Pablo José Ramírez
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Pablo José Ramírez

Pablo José Ramírez is a curator, art writer and cultural theorist. He holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published extensively and has been member of different curatorial advisory boards and juries for institutions such as Gasworks, The Visible Award, MADC, Teoretica, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros among others. Ramirez is the former Artistic Director at Ciudad de la Imaginación (2010-2014). Following that, he has been working internationally as independent curator and researcher. Among his recent exhibitions are: This Might be a Place for Hummingbirds co-curator with Remco de Blaaij, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2014); The Party of Others: Terike Haapoja, Ciudad de la Imaginación, Guatemala (2014); Guatemala Después, co-curator with Nitin Sahwney and Anabella Acevedo, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, New York (2015); 8,000 Años Después, Liberia, Bogota (2017); The Shores of the World: on communality and interlingual politics, Display, Prague (2018). Currently Ramirez is working on a project for Tate Modern related to sound and community, to be commissioned by Tate Exchange for 2020. In 2015 he co-curated with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Anabella Acevedo and Rosina Cazali the19th Bienal de Arte Paiz and is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of the curatorial journal Infrasonica, to be launched in 2019. Ramirez was awarded with the Independent Curators International/CPPC 2019 Travel Award. His interests rely on questions of coloniality and translation, the relation indigeneity — contemporary art, non-human thought and sound as a political speculative experience.