el estudio rt

Ramon Tejada is a DominicanYork (of Dominican-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Latin American descent) designer and educator based in Providence, RI*. Ramon works in a hybrid design/teaching practice (as el estudio rt) focusing on collaboration, inclusion, unearthing, and the responsible expansion of design, a practice he has named “puncturing.” Ramon is an Associate Professor and Department Head in the Graphic Design Department at RISD.


Ramon received the Vilcek Prize in Design in 2024.


Ramon collaborated with Silas Munro on a series of workshops titled “Throwing the Bauhaus Under the Bus” and served, in collaboration with Polymode, as curator and lead on the BIPOC Design History: Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico as well as in REVERBERATIONS: Lineages in Design History at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York.


Ramon taught in the graduate MFA Communication Design program at Pratt Institute, at the undergraduate level at Parsons/The New School, CUNY–Queens College, and in the MA program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). He has been a guest artist and/or visiting faculty in the MFA in Graphic Design at Otis College of Art & Design, Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), Moore College of Art, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and Emily Carr University. He received an MFA in Performance Arts from Bennington College and an MFA in Graphic Design from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

He has spoken, led workshops and/or served as a guest critic at the Design Campus/ Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden, Germany, Pratt Institute, The New School/ Parsons, Mass/Art, RCA, CCA, CalArts, Otis, Cranbrook, Emily Carr U., London College of Communication, KASK, Ghent, Belgium, OCAD U., Yale University, Portland State University, SF Design Week, and Deem Journal’s Designing for Dignity Symposium at the MCA in Chicago, among others. 

He is a part of US with Nic Sanchez and Tom Ahn. 

Selected clients include The New School/ Parsons, NYIT, SVA, the Shakespeare Society, NJPAC, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, USDAN Gallery/Bennington College, the RISD Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, Praise Shadow Arts, Otis College of Art & Design, Fence Books, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York.

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