Ron Abram is an artist making prints, primarily etchings, for 42 years. Situated at the intersection of personal symbolism and popular collective iconography and myth, the themes of his work speak to the residue of the memory, repression, homophobia and queer aesthetics. His work has been exhibited throughout the USA and abroad, and in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Mint Museum and Moravian College. He has been an artist in residence at Temple University Rome in Rome Italy, In Cahoots Residency in Petaluma, CA, Art Print Residence in Barcelona, Spain, Anchor Graphics in Chicago, Illinois; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California; Flying Horse Editions in Orlando Florida; Temple University Japan in Tokyo Japan, Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden Germany and Taktkunstprojektraum in Berlin Germany. He has worked collaboratively as a designer on theatrical, dance and music productions. His work as a curator extents themes found in his work including exhibitions and portfolios such as Finlandia: Prints and Music Inspired by Tom of Finland (2011), Songs in Reverse: Ten Prints by Eight Gay Men (2010), and Bizarro World: The Parallel Universes of Comics and Fine Arts (2000). He received his BFA from the University of Central Florida and his MFA from Tyler School of Art & Architecture of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Abram has taught printmaking and drawing since 1989, teaching at Rutgers, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Abington Art Center and is Full Professor of Studio Art and Queer Studies at Denison University in Granville, Ohio where he has taught since 1995.
Additional Links:
Hello, Print Friend Interview with Miranda Metcalf, 2023
Ron Abram Video Interview: About Ourselves, Inside Ourselves Exhibition
https://vimeo.com/channels/marchenbrunnen
Tape Modern No. 25 (Berlin 2012 Group Exhibition Film)