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Speakers: Sandra Ramos, Artist; Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art , Harvard Art Museums
A reception and tour of Both Sides Now: Sandra Ramos, will be held by the artist and Mary Schneider Enriquez, Harvard Art Museums Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, at DRCLAS. Cuban born, U.S. based artist, Sandra Ramos, through wit and humor poses a cultural critique of Cuban Republican history while exposing the failings of democratic systems today when placed against totalitarian regimes in her exhibition on view until April 5, 2023.
The tour will be preceded by a reception at 5:15pm and followed by a conversation held at the Harvard Art Museums. Sandra Ramos and Mary Schneider Enriquez will discuss the artist’s practice from when she began in the 1980’s in Cuba, and the fall of the Berlin wall and economic scarcities that followed, up through her move to the United States where, as an immigrant, she presents a sharply clarifying lens on both cultures and the tensions between them.
Sandra Ramos was born in 1969 in Havana and lives and work in Miami, Florida. In 1993 she graduated as a BFA from the Higher Institute of Arts ISA in Havana. Ramos has exhibited extensively for over thirty years, among her recent solo exhibitions are: “Déjà vu” Panamerican Art Projects Gallery, Miami (2018); “Watertight: Sandra Ramos” Arizona State University Museum, (2016); “Bridging the Past, Present and Future: Recent Works by Sandra Ramos” American University Museum, Washington DC (2014); "Puentes: entre lejanías y cercanías llevadas a cabo" XI Havana Biennial. The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana Cuba (2012.) Ramos' work has been included in collective exhibitions such as: “Personal Space. Self Portraits on Paper” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2020.) "School Photos and their Afterlives" Hood Museum of Art. Dartmouth College, NH (2020.) "Deconstruction: A Reordering of Life, Politics, and Art. The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU. Miami. (2018.) “On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection” PAMM Museum. Miami (2018.) “Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis & The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2017.) "Wild Noise" Bronx Museum. NY. (2017.) She has also participated in the Venice Biennial (2013) & Havana Biennial (1994) and (2012). Ramos received the following Art Residences: Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion Artist in Residency (2017); The Studios of Key West Residency (2016); The Fountainhead Art Residency Miami (2011); Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Helen Frankenthaler Norwalk (2010); Fuchu Art Museum. Tokyo (2003); Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Art Residency (2002); Barbican Center Art Residency in London (1999.) Ramos' work is in the collections of the MOMA NY, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The San Diego Museum of Art, PAMM, National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, The Bronx Museum, ASU Art Museum, 21c Museum Hotel Collection, The Rubin Museum of Art NY, The Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Vienna, and the Fuchu Art Museum Tokyo.
Mary Schneider Enriquez is the Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums. In 2020-21 she curated Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Portrait, and she was Co-Curator in 2019-20 of the museums exhibition, Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary art. In 2016-17, she curated the Harvard Art Museums exhibitions Doris Salcedo: the Materiality of Mourning and wrote the accompanying catalogue published by Yale Univ. Press, Fernando Bryce: The Book of Needs in 2018 and co-curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play the same year. Previously, she curated the 2014-15 exhibition Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals and directed the commission and installation of the sculpture by artist Carlos Amorales for the museums central courtyard. As an independent curator Mary co-curated Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection in 2001 at the Harvard Art Museums and in 2004, Robert Matta: Making the Invisible Visible at the McMullen Museum at Boston College. She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues, and written extensively on contemporary art for ARTnews and Art Nexus magazines. She received her Doctorate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard.
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Art Museums