Ricardo Rendón (Mexico City, Mexico, 1970) lives and works in Mexico City. His practice brings together industrial and artisanal processes to investigate the dematerialization of objects and the spatial concerns of abstract sculptural practice in contemporary art.
In his three-dimensional works, Rendón works with a wide range of materials (felt, plaster, cement, wood, paper and metal), employing techniques such as cutting, perforation, folding and casting. His research investigates the transformation of everyday objects and materials into sensory fields in which sculpture emerges as a processual event: the void, the loss of mass and the hand's intervention in industrial surfaces appear as structural elements of the work.
Rendón's work also includes sound performances, such as Inestable Sonoro (Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, 2021, curated by Willy Kautz). His work is featured in key publications on contemporary Latin American abstraction, including the book REMAINS – TOMORROW. Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction (Hatje Cantz) and the catalogue MANUAL DE OPERACION (Vainilla Planifolia, 2011).
His solo exhibitions include Memória Possível, at Zipper Galeria (São Paulo, 2016); Vazio Contido, at Zipper Galeria (São Paulo, 2013); and Bosque Desnudo, at the Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, 2013).
He has participated in group exhibitions including Something from Everything, at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (2025); Botánica de Asfalto, at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City, 2025); Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context, at the Phoenix Art Museum (2020); Modos de Oír, at the Museo Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City, 2019); Monochrome Undone (Sayago & Pardon Collection, Los Angeles, 2015); MEXICO: EXPECTED/UNEXPECTED Collection Coppel, which toured the Maison Rouge (Paris, 2008), BPS22 (Charleroi, Belgium, 2010), MCASD (San Diego, 2011) and the Katzen Art Center / American University (Washington, 2012); and Come Closer, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2005).
He has also participated in the XIV Bienal Rufino Tamayo (Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2008), the Yucatán Fine Arts Biennial (Mérida, 2002), the Videobrasil Art Festival (São Paulo, 2003) and the International Biennial of Photography 99 (Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, 1999).
He has received the National System of Creators Grant from FONCA (2006, 2010 and 2016), the CIFO Production Grant (Miami, 2009), the Bienal FEMSA 2007 award (Monterrey) and the JUMEX Production Grant (2006 and 2010).
His work is held in the collections of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami), Bank of America (New York), J.P. Morgan Chase (New York), the Phoenix Art Museum, JUMEX (Mexico City), MUAC / UNAM, MAM (Mexico City), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, MAM-SP, Fondation Daniel Langlois (Quebec) and Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango / Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (Bogotá).