Born in Miami, FL to Cuban exiles, Victoria Ravelo's practice begins at the intersection of personal, ancestral, and collective memory. Her drawings, photographs, sculptures and installations utilize abstraction and metaphor to tease apart the multilayered histories that form a time and place. Contending with the tension between what is lost and what can only be remembered, Ravelo’s work simultaneously explores, connects, and cultivates cultural roots that modern society actively works to erase.

Photo by Nicole Combeau.

Education
2021                MFA, Painting, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2015                BFA, Painting, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
                         

Solo Exhibitions
2022 the space between thoughts, Under the Bridge Art Space, North Miami, FL

2021                LAB MFA: Hidden in Plain View, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
A Place for Us, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

2018               Take me home, Flowerbox Projects, Miami, FL

2016               Now, Miami Dade College Homestead Art Space, Homestead, FL


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Drawing Curiosity, Neufolk, Denver, CO
Bridge Deconstruction Site, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL
Penumbra, Tunnel Projects, Miami, FL (two-person)
Draw: Point to Point, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

2022          Murmuration, Round 54: Southern Survey Biennial, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver
     Reclaimed, Under the Bridge Art Space, North Miami, FL 
Borders and Portals, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
Radical Pleasure, Spady Museum, Delray Beach, FL
Home + Away Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2021                Everything Must Go, Atelier Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Introspective: A Reckoning of the Soul, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Last Year, Flowerbox Projects, Miami, FL
            but when you come from water, The Chapter House, Los Angeles, CA
La casa vacía, Grupo Ánima, Habana, Cuba        

2018               On Paper, & Gallery, Miami, FL
Boundary, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
outlaw culture: or higher ground, Bridge Red Studios, Miami, FL
Baby Planet - What You Looked Like When You Arrived in the USA, The Nightclub at Farside Gallery, Miami, FL
Hard Edge Miami, University of Miami Gallery at Wynwood, Miami, FL

2017               In Times of Uncertainty, Edge Zones, Miami, FL

2016               Summer Solstice, Flowerbox Projects, Miami, FL

2015               BFA Graduate Exhibition, UM CAS Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

2014               No Big Heads, UAA Student Union Gallery, Anchorage, AK

2013               Salon d’Refuses, University of Miami CAS Gallery, Coral Gables, FL


Awards/Residencies
2023 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

2022               Ellies Creator Award, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
Oolite Home + Away, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

2021                LAB MFA, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
 
Lectures/Public Talks 

2023 Artist talk and workshop, LAB, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Draw: Point to Point Panel Discussion, moderated by Tomas Vu, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Ancestor Veneration: Workshop and Panel, Tropotrope, Miami, FL.
Museum Life: Careers in Arts Management, moderated by Dean Susan E. Cahan,
Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

2022               Material and Ritual as Alchemy, Artist discussion led by Dainy Tapia, founder of ArtSeen365, Miami, FL
Radical Pleasure Virtual Artist Talk I, moderated by Sheree L. Greer featuring Slam Anderson, Cathleen Dean,
Victoria Ravelo and Tiffany Vitale,
Spady Museum, Delray Beach, FL
Roundtable with Marie Vickles, Meghan Kent, and Participating Artists, Art and Culture Center / Hollywood, Hollywood, FL

2021                A Roundtable with Victoria Ravelo and Dr. Marvinn Dunn, Moderated by Darwin Rodriguez, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzHP6kxBu8M

Curatorial Projects
2021                Familiar Distances, Edge Zones, Miami, FL

Bibliography

2023 Herbein, Emily. “Tyler Alumni Host Panel in Museum Life and Arts Administration.” Tyler Blog, February 22, 2023.
Click here to read.
Boshier González , Rosa. “Uncanny Homes in Project Row Houses’ “Round 54: Southern Survey Biennial.” Glasstire,
February 7, 2023. Click here to read.

2022 Williams, Kaya. “Oolite Arts Residency Cultivates Encouragement, Experimentation at Anderson Ranch.”
Aspen Times, March 4, 2022. Click here to read.
de Lourdes Mariño Fernandez, Maria. “Victoria Ravelo.” Essay. In Intersections 2021, 118–23. Philadelphia, PA:
Tyler School of Art and Architecture, 2022. Available online here.

2021 Ariel, Edgar. "Seis Artistas Cubanos En 'Ánima III. La Casa Vacía'." Rialta, February 02, 2021. Click here to read.

2017 Catrice, Emily. "Victoria Ravelo." Saatchi Gallery Art Magazine, June 28, 2017. Click here to read.

2016 Brooke Frank. Flip Out: Open Up. Girls Club Collection. 2016. p 38.

Collections
Girls’ Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL