Gaby Hurtado-Ramos
Artist Bio
Gaby Hurtado-Ramos is an artist and educator making drawings, prints, zines, and multimedia work around the cracks and glimmers of queer social life. Their publishing practice is called Rear-View Press, a solo and collaborative risograph printing endeavor making zines loosely around themes of nostalgia. They have completed residencies at Penland School of Craft (North Carolina), The Printing Museum (Houston, TX), Dirt Palace (Providence, RI), and The Wedding Cake House (Providence, RI). As a resident artist in 2021 at The Printing Museum, they published a zine documenting lesbian bar history in Houston. From 2023-2025 they served on the board of Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI). They have taught courses and workshops nationwide, including at The Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), the Tennessee Art Education Association, the University of Tennessee, and Art League Houston. Gaby’s work has been shared and exhibited in print and zine expositions, academic archives, and galleries. Their illustration work has been commissioned by ProPublica, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Tucson Jewish Museum. Gaby received their BA from Oberlin College and their MFA from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
