Pablo José Ramírez

Pablo José Ramírez is a curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. From 2019 to 2023 he was the inaugural adjunct curator of First Nations and Indigenous art at Tate Modern, London, where he played a key role in shaping the acquisitions strategy for and advancement of Indigenous and non-Western practices. Ramírez was part of the curatorial council of the 58th Carnegie International with Sohrab Mohebbi. He co-curated the 19th Paiz Art Biennial: Transvisible (2015) with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, and recently, he co-curated with Diana Nawi the critically acclaimed Hammer Museum biennial Made in LA 2023: Acts of Living. His work explores non-Western ontologies, Brown and Indigenous histories, and the politics of non-colonial aesthetics. He holds an MA in contemporary art theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Among his recent exhibitions are Beyond the Sea Sings: Diasporic Intimaciesand Labour, Times Art Center, Berlin (2021); La Medida del Silencio: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, NuMu, Guatemala City (2020); The Shores of the World: On Commonality and Interlingual Politics, Display, Prague (2018); and Guatemala Después (co-curator), Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, New York (2015). Ramírez was the recipient of the 2019 Independent Curators International / CPPC Award for Central America and the Caribbean and is the cofounder of Infrasonica, a leading curatorial platform dedicated to research around non-Western sonic cultures. Ramírez has lectured internationally at the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the National Museum of Oslo, MUAC, Gasworks, ParaSite, Bergen Kunsthalle, Kunstintituut Melly, the University of Cape Town, Essex University, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, Simon Fraser University, and the New School, among others. He has published extensively, including pieces for Artforum, Mousse, e-flux, Arts of the Working Class, and several catalogues and books.