About Debra Ramsay
Debra Ramsay is an artist working in the disciplines of abstract painting, drawing, and installation. She maintains a full-time studio practice in New York City.
Ramsay has exhibited her work internationally for over three decades, including in Denmark, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Solo exhibitions in the United States include the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ, 2024, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY, Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, VT, 2017; Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, and 57 W 57th Arts, NY, 2016. Additional recent exhibitions include A Field Guide to Birds at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, 2024, Mere Reflection at Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY, 2022, in 2021: Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, (de)coding at the Visual Arts Center of NJ, and Embody at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art in New Haven.
Ramsay has been invited to several residencies, including two residencies at the Golden Foundation in New York, in 2013 and 2018, at the Albers Foundation, in 2016, and a fellowship at BAU Institute in Italy, in 2012. Her work is in the Hofstra University Museum of Art and Brooklyn College collections.
The Center for Humans and Nature Press will digitally publish Ramsay’s The Nature of Time, One Year of Bird Migrations in 2024. She was interviewed by BirdNote.org this spring, which aired on NPR, listen here, their blog post expanding the interview is here. In 2020, Ramsay was the featured visual artist in The Cincinnati Review, and in 2017 her work was included in an exhibition and publication of the same name, Chromotopia: An Illustrated History of Colour. Thames and Hudson published the book by David Coles.
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2025
HOMAGE TO A CHIMNEY SWIFT, Spectacle Exhibitions/57W57Arts, Wilton, CT (solo)
2024
DEBRA RAMSAY: FLYING COLORS, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ (solo)
FIELD NOTES, DEBRA RAMSAY & LESLIE ROBERTS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
A CIRCUMSTANCE OF THE AIR, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2021
WHERE WE MEET OURSELVES: DEBRA RAMSAY & GJ KIMSUNKEN, Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019
A CLEARING: SHARON BRANT & DEBRA RAMSAY, Key Projects Art Space, Long Island City, NY
2018
DEBRA RAMSAY: PAINTING TIME, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT (solo)
2017
THREE SHELF REDDER, 325 Space, Ridgewood, Queens
2016
HUE[S]PACE, Odetta, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
LANDSCAPE AS TIME, 57 W 57th Arts, NY, NY (solo)
2015
ALEX PAIK & DEBRA RAMSAY: GENERATIVE PROCESSES, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
MATERIAL ATTRACTION, NYIT School of Architecture and Design, New York, NY
2014
LANDSCAPE AS TIME, Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden/Pocket Utopia, NY, NY (solo)
2013
MAT/tam, Palazzo Costa, Mantova, Italy, curated by Lucio Pozzi (solo)
2012
DESIRE LINES, Blank Space Art, NY, NY (solo)
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2026
ABSTRACT BY DEFINITION: AN INDEX, 90th Anniversary Exhibition of American Abstract Artists, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
PEAK MIGRATION, Calico Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2025
NEW MEMBERS EXHIBITION, American Abstract Artists, MC Gallery, New York, NY
2023
ADAGIO, Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022
MERE REFLECTION, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY
2021
REMOTE RECONNECTION, Stonehill College, Easton, MA
BAU BOX, Viareggio, Italy
(DE)CODING, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
EMBODY, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven
2020
LIMINAL SPACE, Karen Imperial Fine Art, Palo Alto, CA
Stout Projects, Taos, NY
2018
BLACK BOX, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhuas, Saarbrucken, DE
EXQUISITE PALETTE, Tacit Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2017
CHROMOTOPIA, Tacit Galleries, Melbourne, AU
EXTENDED PROCESS, Saturation Point Projects, Deptford, UK
RE-INSTITUTE, Millerton, NY
OPPLER, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
2016
LAND, AIR, PLACE, Project: ARTspace, NY, NY
FICTION (WITH ONLY DAYLIGHT BETWEEN US) .v2, traveling: Dayton, OH, Heidelberg, Germany, Angelika
Studios, High Wycombe, UK, Elgin Community College, Chicago, IL
2015
VOLUME 2: Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
THE VIOLENT STUDY GROUP, Stout Projects, Brooklyn, NY
THE SHAPE IT TAKES, Ball & Socket Arts, Cheshire, CT
TERRITORY OF ABSTRACTION, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014
THE BRUCENNIAL, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, NY, NY
MADE IN PAINT, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
DOPPLER SHIFT, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
2013
SESSION ONE, Pocket Utopia Gallery, NY, NY, curated by Austin Thomas
RITUALS OF EXHIBITION II, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
DOPPLER STOP, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
DUAL ZONES, Key Projects Art Space, New York, NY
ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS 2013, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
REAL-TIME, Pop-Up Exhibition, NY, NY curated by Jill Conner
RITUALS OF EXHIBITION, Phayao, Thailand, curated by Giles Ryder and Gilbert Hsiao
2012
ENCAUSTIC WORKS BIENNIAL ’12, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY
TEMPORARY ART MANTO, a series of brief exhibitions curated/organized by Lucio Pozzi and Annarosa
Buttarelli, an international range of venuesMAKING ROOM, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
DOPPLER STOP, curated traveling group show, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Zagreb
DOMINO 02, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Jackson Arts Center, Fall River, MA
TEXTILITY, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ
2011
VISUAL PHRASING, Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
AN EXCHANGE WITH SOL LEWITT, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
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The Nature of Time: One Year of Bird Migration, Humans and Nature Press, October 11, 2024
Interview with BirdNote, February 22, 2024
Condon, Elisabeth, Specificity, Raggedy Anne’s Foot (Blog), December 04, 2021
The Cincinnati Review, Spring 2020, Featured Artist Portfolio, University of Cincinnati
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles, Thames and Hudson, 2017
Cascone, Sarah, 10 Must See Events and Artworks, Artnet, September 30, 2016
Condon, Elisabeth, Bushwick Saturday, Raggedy Anne's Foot (Blog), September 11, 2016
Artists on Rhythm: Debra Ramsay, Tilted Arc (Blog), February 3, 2015
Interview by Valerie Brennan, Studio Critical (Blog), December 16, 2014
Painters' Table (Blog), December 2014
Gopnik, Blake. Daily Beast, Daily Pic, Hudson River School, 2.0, (Blog), October 3, 2013
Encaustic Works ’12, A Biennial Exhibition in Print, Gallery at R&F, Kingston, New York, 2012
Textility, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, 2012
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Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
B.A., Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NYItem description
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Golden Family Foundation, New Berlin, NY, December 2018
Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, CT February-March 2016
Golden Family Foundation, New Berlin, NY April-May 2013
BAU Institute, Otranto, Italy, June 2012Item description
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Hofstra Museum of Art
Brooklyn College
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Ritz Carlton
Golden Art Foundation
Private Collections
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Puffin Foundation
Pollock Krasner Foundation