Paul Ramírez Jonas is a Brooklyn-based practicing artist and educator whose work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include Museo Jumex, Mexico City; The New Museum, New York; Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil; The Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Blanton Museum, Austin; a survey at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and Cornerhouse, Manchester, in 2004, and a twenty-five-year survey at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2017. Selected group exhibitions at P.S.1, Queens, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; The Whitechapel Gallery, London; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and Kunsthaus Zürich. He participated in the 1st Johannesburg Biennale; 1st Seoul Biennial; 6th Shanghai Biennial; 28th Sao Paulo Biennial; 53rd Venice Biennial and 7th and 10th Bienal do Mercosul. His projects Key to the City (2010) and Public Trust (2016) were presented by Creative Time in cooperation with the City of New York, and by Now & There in Boston, respectively.

Before his recent chair appointment at Cornell, Ramírez Jonas was an Associate Professor of Art at Hunter College in Brooklyn, New York, where he taught for nearly fifteen years. Ramírez Jonas earned a BA from Brown University in 1987 and an MFA. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. He is represented by the Galeria Nara Roesler in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and New York.