Bio
Flora Ramirez-Bustamante was born in Málaga, Spain. She graduated from the Department of Linguistics at Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, where she later earned a Ph.D. in General Linguistics and Spanish Grammar. She spent several years in Athens, Greece, on a scholarship, studying the moder Greek language and literature. She moved to the Seattle area in 2001. At that time, she began painting. Largely self-taught, he gradually made painting her career. She joined Seattle Shift Gallery in 2022.
Ramirez-Bustamante’s work is included in private collections, and she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Seattle, Portland, and Hilo, Hawaii. She lives with her family in Stanwood, Washington. She creates large- and small-scale paintings that move between figuration and abstraction, on both canvas and paper. In recent years, she has explored still-life imagery in a range of formats. Her three-dimensional works in wood, clay and papier-mâché, as well as her wall installations, are also an important part of her practice.
Flora Ramirez-Bustamante’s first notable exhibition was in the 2018 group exhibition Painters Who Fucking Know How to Paint at CoCA – Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, WA. See the Seattle Times link https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/cocas-group-show-demonstrates-the-continued-power-of-painting/.
Her most recent solo exhibitions include Figures (2023), I Don’t Believe in Objects (2024), and Red and Objects of the Same Kind (2025), all at Shift Gallery in Seattle, WA. She also exhibited at the Seattle Art Fair in 2023 and 2025. Her most recent exhibition took place in May 2026 at Shift Gallery, Seattle, titled Always—and—Continuously, where she exhibited alongside Anna Macrae. In July 2026 she also exhibited at the Kirkland Arts Center (Kirkland, WA) with Anna Macrae.
Artist Statement
Flora Ramirez-Bustamante's paintings blend elements of the modernist repertoire with aspects of everyday life. Using still-lifes and portraits as entry points, she depicts cultural symbols, her connection to art history and/or domestic objects in a new context. She is interested in the act of painting itself and how the objects and the figures are represented on the canvas, extracted from the canvas or inserted as fragments in a new whole.
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