Bony Ramirez (born 1996) is a Dominican-born American self-taught painter and visual artist based in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and Harlem, New York.
[4][2] During his construction years, to develop a more sustainable and affordable artistic practice, he used to buy paintings from thrift stores in order to reuse their canvases.
[4][6] Among the artist's art historical interests is the portraiture of the European Mannerist movement and its stylistic colonial influence across Latin America and the Caribbean.
[5] Because his mother was a church-goer back in the Dominican Republic, religious objects from the Renaissance play an important part in Ramirez's visual cues.
[7] The fauna and flora of the Caribbean are often depicted in Ramirez's paintings and visual worlds, plantain and coconut trees, machetes and knives, seashells and crabs, appear repeatedly creating a taxonomy of the region.
[10] His work was featured in The New York Times review of collective exhibition Shattered Glass at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in Los Angeles, California.
In the show, on top of his figurative colorful paintings, the artist's interest in taxidermy and the Caribbean fauna is represented through a bullhead attached to a wood panel placed at the entrance of the exhibition and by representations of cockfighting.