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Anthony Ramos is an American video artist, performance artist and painter. He was born in 1944 in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives in the South of France.
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Before he received an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts [1] he had studied painting at Southern Illinois University. He was a graduate assistant to Allan Kaprow. A conscientious objector, Ramos was jailed for 18 months for draft evasion.
Early in his career he received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and an Aspen Fellowship from the Aspen Institute. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ramos traveled widely in Europe, Africa, China and the Middle East. He documented the end of Portugal's colonial rule in Cape Verde and in Guinea-Bissau. He was in Teheran during the 1980 Iran hostage crisis.
Ramos' pioneering video works have been shown at the
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Anthony Ramos taught at Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, and the University of California at San Diego, among others. Since the late 1980s he has primarily worked in painting. Several international venues exhibited his work, among them the American Jazz Museum and Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center, Kansas City; Biennale de Dakar, Senegal.
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