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Sandra Ramos was born in Havana, Cuba in 1969. She was educated at the Elemental School of Visual Arts 20 de Octubre, at the San Alejandro Academy and at the Higher Art Institute (ISA); all in Havana, Cuba.

Ramos work can be found as part of the collection of prestigious museums and institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, Mass.; National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; National Royal Museum of Art, Ontario, Canada; Arizona State University Museum, Arizona; Grafik Museum Stiftung Schreiner, Bad Steben, Germany; Lehigh University Museum, Penn University, Philadelphia; Civitella Ranieri Foundation,Italy; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; and Ludwig Forum fur Kunst, Aachen, Germany. In 2013 Accola Griefen presented Ramos’ first solo exhibition in New York City.

Her work illustrates her views of the political and social contemporary context in her country and worldwide. Ramos takes elements and recognizable characters from political cartoons to comment humorously about a very dared reality. Although it is an autobiographical work in many ways, it relates to a generational position, provoking dialogue among private and public, personal and collective memories. Ramos lives and works in Miami, Florida.

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A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, by focusing on images of nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and openness of expression. In this installation series, I use these poetic resources translated into a short animation surrounded by a vignette-like woodcut frame, to highlight briefly but consistently contemporary life issues related to uncertainty, migration, and socio- political and economic manipulation. of populations in our globalized world.

Desert Island is a visual Haiku that points to the depressive decline of the natural resources in our world. The brain as a geographical symbol, island, earth, planet deteriorates and gradually ages in the video, until the exhaustion of all its resources. The brain symbol of intellect and spirituality, burns, darkens and disappears. The piece also points to the cycles of transformation, death and resurrection in nature and in social systems, leaving a hope of optimism in the creative hands of future generations.