Ramona Gomez is an urban ecologist and artist surviving in Berlin. Originating from Los Angeles, She earned a BA in Fine Art and Urban Planning from University of California Los Angeles. Her process begins with with the serendipity of chance discovery and allows for the ecosystem of her works to grow from this initial retreival. Hunting for signs and symbols in the urban peripheries, she sifts through the debris to identify the discrepancies between cycles of old and new, death and rebirth, kitsch and class, trash and treasure, and the art of spinning a capitalist fable to believe in.
Ramona Gomez is an artist, event coordinator, and curator, hailing from Los Angeles and now based in Berlin. Interested in representing marginal musicians and artists, she works with the local and international artist community, securing grants to provide a platform for underrepresented artists. She exhibits in group and solo shows in Berlin with artist-run galleries such as GRUND, Erratum, Sameheads, and MOLT. As a curator and event coordinator, she works with Berlin-based institutions to curate events, having showcased artists such as LOLSNAKE, VINVAR and CREAMS. Creating commissions on the international scale, she’s worked with clients such as Caroline Polachek, Marc Jacobs, Sara Silva, and Vogue Italia. She is the co-founder of fluid.vision, an artist and musician collective that is the two time recipient of the Tag Der Klub Kultur grant for Berlin based artist collectives in 2022 and 2024. She is also a member of the Random Kingdom Collective, which in 2024 received funding from the Goethe Institut and Institut Francais to host the Berlin and Marseille based residency Queering Nature: The Quest. She is the co-founder of the independent publishing press, Tampico Press Books.
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Education
2020, BA , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2023
I wear my tenderness like an armor, April 6- current, Self-Curated, Sameheads, Berlin
2019
Lost Amulets, April 18- May 5, Self-Curated, Little Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Plastic Birth, April 21-28, curated with Camille Belmin and AVery LongDay, Molt Gallery, Berlin.
2020
UCLA Undergraduate Juried Show, curated by Ike Onyewuenyi, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
UCLA Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition, curated by Cathy Opie, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Lari Pittman, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Eternal Zest, curated with Stella Lamar, Eliot Fernau, Michael Bala, and Ethan Jannsen, Little Gallery, Los Angeles
2016
MOCA LVAP Group Show, Curated by Kahlil Josef, Underground Museum, Los Angeles
Nex(t)us, curated by Barry Markowitz and Liz Young, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Projects / Publications
2022
“Night Path” dress made for Sara Silva for “Taurus” film premiere, June 10, Tribeca Film Festival, New York.
https://www.insider.com/machine-gun-kelly-megan-fox-blood-earring-taurus-premiere-tribeca-2022-6#sara-silva-stunned-in-a-sheer-dress-on-the-red-carpet-she-plays-an-escort-in-the-film-credited-as-zia-on-imdb-7
“Orbital Pearl” and “Lace Degrade” dresses made for Ap0cene Collective.
https://ap0cene.com/collections/ramona-gomez
“JUST LIKE HEAVEN”, digital collages for Heaven by Marc Jacobs magazine, Los Angeles
https://www.instagram.com/p/CgUiHn-AsXz/?hl=en
2021
“The Ecology of Remixing”, written for Graphite Journal in Los Angeles.
http://www.graphitejournal.com/issues/
“Vertebrate Ephemera” dress for Caroline Polachek, New York Fashion Week https://web.archive.org/web/20210912090927/https://www.thecut.com/2021/09/street-style-from -nyfw-spring-22.html
“Orbital Pearl” dress photographed by Yoav Erteschik for PhotoVogue Italia
https://www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/portfolio/?id=253951