Ramos held internships at Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was a fellow in the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program.[4] Ramos was a public programs educator at the Brooklyn Museum.[4] She later worked at the Newark Museum of Art in New Jersey as an assistant curator.[4]
Ramos joined the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) as the acting chief curator and curator of Latino art in 2010 until her departure in 2021.[1][6][4] At SAAM, she organized several different exhibits, including “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art” in 2013, “Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography” in 2017, “Tamayo: The New York Years" in 2017-18, and “¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now” in 2021.[4][2][5][7][8] During her time at SAAM, Ramos has doubled the Latino collections.[7][8]
Ramos was appointed as chief curatorial and conservation officer at the National Gallery of Art on May 13, 2021.[1][2] Ramos is the first woman and the first person of color to be the chief curatorial and conservation officer at the National Gallery of Art.[1][2]
