Ron Abram is an American artist, printmaker, and educator based in Columbus, Ohio. Working primarily in etching and photogravure, Abram explores ancestry, mythology, queer histories, masculinity, desire, and cultural memory. His work often brings together historical figures, imagined ancestors, literary characters, and mythological creatures, creating layered narratives that move between the personal and the historical. Drawing from photographic archives, popular imagery, literature, and art history, Abram uses the printed image to investigate histories that have been hidden, erased, or left deliberately ambiguous. His recent projects include Wrangler, a series of circular intaglio prints drawn from 1950s physique magazines and cowboy imagery, and Pasolini, a body of work that reimagines the mythology and classical imagery surrounding Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Abram is Professor of Visual Arts and Queer Studies at Denison University, where he teaches printmaking, drawing, and other studio courses. His artistic practice is closely connected to his teaching, emphasizing printmaking as both a traditional craft and a contemporary means of experimentation, collaboration, and storytelling. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in exhibitions focused on contemporary printmaking. In 2026, his large-scale copper etching La Minotauromàquia was selected for The Contemporary Print 2026, curated by Susana Temkin of El Museo del Barrio and presented at Link & Pin Gallery as part of PrintAustin. His recent research and studio projects have also been supported by artist residencies at Art Print Residence (Barcelona), Scuola Internazionale di Grafica (Venice), 

Aviário Studio (Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal) and Yaddo (Saratoga Springs). In December, he will be an artist-in-residence at Hello Print Friend Studios in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 

MEDEA/OEDIPUS REX

Working with Writer Drew Pisarra's original text, this two-sided artist book retells Medea and Oedipus Rex through unexpected images drawn from queer visual culture and the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Bringing together ancient mythology, performance, sexuality, and found imagery, the book creates a conversation between the past and the present.

Pasolini wrote, “I am a force of the Past. / My love lies only in tradition.” The quote feels central to this work, where old stories are pulled from the past and given new bodies, identities, and meanings. Printed matter becomes part of that process—a way of collecting, preserving, and recontextualizing images and stories that might otherwise disappear.

The book itself becomes a kind of archive, bringing together fragments of different histories and allowing them to collide, overlap, and take on new meanings. At its core, the work is about how stories, images, and identities are continually performed, remembered, transformed, and reimagined.

In the future, Im looking forward to collaborating more with Creased Press, including a book of my etching and photogravure work.