Calixto Ramírez
Born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, 1980 and lives in Rome
Calixto Ramírez (Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1980) lives and works in Monterrey. He has led a semi nomadic life, at first because of his father’s geological work, later because working within the context of art has allowed him to do so. This relationship to movement has influenced his way of understanding reality and has informed his capacity to use that experience as a tool to produce images, objects, spaces or gestures that propose new narratives.
He studied in the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda” (Mexico City) and after finishing the studies he spent a few years participating in the Mexican scene. As of 2013, artist Jannis Kounellis, from the Arte Povera movement, invited him to live and produce in Italy. Which gave him the opportunity to participate in the European scene with special emphasis on the Italian one. In 2019 Calixto returned to the North of Mexico where he continues working and constantly traveling to other geographic locations to work in different contexts.
He has exhibited individually and collectively in spaces such as Museo Jumex, Museo Tamayo, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de la Ciudad De México, Museo de Arte de Sonora, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano, Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, Nave Generadores y Fototeca de Nuevo León, Palazzo Collicola, Fondazione MEMMO, Fondazione smART, Museo del Novecento in Naples, and the National Art Gallery of Tirana; as well as, in different public and private galleries in Mexico, the United States, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Croatia, Belgium, Slovenia, Colombia, Argentina and Greece.
