Paul Ramirez Jonas is Professor in the MFA program at Hunter College, CUNY. His honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, ArtMatters, the Howard Foundation, the International Studio Program in Sweden, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, among others. Ramírez Jonas’ selected solo exhibitions include the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK; Alexander Gray Gallery, New York; Roger Björkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden; and Postmasters Gallery, New York. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Germany; P.S.1, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria; The New Museum, New York; and Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland. He has participated in the Johannesburg Biennale; the Seoul Biennial, the Shanghai Biennial; the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial; and the 53rd Venice Biennial. He has built permanent projects in Cambridge, MA and a permanent public sculpture for the Hudson River Park, New York City. In 2010, Creative Time presented his “Key to the City” project in New York City.
Ramirez Jonas has also worked as a faculty coleader in the Social Choreography research group of the 2014-2016 Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.
