LETICIA “GRAVITANIA” RAMIREZ / CURRICULUM VITAE
Born in Mexico City, 1976
Lives and works in San Francisco and Oakland, California, USA since 1999.
RELATED EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2006 - 2009 MFA in New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
1995 - 1999 BFA in Interior Design (graduated with honors), Motolinia del Pedregal University, Mexico City,
Mexico
2005 - 2008 Studies of circus arts at San Francisco Circus Center and Trapeze Arts Oakland, California, USA
2001 - 2003 Photography, CCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
2002 Gallery Management Classes, Oakland Museum/Laney College, Oakland, California, USA
Areas of Specialization: Photography, Installation, Sculpture, Drawing and Furniture Design
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 Artist “Swoon” Installation Assistant during her shows: ‘Feral’ The Luggage Store S.F., ‘The Way
that We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics’ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts S.F. and ‘Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea’ Deitch Projects N.Y.
2008 Teaching Assistantship, ‘Performing for the camera’ San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,
California, USA
2005 - now Fire Performance Instructor and founder of Pyromacy, Oakland, California, USA
2005 - 2006 Co-founder and co-artistic director of the fire performance group Coven, Oakland, California, USA
2002 - 2004 Furniture Design Studio Manager and Photographer, Randolph & Hein, Inc., San Francisco,
California, USA
2000 - 2002 Furniture Design Studio Assistant and Assistant Photographer, Randolph & Hein, Inc., SF, CA. USA
1994 Production Assistant for Alexa Armienta Puppet Company, Mexico City, MEX
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES*
2009 Fort Mason Center, ‘Vernissage: San Francisco Art Institute Master of Fine Arts Graduate Show’ (catalog),
S.F., CA.
The Luggage Store Gallery, ‘Benefit Auction for Project Survival: Art
Installation Warfield Building S.F.’ San Francisco, CA/US
2008 Historic Sweet’s Ballroom, ‘Venetian Snares and Otto Von Schirach, art by Leticia Gravitania and Kelly
Porter’, Oakland, CA./US
Diego Rivera Gallery, ‘New Work by Leticia Gravitania, Colby R. T. Claycomb and Suzanne Kehr’, San
Francisco, CA./US
Diego Rivera Gallery, ‘Continuing MFA Show’, San Francisco, CA./US
Lobot Gallery, ‘Fast-Trak a Bridge and Tunnel Survey’, Oakland, CA./US
2007 Oasis Bar, ‘Super Happy Fun Time Amusement Extravaganza 3, Art by Leticia Gravitania’ Oakland,
CA./US
The Satellite Gallery, ‘Something Sinister’, Oakland, CA./US
2006 San Francisco Art Institute*, ‘Digital Bastards’, San Francisco, CA./US
The Crucible*, ‘5th Annual Fire Arts Festival’, Oakland, CA./US
Black Rock Arts Foundation*, ‘Fire Arts Exposition’ San Francisco, CA./US
Casa Sangre*, ‘Performing with Asunder’, San Francisco, CA./US
2005 The Crucible*, ‘4th Annual Fire Arts Festival’, Oakland, CA./US
Liminal Gallery*, ‘Lucid Dream Lounge’, Oakland, CA./US
Balazo Gallery*, ‘Balazo Gallery Benefit’, San Francisco, CA./US
2004 Balazo Gallery, ‘Doppelganger’, San Francisco, CA./US
Otherworld, ‘Four Projections by Leticia Gravitania’ (solo), Oakland, CA./US
2003 Casa Sangre Gallery, ‘last minute’, Oakland, CA./US
Balazo Gallery, ‘Panty Waste’, San Francisco, CA./US
Overflow, ‘new works by Leticia Gravitania and John-Paul Goorjian’, Oakland, CA./US
Balazo Gallery, ‘Soul Quilt’, San Francisco, CA./US
CURATORIAL WORK
2004 Balazo Gallery, ‘Doppelganger’, San Francisco, CA./US
2003 Casa Sangre Gallery, ‘last minute’, Oakland, CA./US
2002 Casa Sangre Gallery, ‘Shut up woman, or I will beat you!’, Oakland, CA./US
AWARDS
2006-2008 San Francisco Art Institute Grant, San Francisco, CA./US
1999 Graduated with Honors, Motolinia University, Mexico City, Mexico
1999 Thesis Honorific Mention, ‘Mexican Contemporary Art Center in San Francisco California’, Motolinia
University, Mexico City, Mexico
1997-1999 Half Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Motolinia University, Mexico City, Mexico
BIBLIOGRAPHY
•San Francisco Art Institute, (2009). MFA Graduate Exhibition Catalog. SFAI
•Circles of Light. (2005). [DVD]. New Zealand, Home of Poi, color, 90min
•Slingshot Radical Collective, (2005). Slingshot Organizer (Cover illustration).
•Alan Bamberger, ‘Panty Waste: The World Famous Underwear Museum’ Balazo Gallery, 2003, http://www.artbusiness.com/balz2.html
•Joyce Slaton, review of ‘Panty Waste: The World Famous Underwear Museum’ San Francisco Weekly, July 30th, 2003, http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-07-30/calendar/she-s-baaaack