Marcos Ramírez ERRE

Marcos Ramírez ERRE was born in 1961 in Tijuana, Mexico; he lives and works in Tijuana.

Ramírez, known as “ERRE” (from the Spanish pronunciation of the first letter of his surname), is considered one of the preeminent artists in the region, and the senior figure in the burgeoning Tijuana artist community. He creates large-scale public installations informed by a political and social consciousness and is a longtime explicator and arbiter of the cross-border dialogue. In his work, ERRE brings a poetic sensibility to the physical, economic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries that separate people. He first received critical acclaim for his contributions to inSITE94 and inSITE97, binational exhibitions in San Diego and Tijuana. Since that time, he has exhibited in one-person shows in the United States and Mexico; was represented at the Bienal São Paulo-Valencia: Encuentro entre dos mares in Valencia, Spain, the 2007 Moscow Biennale, and the VII and VI Habana Bienal in Cuba; and showed at the 2000 Whitney Biennial in New York. He has been included in several important group exhibitions, including Made in California at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2002); an exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2003); Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s (2003); and Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art (2004). He is a recipient of a 2007 United States Artist Fellowship award and grant from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico, and his work is in private collections and museums in the region.