SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
HOMAGE TO A CHIMNEY SWIFT, Spectacle Exhibitions/57W57Arts, Wilton, CT
2024
FLYING COLORS, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, May-September (solo)
CIRCUMSTANCE OF AIR, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
A FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY (with Leslie Roberts)
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 (with Hilda Shen)
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
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)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
NEW MEMBERS EXHIBITION, American Abstract Artists, MC Gallery, New York, NY
2023
A CLEARING, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
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, CT
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
MATERIAL ATTRACTION, NYIT School of Architecture and Design, New York, NY
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 venues
MAKING 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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
EDUCATION
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
B.A., Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCY
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 2012
AFFILIATION
Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY (flat files)
Yi Gallery, NY
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
American Abstract Artists
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Hofstra Museum of Art
Brooklyn College
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Ritz Carlton
Private Collections