Cripping the Galleries | Painting Disability Justice
Genevieve Ramos, Mask Off , 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Join artist Genevieve Ramos to create paintings that respond to the themes of feminism and activism in the exhibition From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard. Using disability justice as a framework, the afternoon forefronts conversation, reflection, and learning how to think with paint. All are welcome—no previous painting experience required. Access doulas—people who are trained to creatively support a range of access needs—will be on-site throughout the workshop to assist participants. Cripping the Galleries is a collaborative series between the Art Institute of Chicago, Bodies of Work , the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) , that features local artists activating museums through the lens of crip* culture and access. This summer, artist and educator Genevieve Ramos leads interactive workshops at our three institutions: Join Ramos at NMMA in the second half of July and the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday, August 22. * Crip as a noun is pejorative, reclaimed by disabled people who embrace it as an outsider identity with an edge. To crip or cripping as a verb means to expose oppressive systems of normalcy and to imagine a world otherwise.
About the Artist Genevieve Ramos (b. 1990) is a Mexican American queer painter, disability advocate, and cultural worker based in Chicago. Her vibrant paintings explore the intersections of feminism, disability justice, and identity, using bold color, figures, and symbolic imagery to tell stories of resilience and love that move us toward collective liberation. Ramos’s work draws from her lived experience as a disabled artist and survivor, transforming personal narrative into collective empowerment. Through series like Feminist Crip Paint Power and Sustaining Spirit, she reimagines the body as both vulnerable and powerful—rooted in community, memory, and transformation. Her body of work collectively envisions our…
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Join artist Genevieve Ramos to create paintings that respond to the themes of feminism and activism in the exhibition From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard. Using disability justice as a framework, the afternoon forefronts conversation, reflection, and learning how to think with paint. All are welcome—no previous painting experience required. Access doulas—people who are trained to creatively support a range of access needs—will be on-site throughout the workshop to assist participants. Cripping the Galleries is a collaborative series between the Art Institute of Chicago, Bodies of Work , the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) , that features local artists activating museums through the lens of crip* culture and access. This summer, artist and educator Genevieve Ramos leads interactive workshops at our three institutions: Join Ramos at NMMA in the second half of July and the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday, August 22. * Crip as a noun is pejorative, reclaimed by disabled people who embrace it as an outsider identity with an edge. To crip or cripping as a verb means to expose oppressive systems of normalcy and to imagine a world otherwise.
About the Artist Genevieve Ramos (b. 1990) is a Mexican American queer painter, disability advocate, and cultural worker based in Chicago. Her vibrant paintings explore the intersections of feminism, disability justice, and identity, using bold color, figures, and symbolic imagery to tell stories of resilience and love that move us toward collective liberation. Ramos’s work draws from her lived experience as a disabled artist and survivor, transforming personal narrative into collective empowerment. Through series like Feminist Crip Paint Power and Sustaining Spirit, she reimagines the body as both vulnerable and powerful—rooted in community, memory, and transformation. Her body of work collectively envisions our…
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