ramón jiménez cárdenas (b. Oaxaca, Mexico. 1996) ramón jiménez cárdenas is an artist and a curator based in Rotterdam. He is also a curator at La Clínica, an artist-led exhibition space and artist-in-residency in Oaxaca, Mexico.
jiménez cárdenas' practice is rooted in problematizing auto-ethnographical methods through object making, and installations that address design's influence in modernity. His work is characterized by his exploration of the aesthetics of modernism as a colonial apparatus of separation. Interested in the representation and construction of the other, and the weaponization of desire.
As an artist his work has been exhibited in venues such as the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, YNGSPC, Jonald Dudd in NYC, Onomatopee Projects in Eindhoven, Salon Acme and Guadalajara 90210 in Mexico City, and the Amsterdam Ferry Festival. He has been involved in residencies at another world, Rib Rotterdam, and EKWC. His SAIC graduation project, Mending Wall, is currently on display at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK).
As a curator for La Clínica, ramón has consolidated the artistic production of international artists, curated exhibitions that address gender and matter, and facilitated partnerships with the Stimuleringsfonds, the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), Pro Helvetia, and the Canadian Council for the Arts.
ramón holds an MA/HBO in curatorial studies and critical theory from the Design Academy Eindhoven, and a BFA in sculpture and art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
