ARC Magazine writes about Cuban artist Sandra Ramos, who will represent her country at the 55th Venice Biennale. Her work, La Perversión de lo clásico: Anarquía de los relatos, curated by Jorge Fernández and Giacomo Zaza, opens at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Palazzo Reale, located at Piazza San Marco 17. The opening reception will be held on Friday May 31, 2013 at 6:00pm. [Ramos’ work is featured in the upcoming issue of ARC Magazine due out next week.]

Sandra Ramos has exhibited extensively for over twenty years at venues which include Museo Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT; Ringling Museum, Tampa, FL; Miura Museum of Art, Matsuyama, Japan and Urasoe Museum, Okinawa, Japan. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, among many others world wide.

Ramos is teacher at The Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba, and a curator since 1996 of Cuban contemporary art exhibitions. She has presented at conferences and workshops in international institutions including: National Gallery of Art in Washington DC; The University of Havana; L’ Ecole deux Beaux Arts, Paris; Barbican Center in London; The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Lowe Art Museum, Florida University, Miami and Fuchu Art Museum,Tokyo, Japan. In September 2012 she had her first solo exhibition in New York City at Accola Griefen Gallery.

For more information, see http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/05/sandra-ramos-represents-cuba-at-the-55th-venice-biennale/ and http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=1666c140e0615207f19e19166&id=d037bb3776&e=476d7c9478