BIO

Troy David Ramos is an interdisciplinary artist based in metro Detroit, Michigan, working in video installation, film, painting, and sound art. He holds an MA in Music Composition from the University of York in England (2008) and began his artistic career in 2010. His work has been exhibited and commissioned by the Ann Arbor Film Festival, ArtMile Detroit, ArtPrize, MCACA, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, and others.

EDUCATION

2008 MA in Music Composition, University of York, York, England
2004 BA in German, Music Composition, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

CV

Born 1975 in Michigan, USA.
Lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025  GLITCH, Painting, Group Exhibition, Paint Creek Center for Arts, Rochester, MI
2025  DON’T TALK. DON’T SAY ANYTHING. LET ME LOOK AT YOU, Video/Sound Install, Jail Cell Gallery at Hatch Art Gallery in Hamtramck, MI.
2024  RED PILL/BLUE PILL, Inner Space, Paintings, Group Exhibit, Detroit Artist Market Detroit, MI.
2024  TANNHAUSER GATES, Painting, Auction at Galleria Camille in Detroit, MI (SOLD).
2024  Trails, Adrift, Paintings, Group Exhibition at 333 Midland Gallery in Detroit, MI.
2024  Cycles of change, Video/Sound Install, Group Exhibition, NOVA 24 Film Festival, Detroit, MI.
2024  Sonar, Trails, Adrift, Paintings, Group Exhibition, Detroit Contemporary Gallery, Detroit, MI.
2024  Silly LOVE SONGS, Painting, Group Exhibition, Embrace Creatives Gallery, Hazel Park, MI.
2024  Taping the World Together and He said, he said, Paintings, Group Exhibition: Mojo Dojo Casa House, Embrace Creatives Gallery, Hazel Park, MI.
2023  No. 6, from structures, Painting, Detroit artists market, Group Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan.
2023  everything will be alright, Photographs, 52 scarab club annual photography Group exhibition, Detroit, Michigan.
2023  Moving in Shorter Thoughts, Video/Sound Installation, Off the Screen Program at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI.
2022  ABANDONED, Sculpture & Sound Installation, Gillett Bridge, Grand Rapids, MI. Supported by ArtPrize’s Featured Public Project grant.
2022  Amid a Crowd of Stars, Neon Light Public Art Installation, Battle Creek, MI. Supported by MCACA Grant, City of Battle Creek. Neon fabrication/installation by Nain Rouge Neon (Detroit).
2022  I Want You to Stay, Solo Paintings Exhibition, Detroit Shipping Company Gallery, Detroit, MI.
2021  Moving in Shorter Thoughts, Video & Sound Installation, ArtPrize, City Hall Venue, Grand Rapids, MI. Supported by ArtPrize Grant.
2020  Passing Time, Video Installation, Curator Lucy Mensah,  Art Mile Detroit, Organized by Reyes I Finn and Cultural Counsel in partnership with Red Bull Arts. City-wide digital art exhibition.
2018  Sound Space, Sound/Light Installation, Fifth Third Center, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI.

AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

Color the Creek Street Art Festival, Binda Foundation Arts & Culture Grant, 2024.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Artist Honorarium, Ann Arbor, MI, 2023.
ArtPrize Featured Public Project Grant, Grand Rapids, MI, 2022.
MCACA Project Grant (Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs), Kalamazoo, MI, 2022.
ArtPrize Equity Grant, Grand Rapids, MI, 2021.
MCACA Project Grant (Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs), Kalamazoo, MI, 2020.
Art Mile Detroit Project Fund, Detroit, MI, 2020.
Community Art Grant from WK Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI, 2020.
KADL Grant from Arts Council of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI, 2019.
Pitch Night Detroit Award, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI, 2018.