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| Edwin Ramoran Curator (Bronx, New York) Oct 29 - Nov 24 2007 to Athens, Greece |
Edwin Ramoran was in conversation with past
apexart Inbound resident Sofija Grandakovska, Outbound
resident Jayson Keeling and writer Carlo McCormick on Mar 11, 2009. |
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 Read Mr. Ramoran's blog
posts. |
