Ricder Ricardo is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates migration, memory, and the ongoing negotiation of identity shaped by displacement. Born in rural Havana and relocating to the United States at the age of fifteen, his work emerges from lived diasporic experience, inhabiting a mutable in-between space where belonging is continually redefined.
Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and installation, Ricder constructs figurative and surreal environments that reflect the psychological and political conditions of migration. His visual work is often contextualized by his own written poems, which draw from personal diasporic experience and serve as parallel sites of reflection and potentiality. Influenced by thinkers who engage borderlands, futurity, and hybrid identity, his practice reimagines cultural memory as a generative space shaped by fragmentation, resilience, and becoming.
Ricder is currently an MFA candidate in Studio Art at Florida State University and holds a BFA from the University of North Florida. His work has been exhibited nationally at venues including Coronado C3 Gallery and The Bridge Art Foundation in San Andreas, California, as well as Hera Gallery in Rhode Island. His work has also been featured in publications such as RADX Magazine, Talon Review, and JAX TDY. Through a multidisciplinary and research-driven approach, Ricder positions displacement not as rupture alone, but as a site of potential—one capable of producing new cultural imaginaries and modes of belonging.
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RICDER RICARDO
8321 Lawfin St S. Jacksonville, FL 32211
ricderricardo@outlook.com | ricderricardo.com
8321 Lawfin St S. Jacksonville, FL 32211
ricderricardo@outlook.com | ricderricardo.com
Education
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tallahassee, FLMaster of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art, in progress
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA, Jacksonville, FL
BFA in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking; Minor in Photography, 2019R
Residencies and Study Abroad
2023 – Transitory Permanence: Moving the Margins
The Corner Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – UNF Italy: Art, Culture, and History
University of North Florida, Department of Art and Design, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2023 – Transitory Permanence, The Corner Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2020 – Encounter, Florida State College Wilson Center for the Arts Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2019 – Ster-e-o-type, Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville, FL
2017 – Essence of Mine, University of North Florida LGBTQ+ Center, Jacksonville, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 – Pathways (co-curated with Barbara Hionides), Untitled Art Space, Jacksonville, FL
2025 – A Foot Forward: Art Knows No Boundaries, San Diego, CA
2024 – Democracy Under Siege, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2023 – Just Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2023 – Just Space, Yellow House Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2023 – Beyond Borders, San Gabriel, CA
2022 – FIFTY: An Alumni Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2021 – Tenderfoot, Florida Mining, Jacksonville, FL
2021 – Age of Cognizance, Yellow House, Jacksonville, FL
2020 – ARTSee and Shop, Markets at the Town Center & Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville,FL
2020 – ArtFields 2020 Competition, TRAX Visual Art Center, Lake City, SC
2019 – Preserve Show, University of North Florida Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2019 – Drawing and Painting Guild Exhibition, World Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, FL
2019 – Fine Arts Senior Exhibition, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2019 – Losing Control, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, GA
2018 – Art and Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Art and Politics, University of North Florida Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – University of North Florida Print Guild Exhibition, Chamblin's Uptown, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Faces in Separate Spaces, Beer 30, San Marco Blvd, Jacksonville, FL2018 – Un Celebrazione, University of North Florida Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Unconventional Flexures Art Exhibition, World Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, FL
2018 – The Laramie Project: You're Not Alone, The 5 and Dime Theatre Co., Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Table Top Printmaking Exhibition, St. John's University, Rome, Italy
2017 – Student Annual Art Exhibit, University of North Florida Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL
2017 – Align, Jewish Community Alliance, Vandroff Art Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2016 – Figure, CoRK Art District, Jacksonville, FL
2016 – Preserve, University of North Florida Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL
Awards and Grants
2023 – Honorable Mention, ISRER End-of-Year Showcase, Jacksonville, FL
2019 – Second Place, Preserve Showcase, University of North Florida Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Best Poster Presentation, Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship,
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Second Place, Preserve Showcase, University of North Florida Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2017 – Best in Show, Student Annual Art Exhibit, University of North Florida Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL
Conferences
2018 – Florida Undergraduate Research Conference, Eastern Florida State College, Melbourne, FL
2018 – Exchange: Conversations for the Curious, TEDx, Florida Theatre, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Digital Humanities Initiative, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2018 – Sex Week Symposium, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2017 – Florida Undergraduate Research Conference, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2017 – Sigma Tau Delta Spring Showcase, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2017 – Showcase of Ospreys Advancement in Research & Scholarship, University of North Florida,
Jacksonville, FL
2017 – Southern Graphics Conference International, Atlanta, GA
Publications
2023 – Transitory Permanence, Arbus Magazine
2021 – JAX TDY: In Age of Cognizance: Three Jacksonville Artists Explore Their Individual Identities Through Collective Consciousness, Matthew Shaw
2021 – RADX Magazine Vol. 6: Perseverance, Nicole Radacz
2020 – Talon Review Vol. 2, Issue 3: Rejuvenescence, Giancarlo Labor
2020 – House Call: Artists Series, Yellow House, Hope McMath
2019 – RADX Magazine Vol. 1: Inspire, Nicole Radacz