Ramiro Quesada Pons

Title: Untitled (2024)
Technique: Plasticine and Clay Modeling
Description: Freely executed modeling sessions, guided by the use of personal sculptures as references, aimed at fostering a creative environment and exploring foundational interactions with materials in the art-making process.

Ramiro Quesada Pons describes himself as a miniaturist. With his own hands, he models small figures that create landscapes inhabited by peculiar characters, both charming and sinister, influenced by the aesthetics of comics, video games, science fiction, literature, and internet imagery. He constructs narratives shaped by everyday objects that he alters in form, color, and function, presenting them in installations, sculptures, paintings, and videos.
His landscapes offer an experience of estrangement through artistic operations, addressing themes such as the relationship between bodies and technology, consumption, and existentialism, with nods to both art history and contemporary popular culture.

In 2009, the YPF Foundation awarded him a scholarship to participate in the Artist Program at the Torcuato Di Tella University. In 2010, he took part in the regional Entrecampos program, taught by Patricia Hakim, Fernando Castro Flores, and María Iovino. In 2012, he was selected as a grantee at the Center for Artistic Research. In 2013, he won the FNA-ConTI scholarship and the Igualdad Cultural award.

In 2014, he was invited to join the collective project La Verdi, organized by Ana Gallardo. In 2017, he was selected to develop the project The Real Image at the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial. In 2018, he won the creation prize from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Fund for Culture. In 2019, he participated in the Port Tonic Art Center residency in Les Issambres, France.

In 2020, he was a finalist for the Azcuy Prize, organized by the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. In 2021, he presented the installation The Accidental Image with NVS Lisbon in Marseille, France. In 2022, he participated in Together, curated by Direlia Lazo, at the Seven Seas Motel in Miami, and presented the installation The Intercessors at the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial.

In 2023, he took part in the exhibition A Slow Coming, Chapter 2. Oxenford Collection, curated by Mariano Mayer at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo. He has held solo exhibitions in various centers and galleries in Argentina and abroad. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.