SANDRA RAMOS
Sandra Ramos is a Cuban contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, video and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work. She 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. Ramos currently lives in Miami, Florida, and serves as an artist in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex and a contracted exhibition artist at The Fountain Head Art Studios. She is also a renowned curator in Cuba, and she won a national award for her curatorial work on the exhibition La Huella Múltiple (Multiple Fingerprint) in 2003 from the Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plásticas (CNAP) in Havana, Cuba.
Artist Statement
“Through my work I try to express the significance of the world to which I belong. My work is a reflection about the specific reality of my country. Usually I use the self-portrait as a way to meditate about the fact of belonging to an island where the collective history and the personal destiny are in very tight relation. Thus the fundamental motif of my work is the daily recovery of individual and social memory as it relates to every day struggles. Also, my work is highly tied to lost utopian feelings and frustrations with the socialism-emancipating ideal, which are states of mind and characteristics of the actual society.”
