Edwin Ramoran is director of exhibitions and programs at Aljira, a center for contemporary art, in Newark, New Jersey. He is currently working on a group exhibition for Aljira that will focus on house music culture and contemporary art. From 2002-2007, he was director and curator for Longwood Arts Project, the contemporary art center of the Bronx Council on the Arts. Ramoran has organized the following exhibitions at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos: Do You Think I’m Disco, Post Plátano / Ante Formalism: Abstraction in the Bronx, BX1: The First Bronx Artist Biennial, Michael Rakowitz: RETURN, Rehearsed: Nicolás Dumit Estévez, DL: The “Down Low” in Contemporary Art, and No More Drama: New Projects after Novelas. Previously, he was Assistant Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts where he worked from 1994 to 2002. He received a BA in Art History with minors in Ethnic Studies and Journalism from the University of California, Riverside, and is currently an MA candidate in Art History at Hunter College. At the Bronx Museum, he coordinated major exhibitions, co-curated the annual exhibition for the Artist in the Marketplace program, and organized exhibitions for the contemporary art series Critical Points and the Collaborative Art Projects program. He has also been a guest curator in New York at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, PERFROMA 05 at Artists Space, Center for Book Arts, Dieu Donné Papermill and Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, and Visual AIDS. He is also former program director for Arkipelago, the New York City-based Filipino cultural organization.

Mr. Ramoran was recommended by Sergio Bessa, Educational Director at Bronx Museum of Art

Visit apexart's Outbound Blog Out of Residence to read about Mr. Ramoran's trip to Greece.