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 have taking place at 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); 58 th Carnegie International , Pittsburgh (2022); Times Art Center, Berlin (2021); 22 nd 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); 57 th La Biennale di Venezia (2017); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York (2017); 32 nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016); 13 th La Biennale de Lyon (2015); 19 th Bienal de Arte Paiz , Guatemala City (2014); 10 th Gwangju Biennial (2014).