Sandra Ramos (b. 1969, Havana, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, installation and video art.
About the Artist in English
Sandra Ramos (b. 1969, Havana, Cuba) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, installation and video art. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2021 and is currently a visiting professor at Florida International University.
Her work has been featured in major international exhibitions, including the Cuban Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) and multiple editions of the Havana Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Entropydoscopes at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (2023), and Both Sides Now at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (2022). Ramos’s work has also been included in group exhibitions, such as Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2025), What We Leave Behind at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon (2023), and You Know Who You Are: Recent Acquisitions of Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (2022).
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Sandra Ramos (n. 1969, La Habana) es una artista multidisciplinar cuya práctica incluye pintura, dibujo, instalación y videoarte. Se graduó con un M.I.A. de Instituto de Arte de San Francisco (2021) y es profesora visitante en la Universidad Internacional de Florida.
Su trabajo ha figurado en exposiciones importantes como la Bienal de La Habana (varias ediciones), el Pabellón Cubano en la 55ª Bienal de Venecia (2013). Exhibiciones individuales incluyen Entropydoscopes en el Museo de Arte Lowe, Universidad de Miami (2023), y Both Sides Now en el Centro David Rockefeller de Estudios Latinoamericanos, de Universidad de Harvard (2022). La obra de Ramos también ha sido incluida en exposiciones colectivas, como Navegando las olas: fotografía cubana contemporánea en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Houston (2025), What We Leave Behind en el Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art de la Universidad de Oregón (2023) y You Know Who You Are: Recientes adquisiciones de arte cubano de la colección Jorge M. Pérez (2022).
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“Under the Spell of the Palm Tree” Q&A
You asked, we answered! The Harn Museum kindly asked visitors to submit questions about its current Cuban art exhibition. The curators behind Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: The Rice Collection of Cuban Art have received your questions and are ready to continue the conversation. The exhibition features artworks...
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Unconventional Collaborations
It isn’t unusual for artists to build upon content of the past, whether they are imitating it, criticizing it, or tearing it down. (I can’t help but think of how Robert Rauschenberg purchased a drawing by Willem de Kooning and then erased it! It was titled Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953.) As...
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Artist Conversation: Sandra Ramos
Artist Sandra Ramos discusses her work on view in the exhibition “Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: The Rice Collection of Cuban Art.” Ramos’ work mines the deep feelings of longing experienced by Cuban families impacted by the crisis of mass emigration at the beginning of the 1990s.