He was described as the "breakout star" or highlight of the 2019 Whitney Biennial by multiple reviewers, with the "New York Times" writing that his sculpture "Maria Maria" exemplified the pieces in the Biennial that "reassert the power of spirituality." Critic Holland Cotter elaborated on the sculpture, explaining how Lind-Ramos "creat[ed] from wood, beads, coconuts and a blue FEMA tarp, a figure that is both the Virgin Mary and personification of the hurricane that devastated the island in 2017 ... the piece looks presidingly majestic."