Biography
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he 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.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions / Exposiciones individuales / Expositions individuelles
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 / Expositions collectives
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 / Prix
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 / Collections
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

Commissioned Works / Trabajos comisionados / Commandes
Resident Artist, Painted Bodies, American Foundation, Santiago, Chile
ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair, Recorridos fotográficos, Madrid, Spain
Rites, Installation, Fotofest, Houston, Texas, United States
The Realm of Waiting, ARTIS, 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 individuals catalogues / Selección catálogos individuales / Sélection catalogues individuelles
2004
Liquids and Signs. 2004
Essay by Antonio Zayas, “El Cuerpo del Sentido”, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2003
Réquiem Por una / Para una Cultura. 2003
Essay by Margarita Fernández Zavala, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002
The body and the bird. 2002
Essay: Elizabeth Ferrer, Portafolio
2001
Víctor Vázquez: Recent works. 2001
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. 2000
Essay: Francisco José Ramos, “Cultura-natura”, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998
La casa de las almas. 1999
Essay : José Manuel Noceda, “La identidad sincrética de Víctor Vázquez”, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Cuba
1996
The body and the bird. 1996
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. 1994
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.1988
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. 2005-2006
Essay: Elvis Fuentes, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografía 2006
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. 2004
Essay: Dermis P. Leon, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2003
Fotografía en el Caribe. 2003
Essay: Marianne de Tolentino, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002
Mundos Creados 2002
Essay: Virginia Ratón and Wim Mellis, Noorderlicht Foto Festival, Fries Museum, The Netherlands
2000
Puerto Rico en París. 2000
Essay: Marimar Benitez and Enrique García Gutiérrez, UNESCO, Paris, France
1998
Festival de Trois Continents. 1998
Essay: Claude Nori, DRAC Pays de Loire, Nantes, France
1997
El Individuo y la Memoria.1997
Essay: José Manuel Noceda, Rostros de la Memoria, Castillo del Morro, Havana, Cuba
1995
The bodies as object.1994
Essay: Joe Wollin, The bodies as object in contemporary photography, American Society Art Gallery, New York
Island Journey. 1995
Essay: Susana Torruella Leval, El viaje puertorriqueño, Hostos Gallery, Bronx, New York
1994
Fotoseptiembre. 1994
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. 1994
Essay: Nestor Canclini, Lilliana Llanes and Nelson Herrera, (Photo Biennial), La Cabaña, Havana, Cuba
Karisbische Kunst Heute.1994
Essay: Laura Roulet-Hernández, Puertoricanische Kunst Heute, Document-Halle, Kassel, Germany
1993
Romper los márgenes.1993
Essay: José Navarrete, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela

Selected articles / Artículos seleccionados / Articles sélectionnés
2006
Mercedes Trelles, El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Acerca de Signos y Líquidos: Víctor Vázquez, Fotomundo. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Juan Antonio Molina. Enfásis: Del cuerpo fotografiado al cuerpo fotográfico (variantes de un discurso sobre lo espiritual en la fotografía). Zero Zone. Mexico D.F., Mexico
2005
Suset Sánchez, Historias nómadas de un cuerpo híbrido y subversivo. art.es International contemporary art.   Magazine, No. 9
2004
Lorna Zayas Rodríguez, Víctor Vázquez en foco, Imagen, July 2004, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
José Manuel Noceda, La Identidad Sincrética de Víctor Vázquez, Arte al Día Internacional, No.105
2003
Elizabeth Ferrer, Víctor Vázquez, Art Nexus, No. 51, Volume 2
Edward Sozanski, The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2003, Philadelphia, United States
Collette Chattopadhyay, L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational Absolut 2003, Art Nexus, No. 50, pages 123-127, Volume 2, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2002
Joseph R. Wolin, Víctor Vázquez, Art Nexus, No. 44, pages 123-127, Volume 2, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, United States
2001
Mara Negrón, El vientre de la memoria, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999
Eugenio Valdés, Entrevista, Revista de Arte Cubano, 1999
1998
Scott Snyder, Soul / Searching, Rockford Art Museum, 1998
Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz, Introvertion / Extrovertion, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
José Antonio Pérez Ruiz, Víctor Vázquez, Art Nexus, No. 30, pages 148-149, Galeria Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1997
José Navarrete, Extra Cámara, No. 11 / No. 6 Portafolio, Caracas, Venezuela, 1997
1996
Manuel Alvarez Lezama, Shared bodies and silhouette souls, The San Juan Star, 13 October 1996
Ileana López Avilés, Víctor Vázquez, el cuerpo y el autorretrato extendido, Caras de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1996
Rubén Ríos Ávila, El montaje del sacrificio, Postdata, No. 12, 1996
1995
José Antonio Pérez Ruíz, Víctor Vázquez en Galería Botello, Art Nexus, April-June 1995
Doreen M. Colón Camacho, Extroversión de Víctor Vázquez, El Nuevo Día, 19 February 1995
Joseph R. Wolin, The bodies as object in contemporary photography. American Society Art Gallery, New York, 1995
1994
Anónimo, Obsesionado por el cuerpo, Etiqueta de Puerto Rico, Year 3, No. 15, 1994
Rubén Ríos Ávila, El montaje del sacrificio, El Diario, 13 October 1994
Enrique García Gutiérrez
- Víctor Vázquez, Testigo de la muerte, El Nuevo Día, 21 July 1994
- Víctor Vázquez la zona personal, El Nuevo Día, 16 October 1994
josé Antonio Pérez Ruiz, Víctor Vázquez en Botello, El Diario, 10 November 1994
1992
Mario Alegre Barrios, El Reino de la Espera según Víctor Vázquez, 1992
Betsy López Abrahams, Artis as Exorcist, The San Juan Star, April 1992
Arlene Souchet, Un relato-entrevista sobre la fotografía de Víctor Vázquez, 1992
1991
Vanessa Droz, Retrato del Príncipe Próspero, Claridad, 14 June 1991
Domingo Garcia, Death and the artist, The San Juan Star, 26 May 1991
Antonio Martorell, La espera real, El Nuevo Día, July 1991
Luís Rafael Sánchez, El Reino de la Espera, Revista Universidad de América, May 1991
Melba Miranda, El Reino de la Espera primer libro de Víctor Vázquez, Diálogo (Paréntesis), May 1991
Graciela Gutiérrez Martinó, El Reino de la Espera, Claridad, 24 May 1991
Myrna Rodriguez, Mixed Media Photography exhibit seen astounding, The San Juan Star, 4 July 1991
1990
La Revue Noire, Portafolio, Paris, France, 1990
José Antonio Pérez Ruiz, Víctor Vázquez y las transcendencias del instante, El Nuevo Día, 25 August 1990
1989
Manuel Pérez-Lizano, Víctor Vázquez: sensaciones congeladas en la imagen. El Nuevo Día, 31 August 1989