Cuban painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born on 16 February 1943 in Havana.
Life
José Ramón Díaz Alejandro signs his works Ramón Alejandro. He left Cuba young and lived in exile in Argentina and Uruguay before reaching Europe. From 1963 he lived and worked in Paris.
From 1969 to 1971 he held a fellowship from the Cintas Foundation in New York. His first solo exhibition, entitled Alejandro, took place in 1969 at the Galerie Maya in Brussels; Paris took it up at the Galerie Jacques Desbrière in 1971, then at the Galerie du Dragon in 1987. He later settled in Miami.
The work
A painter and draughtsman, Ramón Alejandro is also a printmaker. Among other works, he contributed an etching to Menace de poème, d’éclair, de rien by the Peruvian poet Emilio Adolfo Westphalen (1988).
Exhibitions and collections
- Exposición de La Habana, Casa de las Américas, Havana, 1965
- Mostra grafica latinoamericana, Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano, Rome, 1967
- FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, 1984
- Latin American Art, Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, Paris, 14 October to 19 November 2022
- A Journey through Latin America, Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, Paris, 18 April to 31 May 2025
- Public collections: Bibliothèque nationale de France; Bibliothèque municipale d’Angers (print room); San Diego Museum of Art