Born in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico
1940 San Francisco, CA
1969 - present Gustavo Ramos Rivera spent his childhood in a little Mexican border town called Ciudad Acuña. An internationally respected artist who has exhibited work in galleries and museums in the United States, Mexico, South America, and Europe; Ramos Rivera has spent the past 50 years living and working as an artist in San Francisco, Mexico and Europe. His paintings and monotypes shimmer with the colors of his childhood, watching his mother cook, playing in his grandmother’s garden, swimming in the creek. A self-taught artist whose father encouraged his talent and desire to paint by allowing him to paint murals on the walls inside their tiny adobe home, Gustavo’s paintings are informed by these simple images saturated with the richness of his memories, culture and family in Mexico.
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (Thiebaud Anniversary exhibit)
2019 Eaglesmith Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (solo)
2018 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (20th anniversary exhibit)
2018 Whitney Modern, Los Gatos, CA (group show)
2017 Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2017 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2017 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (group sculpture exhibit)
2016 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (solo)
2015 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2013 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2012 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (solo)
2006 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (solo)
2006 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (solo)
2005 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2005 Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico. Travel: Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas (solo)
2004 Galerie Dionisi, Hollywood, CA (solo)
2004 The Monotype Marathon," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1999 The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. Travels to de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
1999 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1998 Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
1996 Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1994 Wilfred Von Guten Galerie, Thun, Switzerland (solo)
1994 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1993 Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland
1993 12 Bay Area Painters Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1993 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1993 Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1991 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1991 Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Joan Prats Gallery, New York, NY, The Painted Monotype
1991 Margulis Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL (solo)
1991 Absence of Proof, Somar Gallery Space, San Francisco, CA
1990 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1990 Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 The Painted Monotype, Joan Prats Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1988 Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, traveling exhibition to Asia, by World Print, San Francisco, CA
1988 Mano a Mano, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California, Santa Cruz and Oakland, CA
1986 Art After Eden: An Unnatural Perspective, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Alas y Raices, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1985 Mexico: The New Generations, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
1985 Latin American Paining Today, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
1985 Meridian: Art of the Americas, Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
DeYoung, San Francisco, CA
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA
Museu De Arte Assis Chateaubriand, da Universidad de Paraiba, Brazil.
Museo Felguerez, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ
Stanford University Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA
Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Palo Alto, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Gustavo signing an engraving at, Guachabato Editions, the most respected print shop in Guadalajara, with owner and master printer Sergio Ruiz. 2012
Gustavo and Alejandro in consultation at Perfiles y Molduras De Acero.
Taller De Grabado, Guachabato in Guadalajara with Sergio Ruiz, Rachel Guerrero- Directors, Gustavo Rivera-Artist, Edwardo Naranjo, Master printer, and Jose, Technician
Blaes Atelier on the Arne River in Bern Switzerland where Gustavo often works in the summer making monoprints.
Blaes Atelier - Bern, Switzerland
Perfiles y Moduras De Acero, Fabricacion De Esculturas, in Guadalajara, Mexico with Jaime Ramirez-Director, Gustavo Rivera-Artist, Alejandro-Technician and Welder.