Gustavo Ramos (artist)
Brazilian-American Artist
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Gustavo Ramos (born 1993) is a Brazilian-American fine artist and oil painter. He initially gained recognition for painting a series of realistic portraits that went on to receive national and international awards. In 2020, he was a featured artist at the Springville Museum of Art, where one of his paintings was acquired for the museum's permanent collection.[1] In 2022, he was selected as a winner of Royal Talens' The Year of Rembrandt Award, when his work was displayed in the Rijksmuseum.[2] Ramos' notable portrait commissions include Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos for the Harvard Club of New York City[3] and Irish novelist James Joyce for The Atlantic.[4]
Gustavo Ramos | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 November 1993 Maringá, Paraná, Brazil |
| Education | Southern Virginia University |
| Style | Contemporary Realism |
| Website | https://www.gustavoramos.art/ |
Early life and education
Gustavo Ramos was born in 1993[5] in the country of Brazil. At the age of 15, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona.[6] Not being fluent in the English language, he turned his attention to facial expressions and bodily gestures which precipitated his interest in portrait drawing and painting.[7] He went on to study oil painting at Southern Virginia University where he earned his bachelor's degree in 2017.[6] In that same year, he was the recipient of the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Foundation Fine Art Award.[8] He later attended the Florence Academy of Art.[6]
Career
While Ramos was still in college, he created several self-portrait drawings as he studied the techniques of the old masters.[9] In 2020, one of his self-portraits from this period was featured on the cover of The Artist's Magazine's "The Best of Drawing,"[10] earning him nationwide recognition.
After finishing his studies in 2018, Ramos created a series of realistic portrait paintings with a focus on psychological narratives that would go on to be featured in publications like The Artist's Magazine,[7] Fine Art Connoisseur,[5] BuzzFeed[11] and Southwest Art which included him in "21 Under 31: Young Artists to Buy Now".[12] In 2019, Ramos was accepted into the Art Renewal Center 13th Annual Salon, with his selected painting receiving a Staff Award[13] and travelling to Sotheby's and the European Museum of Modern Art.[14] In 2021, Ramos earned his place as a finalist in the Boynes Emerging Artist Award.[15]
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In 2022, Ramos was selected by Royal Talens as the artist to represent North America in The Year of Rembrandt,[2] where he was awarded a trip to the Netherlands and the opportunity to display his work at the Rijksmuseum alongside the 6 other winning artists.[2]
In 2024, Ramos was included into the Lunar Codex,[16] a time capsule launched to the Moon named the most expansive, international, and diverse collection of contemporary culture launched into space.[17] His selected painting "Winter" was published in Veja Magazine,[18] Brazil's most influential outlet of printed media, as part of an article covering the Lunar Codex.[19]
In 2025, Ramos was commissioned to paint a formal portrait of Puerto Rican attorney and independence activist Pedro Albizu Campos, which was unveiled at the Harvard Club of New York City for permanent display.[3] Also in 2025, the portrait of Irish novelist James Joyce by Ramos was featured in The Atlantic magazine’s July issue accompanying a review of Joyce and his biographer Richard Ellmann.[4]
Ramos has most recently stepped into educational roles, including teaching workshops at the Scottsdale Artists School,[20] Art Fest Mesa,[21] being a guest lecturer for Artists Magazine,[22] and releasing an online drawing course with Domestika.[23]
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