»With the South on My Back« Mexico City, 2024

Installation view, With the South on My Back, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2024

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala, 1978) lives and works in Guatemala.

The work of Ramírez-Figueroa explores dreams, stories and specific historical narratives to reinterpret events in Latin America—particularly those related to Mesoamerica, processes of colonization, or the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996).

His work were recently presented in, Light Spectra at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2025) and He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, amongst them, Chosen Memories, The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York (2023); Cantándole a las plantas, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (2023); Cantándole a las plantas, Performances 2001-2023, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (2023); Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Museum Leuven (2022); Beyond, the Sea Sings, Times Art Center (2021); Avanzar con paso leve, Thyssen-Bornemisza (2020); Asymmetries, The Power Plant, Toronto (2020); At Small Arms, Toronto Biennial Of Art (2019); The House of Kawinal, New Museum, New York (2018); Shit Baby and the Crumpled Giraffe, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2017); The Green Ray, daadgalerie, Berlin (2017) and Linnæus in Tenebris, CAPC Musée dʼart contemporain, Burdeos (2017). Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2024).

In addition, Ramírez-Figueroa participated in VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (2017); Two Flamingos Copulating on a Tin Roof, Haus Esters, Krefeld Kunstmuseum, Krefeld (2017); Incerteza Viva, 32nd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2016); Godʼs Reptilian Finger, Gasworks, London (2015); Rendez-Vous, 13th Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2015); Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju (2014); A Chronicle of Interventions, Tate Modern, London, (2014); Illy Present Future, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2013); Beber y Leer El Arcoíris, Casa América, Madrid (2012); Home Works IV, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2008); y 53th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, (2007). He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mies Van Der Rohe Award, a Franklin Furnace Award, Inga Maren Otto Award, Artpace Residency, an Akademie Schloss Solitude Scholarship (selected by Dan Graham) and a DAAD

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Artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa and gallery director Toni Sadurní on the occasion of Ramírez-Figueroa solo exhibition "With the South on My Back" at Galerie Nordenhake Mexico, January 20, 2024.

Installation view of Fettered Flamingos, 2017, featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Detail of Fettered Flamingos, 2017 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Installation view of Lugar de consuelo, 2016-2020 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Installation view Lugar de consuelo 2016-2020 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Detail of Lugar de consuelo, 2016-2020, featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Installation view of Light Spectra at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Installation view of Cradle and Lullaby [Cuna y arrullo], 2025 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Still from Illusion of Matter [La ilusión de la materia] 2015 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Installation view of Light Spectra at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Detail of Chiperrec, 2021 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Untitled (from the series Huertos de los ch'olti), 2020 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Installation view of Light Spectra at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.

Illusion of Matter, 2015 featured in the Light Spectra exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Photographic Archive.