In 1979 Fernando Castro-Ramírez was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do graduate studies in philosophy at Rice University, Houston (1979-1985). His first book, Five Rolls of Plus-X (1982), alternated poetry and photography. He began a career as a critic in 1988 writing for El Comercio (Lima); since then he has contributed to Lima Times, Photometro (San Francisco), Art-Nexus (Colombia), Cámara Extra (Caracas), Zonezero.com (Los Angeles), Artlies, Visible, Literal, Spot (Houston), Aperture (New York), and other publications. He is a contributing editor of Aperture magazine. His essay "Crossover Dreams" is featured in the voluminous award-winning book Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America 1867-1994(1998). His curatorial work includes "Modernity in the Southern Andes: Peruvian Photography 1900-1930.” Since 1996 he has been curator of photography at Sicardi Gallery (Houston) where he has curated: "Traces on the Glass: The Photographic Work of Geraldo de Barros 1948-1951(1998), "The Culture of Books and Light: The Photography of Abelardo Morell" (2001), etc. In 2000 he was co-curator of "The Art of Risk / The Risk of Art" (1999) and “Stone” (Centro de la Imagen, 2004). Since 1997 his own photographic work has taken a political turn under the title "Reasons of State." His work was included by Spanish critic Paco Barragán in the book The Art to Come (2003). His most recent solo exhibit “The Ideology of Color” (2004) was shown at the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires and will soon be an on-line exhibition at the Lehigh University website. His works are in the permanent collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Dancing Bear Collection (New York), Lehigh University (Pennsylvania), Museo de Arte (Lima), the Harry Ransom Collection, etc. He currently lives and works in Houston.
Fernando Casas
In 1972, Fernando Casas won the First National Prize for painting and in 1973 the same award for drawing in his country of origin, Bolivia. In 1968 he obtained the LASPAU fellowship to study philosophy in the United States. Casas first attended The Colorado College where in 1970 he won the Hastings Award for the best paper in philosophy. He graduated from this institution ‘magna cum laude’ and ‘Phi Beta Kappa.’ In 1972 he obtained a fellowship from Rice University to complete his doctoral studies in philosophy. After obtaining a phD in philosophy in 1978 Casas dedicated himself full-time to painting; experimenting with alternative systems of depiction that he called polar and flat-sphere perspectives. This philosophical/artistic project led to the publication of seminal papers in the journal Leonardo. For the past twenty-five years Casas has shown his work in individual and group exhibits at private galleries, museums, and public institutions in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He has published articles in various journals and his work is discussed in numerous articles and books. Since 1985, Casas has been a professor of philosophy and the humanities at Rice University. He is represented by Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc.
In 1979 Fernando Castro-Ramírez was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do graduate studies in philosophy at Rice University, Houston (1979-1985). His first book, Five Rolls of Plus-X (1982), alternated poetry and photography. He began a career as a critic in 1988 writing for El Comercio (Lima); since then he has contributed to Lima Times, Photometro (San Francisco), Art-Nexus (Colombia), Cámara Extra (Caracas), Zonezero.com (Los Angeles), 
Artlies, Visible, Literal, Spot (Houston), Aperture (New York), and other publications. He is a contributing editor of Aperture magazine. His essay "Crossover Dreams" is featured in the voluminous award-winning book Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America 1867-1994(1998). His curatorial work includes "Modernity in the Southern Andes: Peruvian Photography 1900-1930.” Since 1996 he has been curator of photography at Sicardi Gallery (Houston) where he has curated: "Traces on the Glass: The Photographic Work of Geraldo de Barros 1948-1951(1998), "The Culture of Books and Light: The Photography of Abelardo Morell" (2001), etc. In 2000 he was co-curator of "The Art of Risk / The Risk of Art" (1999) and “Stone” (Centro de la Imagen, 2004). 
Since 1997 his own photographic work has taken a political turn under the title "Reasons of State." His work was included by Spanish critic Paco Barragán in the book The Art to Come (2003). His most recent solo exhibit “The Ideology of Color” (2004) was shown at the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires and will soon be an on-line exhibition at the Lehigh University website. His works are in the permanent collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Dancing Bear Collection (New York), Lehigh University (Pennsylvania), Museo de Arte (Lima), the Harry Ransom Collection, etc. He currently lives and works in Houston.
In 1972, Fernando Casas won the First National Prize for painting and in 1973 the same award for drawing in his country of origin, Bolivia. In 1968 he obtained the LASPAU fellowship to study philosophy in the United States. Casas first attended The Colorado College where in 1970 he won the Hastings Award for the best paper in philosophy. He graduated from this institution ‘magna cum laude’ and ‘Phi Beta Kappa.’ In 1972 he obtained a fellowship from Rice University to complete his doctoral studies in philosophy. After obtaining a phD in philosophy in 1978 Casas dedicated himself full-time to painting; experimenting with alternative systems of depiction that he called polar and flat-sphere perspectives. This philosophical/artistic project led to the publication of seminal papers in the journal Leonardo. For the past twenty-five years Casas has shown his work in individual and group exhibits at private galleries, museums, and public institutions in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He has published articles in various journals and his work is discussed in numerous articles and books. Since 1985, Casas has been a professor of philosophy and the humanities at Rice University. He is represented by Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc.