20 Facts About Sandra Ramos

Sandra Ramos was born on Oct, 1969 and is a Cuban artist, a contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, video and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work.

Sandra Ramos is known for works featuring her character of the Cuban Pioneer girl, who is composed of a self-portrait and an appropriated portion of an old illustration from 1895' L' illustration French magazine.

Sandra Ramos is a renowned curator in Cuba, and she won a national award for her curatorial work on the exhibition La Huella Multiple in 2003 from the Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plasticas in Havana, Cuba.

Sandra Ramos Lorenzo was born in Havana, Cuba to two native Cuban parents, and she now lives in Miami, Florida.

Sandra Ramos was heavily inspired to become an artist by the painter Gloria Gonzalez, the grandmother of Ramos's close childhood friend, curator Wendy Navarro.

Sandra Ramos has two siblings living in their family home in Miramar, Havana.

From 1984 to 1988, Sandra Ramos studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", which was attended by Camilo Cienfuegos and Jose Marti, and from 1988 to 1993 attaining a degree in printmaking at the Superior Institute of Art in Havana where she was in contact with artists including Jose Bedia, Leandro Soto and Carlos Cardenas.

Sandra Ramos is working as an art professor at Florida International University.

In 1993 Sandra Ramos became a teacher at the ISA - Higher Institute of Art, a job that she held up until 1998.

Sandra Ramos imparted conferences and workshops in international institutions and universities such as the CUNY Graduate Center of New York, the Wake Forest University of Winston-Salem, the George Mason University of Fairface County, the University of Havana, the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, the Barbican Center of London, the School of the Fine Arts Museum in Boston, Lowe Art Museum and University of Florida in Miami, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo.

Sandra Ramos' attempted to enter the United States in 2004 for her first solo gallery exhibition in the US at the Fraser Gallery Georgetown.

In February 2014, Sandra Ramos moved to Miami, Florida to work as an artist in residence at The Fountain Head Art Studios, and, in September 2016, she began a second residency at the Bakehouse Art Complex located in Miami, both of which she still maintains.

In 2014, Sandra Lorenzo Ramos Studios released the book Sandra Ramos: bridging the past, present and future, which was the first major English publication about Ramos, authored by the artist with contribution from Diane W Camber, Jack Rasmussen, Hamlet Fernandez, Holly Block, American University, and the Bass Museum of Art.

Sandra Ramos' work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Pan American Art Projects in Miami, the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, the Phoenix Art Museum, The David Rockefeller Center at Harvard University, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Accola Griefen Gallery in New York City.

Sandra Ramos' works have been incorporated into the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Perez Art Museum Miami, and the Fuchu Art Museum in Japan.

Sandra Ramos' work is a part of the Rodriguez Collection at the Kendall Art Center in Miami, Florida.

Sandra Ramos uses a variety of mediums for her art, which include, paintings, etchings, collage, installations, and digital animation.

Sandra Ramos first learned engraving techniques at her high school and still uses some of the same techniques.

Sandra Ramos has been explicit about how her art, not only intersects with social, political, and global issues, but is made with intent of making a critical statement about the future.

Sandra Ramos's work lends itself to be a narrative that plays on the adventures of Alice in Wonderland, but instead her character is a childlike explorer of Cuba under the Fidel Castro regime.