Bony Ramirez
Bony Ramirez (born 1996) is a Dominican-born American self-taught painter and visual artist based in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and Harlem, New York. Ramirez works primarily in paintings, sculptures, and installations that comment on elements of Caribbean visual and material culture. Biography Ramirez was born in the city of Tenares, in the Dominican Republic. He emigrated to the United States with his nuclear family when he was thirteen years old. His parents told the artist and his brother that they would go on a trip to Disney, and the Ramirez family established a home in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he attended Perth Amboy High School. As Ramirez could not afford an arts degree after finishing high school, he went on to work in construction with his uncle. During his construction years, to develop a more sustainable and affordable artistic practice, he used to buy paintings from thrift stores in order to reuse their canvases. By repurposing old canvases from second-hand painti ...
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Tenares, Dominican Republic
Tenares is a town in the Hermanas Mirabal Province, Hermanas Mirabal Provinces of the Dominican Republic, province of the Dominican Republic. References Sources

* – World-Gazetteer.com Populated places in Hermanas Mirabal Province Municipalities of the Dominican Republic {{DominicanRepublic-geo-stub ...
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