vaya pues is an exhibition that investigates transnational social and cultural histories. Combining familial and historical archival photographs, video, audio and storytelling, Ramirez examines the gaps that exist in both her personal and cultural history as a Salvadoran-American.
Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez is a Salvadoran-American artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Her practice combines the language of photography with site-specific installations and text. Her work is based on notions of memory, personal and historical amnesia that trace the veins of the Central American diaspora. In an attempt to reconcile with her personal and cultural histories and memories, she creates work to validate truth, false memories, filtered history and fantasy.
Ramirez has taught photography at UT Austin and has been an artist in residence at The Studios at MASS MOCA, ACRE Residency and Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Women and Their Work Gallery, Visual Arts Center, Co-Lab Projects, Cage Match Project, MASS Gallery, The Union, MECA, and Aurora Picture Show among others and has been featured in publications including the Austin Chronicle, The Horchata Zine, and Hyperallergic. She is a recipient of The Foundation of Contemporary Art Emergency Fund.
Ramirez received her BFA at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA and her MFA at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas. She currently lives and works in Pearland, Texas.
www.stephaniecramirez.com