Gustavo Ramos Rivera
Biography
BORN
1940 Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico
SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
1978 San Francisco Arts Commission, Azul, Azul y Hacher, painting for American Airlines Terminal, San Francisco International Airport 1981 San Francisco Arts Commission, Untitled, painting for West Lobby, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1992 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1968 Centro Regional de Iniciación Artística, Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico 1970 Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA 1974 Zara Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA 1979 George Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1980 Galeria Miró, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico 1981 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1986 Arte Actual Mexicano, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico 1988 Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA Alternative Museum, New York, NY 1988 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Nov. 1990 Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA 1991 Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Margulies Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL 1993 Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1994 Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA Wilfred Von Guten Galerie, Thun, Switzerland 1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland 1998 Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA 1999 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1974 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Mix College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 1976 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 20 Bay Area Artists Casa de la Cultura Jalicience, Gudalajara, Mexico 1977 Traveling exhibition to U.S. Museums, Seventeen Mexican American Artists 1978 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Graffiti 1980 San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Graphics Biennale San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, World Print Three Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Gestural Abstraction 1984 Alternative Museum, New York, NY, What’s Happening: Contemporary Art from California, Oregon, and Washington States Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico, D.F., 11 Artistas Mexicanos 1985 San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, Mexico: The New Generations The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA, Latin American Painting Today San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Meridian: Art of the Americas 1986 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Art After Eden: An Unnatural Perspective Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, Alas y Raices 1988 Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA, and The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Mano a Mano 1989 Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL 1990 Traveling exhibition to Asia, organized by World Print, San Francisco, CA, Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction 1991 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Joan Prats Gallery, New York, NY, The Painted Monotype 1992 Somar Gallery Space, World Print, San Francisco, CA, Absence of Proof 1993 Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 12 Bay Area Painters: Eureka Fellowship Winners 1998 Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NE, The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions. Travel to De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 2004 B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA, made in California: Intaglio Editions, March 2–April 3