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JAILI RAMIREZ

Carmel NY UNITED STATES

I am a New York-based painter and therapist whose work explores identity, memory, and survival through vibrant figuration. Raised between Puerto Rico and the mainland United States, I hold a BFA from FIT and an MA from NYU.

My work is shaped by questions of womanhood, personal history, family, and cultural inheritance. Through painting, I reclaim spiritual and familial iconography, centering the stories of women and girls who have been silenced, overlooked, misnamed, or misunderstood.

Painting, memory, identity, and healing sit at the centre of my work. As both an artist and therapist, I am interested in the ways personal and collective histories are carried through the body, family, culture, and image.

I use vibrant figuration to create works that feel intimate, symbolic, and emotionally charged. Spiritual and familial iconography are central to my process, allowing me to return to inherited images, rituals, and histories while reshaping them through my own visual language.

My work often begins with the stories of women and girls whose experiences have been dismissed, silenced, or misunderstood. Through painting, I create space for those stories to be seen, held, and reimagined. My process is an act of reclamation, using color, figure, and symbolism to explore survival, visibility, and the complexity of identity.

ARTWORKS

La Gran Villana (2025)

JAILI RAMIREZ

mixed media on canvas
18H x 24W in (45 x 60 cm)
US $600

“Drawing from my Puerto Rican and Filipina identity, as well as personal and inherited histories, I reimagine women as witnesses, storytellers, and authors of their own narratives. These figures exist with presence and intention, holding space rather than occupying it passively. They challenge the viewer to question the stories that have been fed about women that have been victimized, villainized or blamed when not fitting in their designated box.

La Gran Villana was created as a response to the narrative that seems to accompany women that own their space and all that entails. Their sensuality, intelligence, defiance and beauty. She does not shrink at the eyes of the viewer but rather, she dares them to see her.”

Revisiting Lilith (2025) SOLD

JAILI RAMIREZ

mixed media on canvas
18H x 24W in (45 x 60 cm)
US $500

“Drawing from my Puerto Rican and Filipina identity, as well as personal and inherited histories, I reimagine women as witnesses, storytellers, and authors of their own narratives. These figures exist with presence and intention, holding space rather than occupying it passively. They challenge the viewer to question the stories that have been fed about women that have been victimized, villainized or blamed when not fitting in their designated box.

Revisiting Lilith was created as a reflection and rejection of subservience. In Jewish myth, Lilith is Adam’s first wife who rejected subservience and demanded equality. When not given, she left. Traditionally she is portrayed as the mother of demons, her decision a catalyst for evil. However, this piece questions who portrayed her as such and with what intention. It sees Lilith, not as a cautionary tale but rather an individual unapologetic in their desire to pursue agency and equality.”

EXHIBITIONS

Code Girl

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JAILI RAMIREZ

Carmel NY UNITED STATES

ARTWORKS

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