Born in 1965 in Mérida, Venezuela. Ramón Lepage is a documentary photographer who majored in Communication at Emerson College in Boston and did his Masters of Arts at Boston Art Institute, USA. His work has been exhibited in France and the United States, as well as in the most important museums of Venezuela. He has […]
Born in 1965 in Mérida, Venezuela. Ramón Lepage is a documentary photographer who majored in Communication at Emerson College in Boston and did his Masters of Arts at Boston Art Institute, USA. His work has been exhibited in France and the United States, as well as in the most important museums of Venezuela. He has been living in Panamá since 2009. Solo Shows: No Blood for Oil at the Ateneo de Caracas in 1992, Trasandina at the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas in 1994, La Tortilla Milagrosa (The Miraculous Tortilla) at the Alliance Française, Caracas in 1995, Retorno Visual al Soberbio Orinoco (Visual Return to the Mighty Orinoco) at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber-MACCSI, Caracas in 1998, Espejos del Itsmo (Reflections of the Isthmus) at Sala Cultural Banesco, Panamá in 2015 and Calle Ciega (Dead End) in Armónica Gallery, Panamá in 2016. Group Shows: VII National Photography Salon 1993 at the Museo Sacro, Caracas in 1993, IV Young Photography Salon at the MACCSI, Caracas in 1993, Moradas del Agua (Dwellings on the Water) at the IV National Guayana Art Biennale, Ciudad Bolívar in 1994, Axis Mundi at the Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas in 1996, Señales de Tránsito (Traffic Signals) at the PDVSA Cultural Center in Puerto La Cruz in 1999, VI Christian Dior Arts Biennale at Corp Group Foundation, Caracas in 1999, Identidad y Revelaciones: Fotografías Latinoamericanas (Identity and Revelations: Latin-American Photographs) at the Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas in 2011, Banco parece plata no es. La otra microfinanzas, (Microfinances) Sala TAC in Caracas in 2012. Ramón Lepage is the recipient of the prestigious Luis Felipe Toro Prize (1993) from the National Council for the Arts of Venezuela for Trasandina, a body of work about the Andean region of Venezuela, which is included in the permanent collection of photography at the Fine Arts Museum of Venezuela.