Paul Henry Ramirez (born 1963 in El Paso, Texas, U.S.) is an American contemporary artist known for his biomorphic abstractionist paintings.
He also gained notability for his site-specific installations as his paintings began to expand outside the confines of the canvas edges onto the walls of the gallery space.
Donald Kuspit, scholar and art critic, describes Ramirez as “an important new kind of abstract painter .
His "total environments" are intended to invite viewers to experience in addition to observe, to feel as if “they are coming into the belly of a painting”[3] as they enter his world — his installation.
Ramirez moved from his native Texas to New Jersey in 1985, then to New York City a few years later to design window and interior displays for retailers Henri Bendel, Charivari, and Takashimaya.