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Christian olid-ramirez is a first-generation Mexican-American artist born and raised in San Gabriel Valley, CA. ramirez completed his MFA at Michigan State University as a University Enrichment Fellow in 2023. His studio practice explores the possibilities of constructing a system of working as an arena for social and political anxiety. Informed by his mestizo hybrid identity, sensory observations, modernist abstraction, Mexican folk art, and Mesoamerican architecture, ramirez’s research-driven and intuitive process is analogous to destabilized socio-political structures, wherein measured decisions collide with chance, sabotage, corruption, and error. In addition to exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions throughout California and nationally, ramirez is the founder and co-director of Basement Projects, a non-profit arts project space dedicated to diversity and inclusion in Downtown Santa Ana, CA.
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