Rafael López-Ramos was born in Cabaiguán (1962) and raised in Havana, Cuba, where he studied at Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), 1987-1991, and graduated from Academia San Alejandro, 1985. His latest solo shows have been Flashback, Cowry Art Studio, North Miami, 2020; Serendipity (two person show with Natasha Perdomo), Artium Miami, 2017; Chromatic Aporias, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, 2015; and Wonderland, The Art Link, Miami, 2013, and 17 Frost Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2012.

Since the 1980s his work has participated in curated group exhibitions like Island in the Swirl, Galleria Ca’ D’Oro, New York, NY. 2021, The Prodigious Decade, Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL, 2017; Stealing Base: Cuba at Bate, The 8th Floor, New York, NY, 2013; Killing Time, Exit Art, New York, NY, 2007; Cuban Art outside Cuba, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, 2006; Junge Kunst aus Kuba, Museum Friedrichshof, Austria, 2001; 1er Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, 1995; Nacido en Cuba, Museo de Arte Moderno del Estado de México, Toluca, 1992, and Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela, 1991; El Objeto Esculturado, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, 1990. López-Ramos art is discussed in the books Artists in Purgatory -Jorge Reynardus Collection, The Cuban Art Alliance, 2017, and Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, University of Texas Press, 2011.

He resided in Vancouver, Canada between 1997 and 2006, when moved to South Florida, where currently lives and works. His art is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, as well as numerous private collections worldwide.