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About the Artist





Alkaid Ramirez is a lens-based artist based in Anaheim. Their practice utilizes traditional photography and archiving to capture integral scenes, stories, and civil unrest within their community through material analysis and nuanced perspectives.

Ramirez’s work focuses on significant places and periods in their life that contribute to their identity as the child of resilient immigrant parents and as a second-generation Latino actively deconstructing colonizer ideologies regarding BIPOC identity and assimilation in colonized spaces.

Their work also engages with broader conversations about social inequality and inequity, particularly the systemic challenges faced by working-class immigrants and marginalized communities. Ramirez is driven to document these struggles, challenge societal norms, and highlight their cultural significance for future generations.

Accomplishments

Ramirez’s work has been featured in publications such as Negotiable Frontiers by William Camargo and The Latinx Project, and they are the author of Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb, published by Seaton Street Press in July 2024. They have received several accolades, including the Community Engagement Grant (2023) and the Individual Artist Fellowship 'Emerging Artist' Award from the California Arts Council (2023).

Their participation in group exhibitions includes Counter Archives (2020), Visions of Aztlan (2023), and Reencuentros: Seeing You Again (2024), while their solo shows include El Jale (2021) and Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb (2024).

Ramirez's work has been featured in media outlets like Voice of OC and the LA Times, and their art is part of the AltaMed Private Collection.

Collections and Acquisitions

Alta Med Art Collection

Publications

Stem Magazine.Howe, Elijah, and Jake Langston, editors. July 2019, Issue 2 ‘Space’ p. 15.

Stem Magazine.Howe, Elijah, and Jake Langston, editors. September 2019, Issue 3 ‘Traversing Night’ p. 22.

Stem Magazine.Howe, Elijah, and Jake Langston, editors. June 2020, Issue 4 ‘Incorrect’ p. 31.

Guerrerense Disporia zine, Maritza Geronimo, editor, August 2020, Issue 1, p. 41-44

Negotiable Frontiers. Camargo, William, and The Latinx Project, editor/artist/publication, August 2021, p. 76, 77, 78, 79, 81

Anaheim Blvd : Hood to Suburb, Alkaid Ramirez, Seaton Street Press, July 2024

Awards

Community Engagement Grant Recipient, Community Engagement Org, 2023

Individual Artist FellowShip ‘Emerging Artist’ Award Recipient, California Arts Council, 2023

Group Shows

Portfolio Development Group Show, Redwood Art Association Gallery, Eureka, CA, 2018

Counter Archives, The Curated Fridge, Thecuratedfridge.com, 2020

All Media Show, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, 2020

  • Awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ for Standout Piece in Show

El Otro Lado, Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tx, 2023

Collective Memory Installation, LA County Arts and Culture, Grand Park LA, Los

Angeles, Ca, 2023

Visions Of Aztlan, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, Ca, 2023

Reencuentros: Seeing You Again, 2024, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA.

Art with a Message, OCCCA, Santa Ana, Ca, 2024

Art in The Moment, 2024, Csulb Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, Ca

Reading Room: Zines, Comix and Other Radical Texts, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024

Solo Shows

El Jale Exhibition, Carnegie Plaza at the MUZEO, Anaheim, Ca, 2021

Terrain, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, 2022

Anaheim Blvd : Hood to Suburb, Crear Studio, Santa Ana, Ca, 2024