Debra Ramsay is an artist working in the disciplines of abstract painting, drawing, and installation. She maintains a full-time studio practice in New York City.
Ramsay has exhibited her work internationally for over three decades, including in Denmark, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Solo exhibitions in the United States include the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ, 2024, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY, Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, VT, 2017; Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, and 57 W 57th Arts, NY, 2016. Additional recent exhibitions include A Field Guide to Birds at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, 2024, Mere Reflection at Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY, 2022, in 2021: Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, (de)coding at the Visual Arts Center of NJ, and Embody at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art in New Haven.
Ramsay has been invited to several residencies, including two residencies at the Golden Foundation in New York, in 2013 and 2018, at the Albers Foundation, in 2016, and a fellowship at BAU Institute in Italy, in 2012. Her work is in the Hofstra University Museum of Art and Brooklyn College collections.
The Center for Humans and Nature Press will digitally publish Ramsay’s The Nature of Time, One Year of Bird Migrations in 2024. She was interviewed by BirdNote.org this spring, which aired on NPR, listen here, their blog post expanding the interview is here. In 2020, Ramsay was the featured visual artist in The Cincinnati Review, and in 2017 her work was included in an exhibition and publication of the same name, Chromotopia: An Illustrated History of Colour. Thames and Hudson published the book by David Coles.
Writing about Ramsay’s work includes:
Debra Ramsay: Creating Abstract Paintings of Migratory Birds, BirdNote.org, February 13, 2024
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles, Thames and Hudson, Australia, 2018
An Aggregate of Forces: 60 women artists, JoanneMatteraArtBlog, August 8, 2017
Artists on Rhythm: Debra Ramsay, Tilted Arc (Blog), February 3, 2015
Interview by Valerie Brennan, Studio Critical (Blog), December 16, 2014
The Daily Beast, “Daily Pic” by Blake Gopnik, October 3, 2013
A video interview describing the Landscape As Time project can be found here: