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Lisandra Ramírez

Lisandra Ramírez was born in Havana in 1986. She graduated from San Alejandro Art Academy of Havana in 2007, and the Superior Art Institute of Havana (ISA) in 2012, concluding her formal cuban education. She then studied abroad in Spain and the United States. In Spain she studied bronze casting techniques and continued with a course at the Tisch School of the Arts at the University of New York (NY), United States.

Ramírez works with sculpture, video projection installations, and other mediums. Through her pop art-like works she critiques social and historical issues. She is known for taking aesthetic inspiration from mass-produced Japanese cartoons and animated figures to comment on the nature of mass manufacturing, and how it causes isolation and loneliness one feels in such a society.

Cuban art historian Gabriela García Azcuy explains how in Ramírez’s early work,

“...appropriation and quotation of the infantile universe was already an inherent feature of her creation. Without indulging in a puerile hedonism, she appealed to an effective, universal method of dialogue that would allow her to address dissimilar topics, generally of an anthropological nature.”

Career

Lisandra Ramírez investigates historical imagery, using stereotypes to talk about historical social problems that continue even today. The imagery of her work allows her to investigate different narrative forms. They achieve an outwardly naive quality that maintain differing questions about the role of the individual as a social being and the undertone of various historical processes in this same tendency. A number of her works are video installations that highlight the dialogue that is made between the sculpture and the projection. Others projects are the sculpture alone, which makes them acquire all the protagonism.

Ramírez has participated in many collective and solo exhibitions in the Cuba and abroad. Recently, she has been collaborating with Studio 7 y 60 where she regularly shows her work alongside other female artists. Ramírez has participated in many collective and solo exhibitions in the Cuba and abroad.

Solo Exhibitions

Logo Quiz, Galiano Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2014), Collection, Gallery 23 and 12, Havana, Cuba (2011), View in Plant, Pablo de la Torriente Brau Center, Havana, Cuba (2009), and Horizontal Projection, San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2005).

Collective Exhibitions

“One Race, The Human Race”,The Studios of Key West, Key West (FL), United States (2017), “Pop goes the world”, Salt Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach (CA), United States (2016), “In Pink”, Collage Habana Gallery, Havana, Cuba (2014), Post-it, Galiano Gallery, Havana (2014), “In Bad Manner”, Collateral to the Eleventh Biennial of Havana (2012), The Gold of Cuba, London Print Studio, London, United Kingdom (2011), “Cuban Art in Daejeon”, Daejeon Museum, Daejeon, South Korea (2011), “Tropic Stoic”, University Museum of Sciences and Art, Mexico City, Mexico (2010), The end of the bullet, a decade of Cuban art, Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba (2010), La Habana Digital, Fabrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (2009), Tisch School of the Arts New York University, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana, Cuba (2008), and XY, National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuban Art Building, Havana, Cuba (2008).

Recognitions/Awards

Lisandra Ramirez has received many various prizes and recognitions over the past several years, such as 1st prize for ‘Post-it’ at the Cuban Contemporary Art Fair of the Galiano Gallery in Havana, Cuba (2013). Others include; 1st Prize for the poster of the International Day against Violence for the Oscar Arnulfo Romero NGO in Havana, Cuba (2008), Tish School of the Arts New York University, with the collaboration of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (2009), Sens Lab Workshop. Havana, Cuba. Teachers: Andrea Sunder Plassman (Germany), Dagmar Wohler (Germany), Frency Fernández (Cuba), Antonio Correa Iglesias (Cuba) (2009), First Place of Graphic Design, Poster of the International Day against Violence, ONGD Oscar Arnulfo Romero (2008), Course in Mural Painting Technique, Office of the Historian, Havana, Cuba (2008), Course of Conduct Art, Pedagogical Project of Tania Bruguera (2006-2008), Course of Contemporary Spanish Art, taught by Manuel García at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba (2006), Workshop taught by Pedro Billalba (2005), First Prize, 4th Visual Arts Hall Waldo Luis Rodríguez, Hermanos Saiz Association (2005) References

"Lisandra Ramírez." NG Art Gallery Panamá - La Habana. January 20, 2017. Accessed April 10, 2018. http://www.ngartgallery.com/artistas/lisandra-ramirez/.

"Lisandra Ramírez." Cuba Art Tours. Accessed April 10, 2018. http://www.cubartours.com/artists/lisandra-ramirez.

"The-Merger, Mabel Poblet and Lisandra Ramirez | KONK Life." Accessed April 10, 2018. http://konknet.com/the-merger-mabel-poblet-and-lisandra-ramirez/

"Saltfineart | LISANDRA RAMIREZ & MABEL POBLET: POP GOES ..." Accessed April 10, 2018. https://saltfineart.net/salt-fine-art-lisandra-ramirez-mabel-poblet-pop-goes-the-world/

"Exhibition Close-Up: (Art)xiomas in Washington, DC." Cuban Art News. Accessed April 10, 2018. http://www.cubanartnews.org/news/exhibition-close-up-artxiomas-in-washington-dc/5397.

"LISANDRA RAMÍREZ BERNAL." CdeCuba Magazine - Revista Arte Cubano. Accessed April 10, 2018. http://cdecuba.org/lisandra-ramirez-bernal/.