Artist Talk with Paul Ramírez Jonas

Hear artist Paul Ramírez Jonas discuss his monumental interactive sculpture — on view in Philadelphia at Cherry Street Pier from June 4 - September 27, 2026 — with the Association for Public Art’s Charlotte Cohen and Monument Lab’s Paul Farber.
ABOUT PAUL RAMÍREZ JONAS

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989). Over the past 30 years Paul Ramírez Jonas has sought to challenge the definitions of art and the public and to engineer active audience participation and exchange. He has been made public in galleries, institutions and urban spaces around the world. He is the Art Department Chair at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell.