Lisandra Ramirez

Overview

Ramírez works with sculpture, photography, 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 Soviet-era toys to comment on the nature of mass manufacturing and how it causes isolation and loneliness in a society. Ramirez's imagery allows her to investigate different narrative forms. The aesthetic of her work achieves an outwardly naive quality that maintains differing questions about the role of the individual as a social being and the undertone of various historical processes.

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Biography

Lisandra Ramírez was born in Havana in 1986. She graduated from the San Alejandro Art Academy of Havana in 2007 and the Superior Art Institute of Havana (ISA) in 2012.

Also, from 2006 to 2008, she was part of La Catedra de Arte Conducta organized by renowned Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. 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 (NYU), United States.

Ramírez has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad. Her work is in institutional and private collections throughout the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Her recognitions and awards include the First Prize at "Post-it. Cuban Contemporary Art" (2013), the First Prize for the poster design in commemoration of the International Day against Violence held by Oscar Arnulfo Romero NGO (2008), and the First Prize at the 4th Visual Arts Salon of the Hermanos Saiz Association (2005).

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