A life-long exposure to textiles and sewing, as well as his experience in the New York fashion industry, has cultivated in Ramon Fernandez-Bofill an intimate connection with textiles.  The root of his work explores the role of textile art in culture and identity.  His use of found fabrics, hand-crafted materials and traditional painting media result in hybrid surfaces that combine to create a mixture of painting, tapestry and installation.

Fernandez-Bofill is an American born in Italy to Cuban parents who eventually settled in Miami, Florida. He pursued degrees in drawing and painting, receiving a BFA in 1995 from The University of Miami, to which he received a full scholarship, and an MFA in 2005 from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).  At RISD he was awarded a fellowship and the prestigious Presidential Scholarship.  In 1993 Fernandez-Bofill was also awarded a six-week residency at Vermont Studio Center and in 2004 he received a scholarship to participate in a summer residency at West Dean College in West Sussex, England.  In 2006, he completed a six-month residency grant at the renowned Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cape Cod.

Ramon Fernandez-Bofill is presently a faculty member with the visual arts department at Miami International University of Art and Design.

In my studio at RISD in 2003 as a first year graduate
student.

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