Belkis Ramírez (1957–2019) was a Dominican contemporary visual artist mainly working in the mediums of printmaking (i.e., woodcut and wood engraving) and installation art.
[citation needed] She studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, graduating with a degree in Architecture and Graphic Design in 1986.
In this aesthetic, the xylographic sheet changes from being an instrument in the service of the artwork's material formalization to being an intervened artistic object in itself that is halfway between relief, bulk sculpture, and "sculptopainting".
With their exhibition “Other Visions” (Casa de Francia, 1994) their first collaborative project they introduced contemporary and conceptual art in Santo Domingo.
In 2008 Belkis Ramírez and Jorge Pineda formed Quintapata Collective, adding next-generation artists Pascal Meccariello and Raquel Paiewonsky, with the desire to keep creating art projects that can maintain an open dialogue with both the local and international community.