Ileana Ramirez

Biography

Ileana Ramírez Romero is an independent researcher and curator based in Caracas, Venezuela. She is the founder and director of Tráfico Visual, a cultural platform dedicated to contemporary artistic discourse. With a background in law, she brings a multidisciplinary perspective to her work, focusing on the social, critical, and aesthetic dimensions of memory, history, gender, and diaspora. Her research primarily explores collaborative art practices and experimental forms within Latin America.

Most recently, she organized the international group exhibition Supuestos y presupuestos at Ausstellungsraum Klingental in Basel, Switzerland. She contributed as an advisory member and writer for Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023), published by Phaidon Press, and also served as an advisory member for Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art.

In 2022, Ramírez participated in the Goethe-Institut’s program in Rio de Janeiro, where she developed Morar la frontera, a local initiative fostering collaboration between the arts and the community. That same year, she completed a two-month research residency at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Previously, she served as Program Director at the Cisneros Foundation in Caracas until June 2019, leading educational initiatives such as Art in Context and supporting the foundation’s artistic residency program. In 2018, she conceptualized and coordinated the 7th edition of the Fundación Cisneros International Seminar. In 2019, she was invited to the 45th National Salon of Artists of Colombia with her project Crossing the Line.

Ramírez was selected for the 2025 Residency Program in Geneva, Switzerland, supported by Pro Helvetia South America, which will further advance her work in collaborative and interdisciplinary artistic practices. Additionally, she is currently developing Unbound Realms, an upcoming group exhibition at FABRIKculture in Hégenheim, France.

Ileana Ramirez, Independent Curator at Tráfico Visual in Caracas, Venezuela, has been awarded by Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC).