Sandra Ramos Lorenzo

Born: 1969, Havana (Cuba)

Cuban artist. Born in Havana (1969). Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1990). Docent of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana (1987–96). Decorated by the Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba for her contribution to national culture (1991). Prize-winner at the Salón Nacional de Grabado Cuba (1993). Awarded the La Joven Estampa prize from Casa de Las Américas, Cuba. Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in New York and Rome (1998). Worked at L’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris. Fellow of the Barbican Centre, London (1999). Lives and works in Havana. Contributed to Grabados latinoamericanos at the Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, Venezuela (1991), VII International Print Biennale in Jyväskylä, Finland (1993), V Havana Biennale (1994), Cruzar las aguas at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana (1995), New Art from Cuba at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, Cumbria (1995), Mundo soñado at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana and the Casa de América in Madrid (1996), Territorios utópicos at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery (British Columbia University) Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver (1997), Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island at the Arizona State University Museum in Tempe and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (1998), Trabajando pa´l ingle at the Barbican Centre in London (1998), Sandra Ramos y Elsa Mora at Espacio 21 in Tokyo (1998), Art Auction at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Los Angeles (2000) and one-woman shows Con mi cruz a cuestas at the Galería Nina Menocal in México DF (1993) and Criaturas de la isla II at the Galería Nina Menocal in México DF (1995).

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