Sandra Ramos Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1969 -

Sandra Ramos (born January 10, 1969) is a Cuban contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work. She is best known for works featuring her character Ariadne, who is composed of a self-portrait and an appropriated portion of an illustration from Alice in Wonderland. Ramos currently lives in Miami, Florida, and serves as an artist in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex and a contracted exhibition artist at The Foutain Head Art Studios. She is also a renowned curator in Cuba, and she won a national award for her curatorial work on the exhibition Le Huella Múltiple (Multiple Fingerprint) in 2003 from the Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas (CNAP) in Havana, Cuba.

Sandra Ramos Lorenzo was born in Havana, Cuba, to two native Cuban parents, and she now lives in Miami, Florida. Although Ramos doesn't come from a family of artists, she was nonetheless still heavily inspired by painter Gloria González who was a close friend of Ramos’ grandmother. Ramos has two siblings still living in their family home in Miramar, Havana. Her sister Liane, who has degrees in curatorial work, gives tour of Ramos’ Havana studio and runs small xylographic workshops as her assistant. Ramos' brother Ruben also helps to run printmaking workshop at the studio.[1]

From 1984 to 1988, Ramos pursued a high school diploma at the prestigious Elemental School of Visual Arts 20 de Octubre at San Alejandro Art Academy, which was famously attended by Fidel Castro and Jose Martí, and from 1988 to 1993 she worked on attaining a degree in printmaking the Superior Institute of Art in Havana where she was instructed by notable artists like José Bedia, Leandro Soto and Carlos Cárdenas, among others.[