Diego Ramírez is known for his expanded practice across art, writing and facilitation.
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He is currently undertaking a PhD at Monash University, using auto-fiction set in the time period 2018-2023, to explore arts practice through the administrative language of bureaucratised artist led contexts, from a Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) perspective.

After a sustained period of experimentation with otherness and institutional critique, he formalised his interests to look at the duplicity of language. Located within contemporary systems, Ramírez currently employs art to explore various administrative and linguistic devices, instigated in conscientious gallery management. Ramírez is using the framework of a 'performance appraisal' to revise past work, implying reviews are measuring, and valorising his ouvre. His aim is to explore how these frameworks interact with artistic practice by modulating relationships between word, process and image.

In the past, he has embraced the vampire to parody cultural diversity, hijacked Marian apparitions with a dark orb, and observed how devils represent ethnic stereotypes in Hollywood.

He often refines his ideas in writing, where he articulates critiques on the managerialism, performativity and moralisation of culture that feed back into his art. In recent years, Ramírez’ writing has become increasingly performative, often in dialogue with the virtue economy of the art world. This allows him to explore his interest in language within the interrelated areas of creative non-fiction, autofiction and autotheory.

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