
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Victor Vazquez earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico. He went on to complete doctoral level coursework in Education, and Comparative Religion at New York University. In 1982, he traveled to India, China and Japan to study art, literature and the cultural history of these regions. He went on to study photography with Jan Jurasek and attend the School of Visual Arts and the Maine Photographic Workshop.
Additional Information:
Venice Biennale 2007
Proyecto de Arte Publico Puerto Rico
Nooderlicht Photography Festival 2002
Art Net - Vazquez Images
Victor Vazquez Website
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES
2007 Diálogos. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
2006 Selected Works, Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris, France
Liquids and Signs, Espacio Proyecto ACE , Buenos Aires, Argentina
Liquids and Signs, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2005 Selected Works, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
El Ojo Ajeno, Photography Center, Lima, Peru
Liquids and Signs, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2004 Liquids and Signs, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2003 Requiem for / by a Culture, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Ancestros, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Borders, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2001 Body and Memory, Installation, Galeria Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Recent Works, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
Recent Works, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo David Pérez-Mac Collum, Guayaquil, Ecuador
2000 Cultura-natura, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Recent Works, Photography/Installation, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
1999 The House of Souls, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
The House of Souls, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Body and the Bird, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
1996 Body and the Bird, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1994 The Self Portrait and Extended Body, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1993 The Realm of Waiting, Hostos Gallery, Hostos Communitty College, Bronx, New York, United States
1992 The Realm of Waiting, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
1991 Victor Vazquez’s Photography, Galeria Latinoamericana, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1989 Hermes Bookstore, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1988 Rites, Galeria Latinoamericana, Photography Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Rites, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
1987 Eloquences : China and its people, Liga de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1986 Eloquences : China and its people, Galeria Oller, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS
2007 Faccia Lei. Spazio Thetis, Arsenale. 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venezia. Italia
2006 Rewind..Rewind…Puerto Rican Art Video, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Present Art XII, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
Biennial Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografía 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gigantografías, Fachada del Palais de Glace. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Muestra Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Foto Miami, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States
Feria Arte América, Galeria Juan Ruiz , Miami, Florida, United States
2005 Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris, France
FIAC, Galeria Juan Ruiz , Caracas, Venezuela
Classical and Contemporary Art Fair of Chicago, Galeria Juan Ruiz , Chicago, United States
Feria Arte América, Walter Otero Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States
Galerie Parisud , Art Paris, Paris, France
L.A Art Fair, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
2004 Assassins of the Mirror: The Body and the Writing, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Miami Art Fair, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States
2003 Foto L.A., Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York, United States
Art Basel, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States
2002 Paris - Photo, Galerie Baudoin Lebon , Paris, France
Hot City, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States
Photography as Concept, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Noorderlicht Foto Festival, Fries Museum, The Nertherlands
Art has no Homeland but the Artist does, Photo Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts and Rice University Media Center, Houston, Texas, United States
2001 Latin Artists Photographers, The Lehigh University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Museo del Barrio, Nueva York, United States
Art in Puerto Rico Across Time, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2000 New Perspectives in Photography, San Antonio Gallery, San Antonio Art University, Texas, United States
Puerto Rico in Paris, Maison de l’UNESCO, Paris, France
Puerto Rican Art 2001, Instituto de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999 Soul / Searching, Rockford Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Twenty Years, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tracing time: Photogravure – Eight Latin American Photographers, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, MADC, San José, Costa Rica
1998 Four Latin American Artists, Sicardi Gallery, Houston,Texas, United States
Small Format, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1997 L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Sixth Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba
American Voices, Smithsonian Art Gallery, Washington D.C., United States
Art Chicago Fair, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
1996 Recents Works, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Fotoseptiembre, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Fotoseptiembre, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1995 Still Life: Body as Objet in Contemporary Photography, American Society, Nueva York, United States
International Photo Meeting (Photography Biennial), Sao Paulo, Brazil,
3rd National Competition of Plastic Arts, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Island Journey, Hostos Gallery, Hostos Communitty College, Bronx, New York, United States
Cross Roads, 6 Latin American Photographers, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru
1994 Small Format, Galeria Luiggi Marrozzini, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Latin American Photography Meeting, Caracas, Venezuela
V Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba
Caribbean Art Today, Document Halle, Kassel, Germany
FotoFest (Photography Biennial), Houston, Texas, United States
Olympic Art, Chase Manhattan Bank Exhibit Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
ARTIS: Images against AIDS, Paris, France / Barcelona, Spain
1993 Greetings to the Tenth Biennial of Latin American Prints, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
First National Plastic Arts Show, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Carnival: Traditions, Myths and Magic, Galeria Normandie, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1992 Foto’92, Museo Latinoamericano del grabado, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Ninety Years of Puerto Rican Still Life, Galeria Latinoamericana, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1991 First National Competition of Plastic Arts, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1990 Puerto Rican exhibition against Hunger, Chase Manhattan Bank Exhibition Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Photo’ 90, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Rites and Sacrifices, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
1989 Images of Silence, Itinerant exhibition, in the Caribbean, United States and Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris.
AWARDS / PREMIOS
Honorable Mention, Cuenca Biennial, International Association of Art Critics, Puerto Rican Chapter
Angel Ramos Foundation Prize for Flowers for a Death, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Best Book Award for The Realm of Waiting, International Association of Art Critics, Puerto Rican Chapter
Quehacer Cultural Foundation of Puerto Rico Scholarship, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Scholarship for Graduate Studies from New York University and New York State for Study Abroad in India, China and Japan
Fellowship from Seton Hall University, New Jersey, United States
Collections / COLECCIONES
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (MOAFL), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, United States
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., United States
Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Casa Las Américas, Havana, Cuba
Lehigh Photography Collection , Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States
ARTIS, Paris, France
Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Museum of Art Los Angeles (MOLA), Los Angeles, United States
Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Paris, France
Publications / Publicaciones / Publications
Moving Metaphors: The Representation of AIDS in Caribbean Literature and Visual Arts, by Yvette Romero-Cesareo
Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures (Essays), Ed. Elizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Yvette Romero-Cesareo, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2007
Latin American Photography 1 y 2, Selections from the Lehigh University Art Gallery’s Collection, Vol.1, 2001, Essay: Ricardo Vieira; Vol. 2, 2006, Essay: Alejandro Anreus
El reino de la espera, Best Book Prize, 1991
Art of the Caribbean, by Veerle Poupeye, Thames & Hudson, 1999
Revista de Arte Cubano, Interview by Eugenio Valdés, 1999
Mapas Abiertos Fotografía Latinoamericana, Ediciones Lundwerg, Barcelona, Spain
Curator Alejandro Castellote
Víctor Vázquez, Art Nexus No. 5, Volume 2, 2003, Essay: Elizabeth Ferrer
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES / SELECCION CATALOGOS INDIVIDUALES
2004 Liquids and Signs.
Essay by Antonio Zayas, “El Cuerpo del Sentido”, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2003 Réquiem Por una / Para una Cultura.
Essay by Margarita Fernández Zavala, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002 The body and the bird
Essay: Elizabeth Ferrer, Portafolio
2001 Víctor Vázquez: Recent works.
Essay: Alexander Marshall, “Meaning and content”, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
El cuerpo y la memoria. 2001
Essay: Mara Negrón, “El vientre de la memoria”, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2000 Cultura-natura.
Essay: Francisco José Ramos, “Cultura-natura”, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 La casa de las almas.
Essay : José Manuel Noceda, “La identidad sincrética de Víctor Vázquez”, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Cuba
1996 The body and the bird.
Essay: Ilona Katzew, “Víctor Vázquez y las transparencias inmutables”, and Fernando Castro, “El vuelo perdido”, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1994 El autorretrato y el cuerpo extendido.
Essay: Rubén Ríos Ávila, “El montaje del sacrificio”, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1988 Víctor Vázquez. Fotografías recientes. 1988
Essay: Domingo García, Galeria Latinoamericana, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1986 Elocuencia, China y su gente.
Essay: Italo Nutini, Galeria Oller , Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1988
Selected collectives catalogues / Selección catálogos colectivos / Sélection catalogues collectives
2006 Rewind..Rewind…1 y 2. Video arte puertorriqueño.
Essay: Elvis Fuentes, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografía
Essay: Alejandro Montes de Oca and Elda Harrington, Biennial Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografía 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina
La Patria, la teoría del Caos y la Muestra Nacional de Arte.
Essay: Joel Weinstein, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004 Assassins of the Mirror: The Body and the mirror.
Essay: Dermis P. Leon, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2003 Fotografía en el Caribe.
Essay: Marianne de Tolentino, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002 Mundos Creados
Essay: Virginia Ratón and Wim Mellis, Noorderlicht Foto Festival, Fries Museum, The Netherlands
2000 Puerto Rico en París.
Essay: Marimar Benitez and Enrique García Gutiérrez, UNESCO, Paris, France
1998
Festival de Trois Continents.
Essay: Claude Nori, DRAC Pays de Loire, Nantes, France
1997
El Individuo y la Memoria.
Essay: José Manuel Noceda, Rostros de la Memoria, Castillo del Morro, Havana, Cuba
1995
The bodies as object.
Essay: Joe Wollin, The bodies as object in contemporary photography, American Society Art Gallery, New York
Island Journey.
Essay: Susana Torruella Leval, El viaje puertorriqueño, Hostos Gallery, Bronx, New York
1994
Fotoseptiembre.
Essay: Patricia Mendoza, Fotografía Latinoamericana, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Bienal Fotofest: American Voices
Essay: Charles Blassini FotoFest (Photo Biennial), Houston, Texas, United States
Arte, Sociedad y Reflexión.
Essay: Nestor Canclini, Lilliana Llanes and Nelson Herrera, (Photo Biennial), La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba
Karisbische Kunst Heute.
Essay: Laura Roulet-Hernández, Puertoricanische Kunst Heute, Document-Halle, Kassel, Germany
1993
Romper los márgenes.
Essay: José Navarrete, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
