Angel Ramiro Sanchez

Born Angel Ramiro Sanchez in 1974 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, at age six Ramiro was accepted with full scholarship into the Ninos Cantores School for musically gifted children. At age fourteen he began five years of apprenticeship with the realist painter, Abdon Jose Romero, an eminent specialist in murals for churches and publics buildings. In 1993 a study grant from Msgr Gustavo Ocando Yamarte, Founder of the Ninos Cantores, enable him to travel to Florence, Italy, Where he successfully passed the admission examination for the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti. During the four years he studied full time at the Accademia, receiving his diploma magna cum laude, Ramiro also attended drawing and painting sessions at the Florence Academy of Art, directed by painter Daniel Graves. Ramiro was appointed Senior Painting Instructor at the FAA in 1997. . He continues to live and work in Florence.

 

Ramiro’s paintings came to the attention of Italian private collectors for the first time in 1996 at a juried exhibition in Montopoli, near Florence. His successful showing led to the acquisition of his works by collectors such as Antonio Salini and count Francesco Guicciardini. Ramiro has been represented since 1998by Grenning gallery, where he held his first one-man show the following year. In 2001 he executed on commission a portrait of the lead actress in the off-Broadway production of The Countess, a new play devoted to Ruskin and his wife’s infamous affair with Millis. In 2003 his paintings and drawings were subject of a monograph “Ramiro” by international art critic John T. Spike. In 2005 he received the special Director’s Award at the Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art. He was invited to show his work as a guest artist at the Austria Biennale 2006 edition. Paintings, drawings and portraits by Ramiro are found in public and private collections in Italy, Germany, England, Hungary, The United States, Canada and Venezuela.

EXHIBITIONS

 One Man Shows:

1999- 2000- 2004 – 2007: Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York

  Group Shows:

            2009    Passion for Painting, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York

First Exhibition of Venezuelan Realist Painters in Italy, Istituto Portoghese di Sant’Antonio, Roma, Italy

 

            2008    10^th Anniversary Show, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York

                        San Francesco e il Cantico delle Criature, Pallazo Ducale, Massa, Italy

All Paintings great and Small, Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut

29^th Annual International, Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mistic, Connecticut

 

2007    28^th Annual International, Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mistic,       Connecticut

WH Patterson, London, England

 

2006    Local Landscapes and New Studio Works, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York

WH Patterson, London, England

Water, The Brigham Galleries, Nuntucket, Massachusetts

Internaional Biennale-Austria, Huettenberg, Austria

27^th Annual International, Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mistic, Connecticut

 

            2005    Local Landscapes, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York

The best Of… Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York

Biennale Internazionale dell”arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy

26^th Annual International, Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mistic, Connecticut

2004    Latinoamerican Artists, Venezuelan Consulate, New York, New York

25^th Annual International, Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mistic, Connecticut

 2003    Realism Revisited, Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany

Realism Revisited, hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York

Still Classical: recent works on Paper from Florentine Academies and Studios, Westbeth Arts Galleries, New York, New York

ISB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design,

Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy

Chiessa dell’Educatorio di Foligno, Florence, Italy

 2002   August-October, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

 2001    Latest Works  at Grenning Gallery, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

The New Master Show, General Elecric Corp Headquarters, Connecticut

1998    New Works, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

Soho, Grenning Gallery, New York, New York

 1997    Inaugural Show, Rosso Cinabro Association, Florence, Italy

Alumni and Staff of the Florence Academy of Art, St. Peter’s Hall, London, England

1996    Summer Juried Show, Centro Culturale, Montopoli Vald’Arno, Italy (2^nd Prize)

Paintings From The Florence Academy of Art,  The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida

 1995    Mostra dall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Municipio, Pontedera, Italy