Born in 1965, Richard Ashraph Ramsaran is a conceptual artist from Trinidad and Tobago. He goes by the name Ashraph. His first solo exhibition was in 1991; several group and solo exhibitions followed over the years. In 2008, he held a conceptual show titled, “A Carnival Band” at the National Museum and Art Gallery. In Trinidad, he’s shown at Y Art Gallery: The Mask exhibition in 2013, and Black Indian in  2015, and at the Frame Shop: the Bat exhibition in 2014, and A sailor is a Sailor is a sailor in 2017. He has also exhibited in St. Lucia, Curaçao and London.