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Dan Ramirez
Born: Chicago, IL

Education
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, MFA, 1977
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1975
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, BFA, 1975

Selected Solo Shows
2008 Dan Ramirez: Los Arcos de la Luz, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Metropolitan Capital Bank (Metcap), Chicago, IL
2003 Klein Art Works, Chicago
2003 Printworks, Chicago
2001 Klein Art Works, Chicago
2000 Klein Art Works, Chicago
1995-97 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
1993 Illinois Benedictine Monastery, Lisle, Illinois
1990 Dart Gallery, Chicago
1986/88 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
1986 Roy Boyd Gal ery, Los Angeles
1984-85 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
1983/85 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
1983 St. Xavier College, Chicago
1982-83 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
1982 Roy Boyd Gal ery, Los Angeles
1981 Three Illinois Center Plaza, Chicago
1981 Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, Indiana
1981 The Art Institute of Chicago: Twenty Contemplation鈥檚 on the Infant Jesus: An Homage to Olivier
Messiaen
1980 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1979 The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago: Dan Ramirez Works: 1972-1979
1977 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
1977 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign/ Urbana, IL
1976 Chicago Gallery, Chicago
1975 Social Science Administration Building, University of Chicago
1974 Don Roth's Blackhawk, Chicago

Selected Group Shows
2008 The Drawing Show, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2005 Colecciones: Mexican Art from 50 Private Chicago Col ections,
Chicago, IL
2003-4

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum,

Jellies, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay, CA

2003-4 That 70鈥檚 Show: Pluralism in Chicago Art, Northern Indiana Art Association Gallery, Munster, IN
2003-4 Richard Meier, Steven Hol , Dan Ramirez, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO
2003 Full Frontal, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
2003 Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2002 Chicago School II, Klein Art Works, Chicago,IL
2002 Real Abstraction: No Metaphor, No Apologies, Suburban Fine Art Center, Highland Park, IL

2002 Pondering, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
2002 Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
2002 Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2001 Oomph 鈥� A group show, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
2000 Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
2000 Contemporary Abstraction, Art Chicago: Navy Pier, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
1998 The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
1998 Art Expo, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1998 Derriere Guard Festival, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL
1996 ART IN CHICAGO, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1996 Three Artists: Daniel Smajo-Ramirez/Julia Fish/Louisa Chase, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1996 Art in Bloom, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1996 Art Expo, Chicago, IL
1996 Rethinking the Figure Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL (June)
1996 Update: Dan Smajo-Ramirez-Frank Pietek-Buzz Spector-Bill Conger-Ann Wilson,
Chicago, IL
1996

Roy Boyd Gallery,

Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1996 Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995,
University, Evanston, IL
1996

Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern

25 Years of Contemporary Art, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL

1995 Gal ery Artists Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Exquisite Drawing: Lines of Correspondence, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1994 Post-Minimalism and the Spiritual: Four Chicago Artists,
Art, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
1993

The Museum of Contemporary Religious

Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1992 Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL
1991 En El Corazon Del Pais (In the Heart of the Country),
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1990

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs,

Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1989 Selected Works, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Adivina: Latino Chicago Expressions,
Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art/Chapaultapec, Mexico City, Mexico

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, Commissions & Residencies
2005 Pol ock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York, NY
1996 Madison Art Center, Mixed-Media Print, Madison WI, Commission
1996 Madison Art Center, Survoyeur Installation, Madison WI, Commission
1994-95 Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993-94 Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992-93 Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992 Fellowship Award, Wisconsin Arts Board
1989-90 Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1988-89 Graduate School Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1988 State of Illinois. Commission, Chicago Technology Park
1985 Frito-Lay, Dallas, Texas, Commission
1984 New Art Examiner Benefit, Commission
1983 State of Illinois Center Building, Chicago, IL, Commission

traveling exhibition; The Mexican Fine Arts Center - Museum,

1982 Illinois Governors Award, Commission
1978 Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Medal, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Award
1978 CIC Fellowship (Committee on Institutional Cooperation), University of Chicago
1977 Fairweather-Hardin Gallery Prize for Excellence in the Fine Arts, University of Chicago

Selected Bibliography
Books
Art In Chicago: 1945-1995, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1996. pp. 199, 207, 301

The Painter Speaks: Artists Discuss Their Experiences and Careers, Edited by Joan Jeffries, in conjunction
with Columbia University Greenwood Press, Connecticut and London, 1993

Sight Out of Mind: Essays and Criticism on Art

, Dennis Adrian, Contemporary American Art Critics Series,

UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1985: Preface XIII and Chapter 5. Drawing in Chicago: The
Second Wave, pp. 35-36 and Chapter 12, Dan Ramirez: A Critical Survey of Form and Content, pp. 77-84.

Periodicals
2001 Chicago Tribune, Dan Ramirez Paints Again, Alan Artner, October 5
2000 Chicago Tribune, Ramirez Paintings Back on Firm Ground, Alan Artner, February
1997 Art in America, Where the Wild Things Were, Richard Vine, May
1996 Art News, Living with Art/June and Francis Spiezer: In Love with Eccentricity, Garrett Holg, October
1996 Art Gallery News, Chicago, IL, Sept.-Dec.
1996 New City, September 5, Chicago, IL, Ann Wiens
1996 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 1, Multimedia work..., James Auer
1996 Wisconsin State Journal, April 21, Front and Center, Susan Blocker
1996 The Capital Times, March 6, Minimalism..., Kevin Lynch
1996 Isthmus, March 8-14, Worlds of Possibility, James Rhem
1996 Badger Herald, March 5, Artists Bring Light..., Katrina Swenson
1995 Chicago Tribune, September 26, Alan Artner
1995 Isthmus, January 13-19, Madison, Wisconsin, Jody Clowes
1994 St. Louis Dispatch, CFS, June 24
1994 The Capital Times, December 15, Madison, WI, Kevin Lynch
1994 Wisconsin State Journal, December 18, Madison, WI, Susan Blocker
1994 One Step Beyond: Artists in the Wisconsin Triennial grasp for larger meanings,
16, 1993, Madison, Wisconsin, James Rhem
1993

Isthmus, September

The Commitments: Two Triennial artists get serious about their work

September 16, Madison, Wisconsin, James Rhem
1993

, Isthmus, personal interview,

A Sense of Place, A Sense of Self,

Lynch
1991 Chicago Sun Times,

The Capital Times, September 16, Madison, Wisconsin, Kevin

Exhibits Capture Latin Spirit, Gordon Logocio, May

1991 Chicago Tribune, Twelve Artists go to Heart of Hispanic Culture, Alan Artner, May
1991 Hyde Park Herald, Art Crosses Physical, Psychological Frontiers, Cara Glatt, May
1991 New Art Examiner, Daniel Smajo-Ramirez, John Brunetti, January
1990 Art News, Daniel Smajo-Ramirez, Garrett Holg, November
1990 Chicago Tribune, Wooden Beams, Even Soil. . ., Alan Artner, September
1988 The Christian Science Monitor, Metaphor for the Sublime, Devonna Pieszak, Dec. 15
1988 Sabado, Nelson Oxman, October 15
1988 Cultura 17 LaJornada, Teresa De Conde, October 10

1988 El Universal, Rene Rozainz, September 26
1988 El Nacional, Cobra Auge, September 23
1988 New Art Examiner, Garrett Holg, Summer
1988 Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, January, 28
1987 Chicago Tribune, Terra incognita, Alan Artner, September, 13
1987 Art News, The Chicago Art Explosion, Lisbet Nilson, May
1987 Badische Neueste Nachr Karlsruhe, Kunst Aus Chicago Im Ettlinger Schloss, Vol. 9, June
1987 Chicago Tribune, Spirituality and Dedication Forge Powerful Exhibit by Ramirez,
13
1987 Chicago Sun Times,

Alan Artner, April

Abstracting Toward Reality,

David Elliott, April 8

1987 ARTNews, Franze Schulze, February

Selected Collections
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
AT&T
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Arthur Andersen & Company, Chicago
Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Chicago
Continental Bank, Chicago, IL
David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago
First Illinois Bank of Evanston, IL
First National Bank of Chicago
Frito-Lay, Dallas, TX
Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL
Indiana Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Kemper Group, Long Grove, IL
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Marina Bank, Chicago, IL
Mid-American Club, Chicago
Moraine Valley Community College, IL
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
San Antonio Museum of Art, TX
Sheldon memorial Art gallery, Lincoln, NE
State of Illinois Collection
Quaker Oats, Chicago, IL
Numerous Private Collections