Ricardo De Lima

Ricardo De Lima is a Colombo-Venezuelan artist and abolitionist working across sculpture, sound, and expanded cinema to expose the systems of power built into everyday life. His work reshapes and misuses materials and objects to show how authority performs and where it breaks, drawing on a wide base of technical, embodied, and cultural knowledge. He has exhibited and performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Comfort Station Chicago, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and the Havana Biennial. He co-founded Pico Picante, a long-running platform for diasporic nightlife and sound system culture in Boston and New York, and Spectacle, a space for experimental film and sound. De Lima won the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize from the ICA Boston and has held residencies at MASS MoCA and the Vermont Studio Center. He taught in the Sculpture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design and earned his MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025, where he received the Municipal Art League Fellowship and was nominated for the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Based in Chicago, he presents new work in Hyde Park Art Center's Ground Floor 2026.