Diego Ramirez (artist)

Diego Ramírez (born 1989) is a Mexican/Australian artist working with digital media, including video, light boxes and prints. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico he relocated to Melbourne, Australia in 2008.

Diego Ramirez, My Material World, photographed by Matthew Stanton, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and [MARS] Gallery.

Career

He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Media Arts) from RMIT University and an Honours degree of Fine Arts from Monash University.[1] During his undergraduate studies Ramirez began exhibiting at numerous Australian artist-run initiatives, followed by group shows at national and international venues such as Hong-gah Museum, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Torrance Art Museum and WRO Art Biennale.[2][3][4][5][6]

Since then his work has been shortlisted in various art prizes held at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Substation Arts Centre, Fremantle Arts Centre, National Art School Gallery and The Incinerator Gallery.[7][8][9][10]

Ramirez’s moving image work has been screened at numerous international festivals including Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Electronic Language International Festival, MADATAC, Videoholica, International Video Art Review, Antimatter, 25th Festival Les Instants Video and Channels:The Australian Video Art Festival.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

He is one of the artists included in Forever Now, a project that seeks to launch a golden disc into space containing audio-visual artworks, among them an excerpt from Ramirez's video aXolotl’s Happiness.[19]

Diego Ramirez is represented in Melbourne by [MARS] Gallery.[20]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "台灣國際錄像藝術展 ---- Tiva 2014".
  3. "South: Contemporary Art from Australia, Mexico and South Africa - Hazelhurst - Sutherland Shire Council".
  4. http://www.ntmofa.gov.tw/english/movie_1.aspx?SN=4489
  5. http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/284093-the-dark-room-presents-unco---australian-video
  6. "15th Media Art Biennale WRO 2013: Pioneering Values - Announcements - e-flux".
  7. http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/exhibitions/paramor-prize.aspx%5B%5D
  8. "The 2014 Substation Art Prize Exhibition on Art:Base".
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. http://artguide.com.au/whats-on-page/show/incinerator-art-award/%5B%5D
  11. "Catálogo 14 Festival Internacional de la Imagen".
  12. "File Sp 2014 – Video Art". 24 July 2014.
  13. http://madatac.es/post-portfolio/heart-shaped-bruises/
  14. "Videoholica 2014 Program".
  15. "幸运PK牛牛|幸运pk牛牛下载".
  16. "Antimatter -" (PDF).
  17. http://www.visualcontainer.net/25-les-instants-video-videoart-festival-marseille-france/
  18. http://www.channelsfestival.net.au/2013/program/screening-video-visions-session-1-sensory-drive-media-mash-ups-session-2-constructed-worlds-bodies-collide/
  19. http://forevernow.me/
  20. "Diego Ramirez Artist Page - MARS Gallery Melbourne".
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