(b. Dolores, Uruguay, 1932).
Ramos attended the National School of Fine Arts of Montevideo in 1951 where he studied under Vicente Martín. In 1959 he received a scholarship to study engraving techniques with Iberé Camargo and Johnny Friedlaender at the Museu de Arte Moderna in Sío Paolo. Later worked as a textile designer and newspaper illustrator. He traveled to Europe (1962-63) on a government scholarship and was a professor of drawing and painting at the School of Applied Arts of Uruguay (1967-1977). He established (1971) the Center of Artistic Expression, a workshop that was still active in 1998. He exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum (1965) and the Sío Paolo Bienal (1969, 1985). In 1992 he was awarded a USIA fellowship to the United States, which included an artist residency at the Massachusetts College of Art. In 1997 Ramos represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennale. His very early work was abstract and expressionist; since 1982 he has created a serie
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