Ricardo De Lima

Ricardo De Lima is a Colombo-Venezuelan artist and abolitionist based in Chicago who works across sculpture, sound, and expanded cinema. His practice reworks materials and objects to expose how authority operates. He was an Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Spring 2026. He won the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize from the ICA Boston and has held residencies at MASS MoCA and Vermont Studio Center. He taught in the Sculpture Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. He earned an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025. He co-founded Pico Picante, a diasporic nightlife and sound system platform in Boston and New York, and Spectacle, a space for experimental film and sound.