Mel Ramos
Mel Ramos (born July 24, 1935 in Sacramento, California as Melvin John Ramos, † October 14, 2018 in Oakland, California) was an American artist and is considered an important representative of Pop Art.
Mel Ramos (born July 24, 1935 in Sacramento, California as Melvin John Ramos, † October 14, 2018 in Oakland, California) was an American artist and is considered an important representative of Pop Art.
The work of the painter and graphic artist is part of the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He lived and worked in the city of Oakland, California and in the Horta de Sant Joan community in Spain.
1963 Participation in pop art exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston
1964 Solo exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery in New York
1965 Participation in the group exhibition Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, etc. in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1966 Participation in the traveling exhibition 11 Pop Artists through the USA
1967 Solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art
1969 First solo exhibition in oncoming traffic in Germany, Center for Contemporary Art, in Aachen
1972 Solo exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
1974 Participated in a pop art exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
1975 Solo exhibition in the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
1977 First retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California
1991 Participation in the major international traveling exhibition »Pop Art« (Royal Academy of Arts, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
1999 Participation in the group’s graphic exhibition “Pop Impressions” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007 Participation in the Pop Art Portraits exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery in London and in the State Gallery in Stuttgart
2010 Mel Ramos. 50 years of pop art, Kunsthalle Tübingen, (the artist’s first European retrospective)
2011 Mel Ramos, Villa Stuck, Munich
2011 Mel Ramos. Girls, Candies & Comics, Albertina, Vienna
2012 Mel Ramos retrospective, Albertina Vienna
2015 Mel Ramos. My Age of Pop. Ludwig Museum Koblenz
