Gustavo Ramos Rivera
Born in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico
Self-taught
Awards
1993
Eureka Fellowship Fleishhacker Award
One Man Exhibitions
2008
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2006
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2005
Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1998
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1996
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Actual, Thun, Switzerland
1995
Bedford Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Napa, CA
1994
Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Actual, Thun, Switzerland
1993
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
M H De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1992
Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL
1991
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL
Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Hal Katzen Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1989
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1988
Alternative Museum, New York City, NY
1987
Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986
Arte Actual,
Monterrey, Mexico
1981
Rental
Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1980
Galeria Miro,
Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
Bank of America World Headquarters, San
Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
1998
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
1997
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA.
Wade Hoefer & Gustavo Ramos Rivera: New Monotypes
1995
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco
Aurobora Press, San Francisco
1994
Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA, The Singular Print
1993
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA Directions in Bay Area Printmaking
Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Prints & Poems -Livres d’Artistes
SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA Absense of Proof
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco Accrochage 1992
1991
National Museum of Art, Santiago, Chile
Eight Contemporary Artists, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Painted Monotype Gallery Joan Prats, New York
1991
1 Over 1, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990
Mind
and Matter – New American Abstraction Travelling exhibit to Asia, organized by World Print, San Francisco, CA
Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Iturralde Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1989
Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Mano A Mano
University of Santa Cruz & Museum of Modern Art, Santa Cruz, CA Mano A Mano, The Modern Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California
1986
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Art AfterEden : An Unnatural Perspective
Lo Del Corazon , Traveling exhibit organized by the Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
1985
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA Alas y Raices
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA 30,000 B.C. to Present
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Latin American Painting Today
1985
San Francisco Art Commision, San Francisco, CA West Coast Artists
Public Image Gallery, New York City, NY Meridian : Art of the Americas
1984
Alternative Museum, New York City, NY What’s Happening : Contemporary Art From California,Oregon and Washington States
1984
Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA Spectrum
1984
Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico: 11 Artistas Mexicanos
1981
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Four Gallery Artists
1980
Puerto Rico Biennale: San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA , World Print Three
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA The Controlled Gesture
1978
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: Graffiti
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Columbia
197
Seventeen
Mexican American Artists Exhibition traveling throughout several museums in U.S.
1976
20 Bay Area Artists: Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Casa de la Cultura Jaliciense, Guadalajara, Mexico
1974
Mix: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1970
Galeria de La Raza, San Francisco, CA
1968
Centro Regional de Iniciacion Artistica, Torreon, Mexico
Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Mexican Museum
The Oakland Museum
San Francisco International Airport
Palace of Fine Arts & Sciences, San Francisco
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco
The Print Collection, University of California, Berkeley, CA
University of Arizona, Phoenix
Mill’s College, Oakland, CA
Genstar Container Corp, San Francisco
Tuttle & Taylor, San Francisco
L’Auberge du Soleil, Napa, CA
Butler’s, Mill Valley, CA
Vicom/FCB, San Francisco
Koblentz, Cahen, San Francisco
U.S.Capital Corporation, San Francisco
Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco
IBM Corporation
AT&T Corporation, New York, NY
ITEL Corporation, New York, NY
Collection of Robert Bly
Collection of Frank Oppenheimer
Hewlett-Packard
Corporation