unbecoming as an aesthetic strategy.
Francisco Javier Ramirez
Invocation, 2026
Wooden structure, sandbags, etched and inked metal plate, chains, and miniature curtain
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Would you be an outlaw for my love?, 2026
Wooden structure, sandbags, graphite, concrete, and acrylic paint on wood panel, with inkjet print and artist frame
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Some Things Last a Long Time, 2026
Archival inkjet print on cotton fiber paper
from hand-held scan
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Benediction, 2026
Collage with laser toner prints, archival
inkjet prints, and acrylic paint on wood panel
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Love and its Opposites, 2026
Archival inkjet print on double-weight paper
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Superstar, 2026
Laser toner print with pushpins on wood panel
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Some Things Last a Lifetime, 2026
Archival inkjet print on cotton fiber paper from hand-held scan
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Time to Pretend, 2026
Collage with laser toner prints, inkjet prints, transparency, and acrylic paint on wood panel
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All My Friends, 2026
Ultraviolet photographic print in lightbox
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Can you hear the drums, Fernando?, 2026
Expanded book, 18 scrapbook sheets with archival inkjet prints on cotton fiber paper
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First Year Exhibition
Francisco Javier Ramirez
A time to cast away stones, 2025
Laser toner prints and acrylic paint on wood panel
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A time to gather stones together, 2025
Laser toner prints and acrylic paint on wood panel
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A favor asked was a favor given, 2025
Single-channel video, color, silent
1 hour, 45 min.
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