Daniel Lind-Ramos
He // Him // His
Assemblage Sculptor and Painter
Loíza, Puerto Rico (Borikén)

Photo by Raquel Pérez Puig.
Painter and assemblage sculptor Daniel Lind-Ramos was born in 1953 in Loíza, Puerto Rico. Lind-Ramos studied at the University of Puerto Rico (BA, 1975) and New York University (MA, 1979). In 1989, he received the Arana Scholarship to study at Antonio Segui’s studio at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. At present, he is a senior professor at the University of Puerto Rico—Humacao.
His work has been featured in the 100 Drawings from Now exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York, the Storage of Memory solo show at Marlborough Gallery in New York, the 2019 Whitney Biennial, Valparaíso Biennial in Chile, and the Third World Festival of Black Arts in Dakar, Senegal, among many other exhibitions. He has been awarded an AFRICA’SOUT! residency through Joan Mitchell Center, a Joan Mitchell Grant, the Pérez Prize, a NADA Artadia Award, and Artsy Vanguard Award.
He has dabbled in performance with the interdisciplinary projects De Loíza a la Loíza and Talegas de la Memoria, sponsored by the Puerto Rican Museum of Contemporary Art. Lind-Ramos’ works are in included in the collections of numerous museums, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Orlando, FL, Museum of Latin American Art (MOOLA) in Los Angeles, El Museo del Barrio in New York, and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, OR.
Donor -This award was generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 12.02.2024

Vencedor #2 (1797) by Daniel Lind-Ramos, 2020. Wood, ropes, steel, textiles, found objects, objects created by the artist, 70 × 70 × 33 inches.
Photo by Raquel Pérez Puig.

Figura Emisaria by Daniel Lind-Ramos, 2020. Steel, wood, textiles, ropes, found objects, objects created by the artist, 108 × 60 × 47 inches.
Photo by Raquel Pérez Puig, courtesy of Marlborough Gallery and Embajada.

Centinelas (Sentinels) by Daniel Lind-Ramos, 2013. Wood, ropes, steel, textiles, found objects, objects created by the artist, palm tree trunks, branches, coconut plant, burlap, caldrum, 114 × 120 × 48 inches.
Photo courtesy of the artist and Whitney Museum of Art.