Overview
My basic intention is to make memory public, but to do it from a different aesthetic, where there is an important visual presence.
– Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
In a body of work that ranges from performance and video to sculpture, installation, and printmaking, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa explores historical narrative (especially the effects of the Guatemalan Civil War) through the circumstances of the body. His proposition – that intimacy both marks and subverts our collective myth-making – reveals itself through investigations of dreams, architecture, abstraction, theater, and notions of the spiritual.
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (b. 1978, Guatemala City, Guatemala) lives and works in Guatemala City.
Some of the artist's solo exhibitions and performances include: MAMBO, Bogotá (2023); MAMM, Medellín (2023); M Leuven (2022); Artspace, San Antonio (2021); The Power Plant, Toronto (2020); New Museum, New York (2018); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2017); CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (2017); Haus Esters Museum, Krefeld (2017); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016); Gasworks, London (2015); Tate Modern, London (2015); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2013).
Additionally, his work was included in group shows such as: MoMA, New York (2023); 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2022); Times Art Center, Berlin (2021); 22nd Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City (2021); TBA21, Madrid (2020); Para Site, Hong Kong (2020); Toronto Biennial of Art (2019); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2018); 57th La Biennale di Venezia (2017); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017); 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016); 13th La Biennale de Lyon (2015); 19th Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City (2014); 10th Gwangju Biennial (2014).
Selected Artworks
Exhibitions
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Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 4, 2023 São Paulo, Barra FundaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 11, 2023 São Paulo, Casa IramaiaLinhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian...View Exhibition -
Paper Trails
Group Show Jul 29 – Aug 8, 2023 D'Ouwe Kerke, RetranchementOpen every day | 11am to 6pm d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Osama Alrayyan, Laís Amaral, Lucas Arruda, Patricia Ayres, Alvaro Barrington, Paloma Bosquê, Castiel Vitorino...View Exhibition -
Mimosa tenuiflora
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Nov 19, 2022 – Jan 28, 2023 São Paulo, Barra FundaMendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala, 1978) in São Paulo. The exhibit, entitled Mimosa Tenuiflora , brings together video...View Exhibition -
He Was, First of All, Water
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Jan 26 – Apr 13, 2019 BrusselsNaufus Ramírez-Figueroa (1978, Guatemala City) creates dream-like images that draw on literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories. His work is playful yet also alludes to tragic or traumatic events connected...View Exhibition -
Prediction
Group show May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra FundaCurated by Milovan Farronato Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Adriano Costa, Raúl De Nieves, Patrizio di Massimo, f.marquespenteado, Chiara Fumai, Celia Hampton, George Henry Longly, Christian Holstad, Runa Islam, Zhana Ivanova, Goshka...View Exhibition
Publications
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
Natalie Bell, Wingston González, João Mourão and Luís Silva, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa and Catherine Wood, 2019Softcover, 150 pagesRead more
Publisher: New Museum and Kunsthalle Lissabon
ISBN: 9780985448578
Dimensions: 18.54 x 1.52 x 24.64 cm -
Requiem for Mirrors and Tigers
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa 2018Held by thread, 56 pagesRead more
Publisher: BOM DIA BOOKS
ISBN: 978-3-943514-98-8
Dimensions: 30 x 21 cm -
Two Flamingos
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa 2018Softcover, 124 pagesRead more
Publisher: Strzelecki Books
ISBN: 9783946770213
Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm
News
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Whispers from Tides and Forests
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Apr 14, 2025Read moreKunsthaus Baselland
Basel, Switzerland11/04 2025 — 17/08 2025
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desde los azules
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa May 16, 2024Read moreKunsthalle Lissabon
Lisbon, Portugal
16/05 2024 — 17/08 2024
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60+1 El pequeño gran museo de Ancón
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Nov 17, 2023Read moreMAC Panama
Panama City, Panama
28/09/23 — 14/01/24 -
Sequences Biennial - Sequences XI: Can't See
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Nov 16, 2023Read moreKling & Bang
Reykjavík, Iceland
13/10 — 26/11 2023
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