Yapci Ramos
YAPCI RAMOS (b. 1977, Canary Islands, Spain)
Yapci Ramos studied Photography at Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts & Design London (CSM) and earned her Masters in Creative Documentary from the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She lives and works between Barcelona, Tenerife and New York.
Ramos’s work is forceful in its subtle simplicity. A multi-media artist, her diverse output is deeply invested in interactions: those that define the subject in relation to the “Other.” With a focus on abstract visual and conceptual relationships, she demonstrates an ability to capture personal moments that imply narrative depth. Ramos’s projects challenge the border of comfort between the body and society while engaging the intricate workings of both internal psychology and external expressions of identity.
Ramos’s work has been exhibited in international biennials in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa: 8ème Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako; 2nd Trienal de Luanda; 1st Biennale Encounter of Contemporary Caribbean Art, Aruba; 7th Bienal de Sao Tomé e Príncipe; 5th Bienal de Honduras, Tegucigalpa; 9th Bienal de Artes Visuales del Istmo Centroamericano – BAVIC, Guatemala.
Her work has also been shown in museums, art centers, galleries, festivals and institutions in around the world including at the CCCB Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona; TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife; CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Galería Na Solyanke, Moscow; Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York; CCET Centro Cultural de España, Tegucigalpa; Musée d’histoire de la médecine, Paris; Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris; EAC Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo; Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna.
In July 2021, she was selected and invited to take part in the performance programme at The Kaimera Lab, Belloy-Saint-Léonard. In February 2020, she was selected as artist in residence at Watermill Center – a laboratory for performance, New York. In June 2018, she was artist in residence at The Fountainhead Residency, Miami.
Reviews of her work have appeared in El País, Forbes, Paper Magazine, Wall Street International Magazine, Cools, La Vanguardia, among others.
Catalogue of Works
TEEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
BORN 1977, TENERIFE, SPAIN
LIVES AND WORKS IN BARCELONA, SPAIN
EDUCATION
- 2016
MFA in Creative Documentary Film, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
- 2001
Study in Photography at Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design London, England
- 1998
BA in Advertising and Public Relations, Universidad Europea, Madrid, Spain
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS AND SITE-SPECIFIC WORK
- 2021
Lloro, Espacio Cultural el Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
- 2020
Pelo, orgasmo y un jersey de cuello alto, Davis Museum. Barcelona, Spain
- 2019
Connections, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Uruguay (2-artist exhibition with Janet Biggs); Curator: Barbara Polla
Welcome Her, Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Know Us, CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Spain- 2018
Show me (20-year retrospective), Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), Spain
Yapci Ramos, The Davis Museum, Barcelona
Video Forever 37 * BLOODY FALL/S *, Université Paris Descartes – Musée d’Histoire la Medecine, Paris
El dedo en el ojo, ¡vídeo! Cinco aproximaciones canarias contemporáneas_, Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Spain; Curator: Esther Aldaz- 2017
El iris de Lucy, Centro Atlántico do Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
+F, Post-conceptual artists in the Canary Islands 2000 – 2017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain- 2015
Un respiro en el camino, multi-media installation, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 2014
MIN Museo para la Identidad Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Lanzarote, Spain- 2014
La Noche del Trópico, multi-media installation, CCET Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- 2013
Bioderivas, Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain
Sin escala. Nuevas coordenadas del arte en Canarias DA2-Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
In Process, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain
Juego de máscaras. La identidad como ficción. Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain- 2012
Juego de máscaras. La identidad como ficción, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
- 2010
Si quebró el cántaro, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artest Tenerife, Spain
- 2009
Pandora’ Box, CCCB Centro Cultural Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain
- 2008
Réveille-Toi, CCCB Centro Cultural Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2018
Red-Hot, Catinca Tabacaru, New York
- 2015
Perras y Putas, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2021
Gravedad y Órbita, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
En diálogo con José Martín, CAAM, Centro Atlántico do Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Family History, Delaware Contemporary, Delaware- 2019
MERDELAMERDELAMERDELAMERDELAMERDELAMER, Mario Mauroner Gallery, Austria
Moving Women, Galerie Magda Danysz, France- 2018
Video Forever* “Ce monde que nous n’avons pas encore pas encore perdu” from anthropocene to eden*, Galerie Magda Danysz, France
Con el dedo en el ojo (Cinco aproximaciones canarias contemporánea), Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Spain- 2017
TERRA NOVA, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
Ibicenco, Centro Cultural Jesus, curated by Diego Alonso, Ibiza, Spain- 2016
Desnudados, Una mirada contemporánea, photography, The Malone Studio, Madrid, Spain
- 2015
Senses of Place, Loop Barcelona, Reial Circle Artistic de Barcelona, Spain
- 2014
Redes, multimedia installation, IX Bienal de Artes Visuales del Istmo Centroamericano BACIV, Guatemala
La pared, video installation, LOOP Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Redes, multi-media installation, V Bienal de Honduras, MIN Museo para la Identidad Nacional, curated by Orlando Britto Jinorio, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Videoscreening, Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo MIAC Castillo de San José, Lanzarote, Spain
La Pared, video installation, La isla imaginada II, Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, Fuerteventura, Spain- 2013
Bioderivas, installation, Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain
Sandy, video, Re-Design – Sítese, 7a Bienal Sao Tomé e Principe, Soa Tomé, Curated by Fernando Alvim
Sin Escala, Nuevas coordenadas del arte en Canarias, video installation, DA2 -Domus Adium 2002,
Salamanca, Spain, Curated by Lorena Martínez de Corral and Alejandro Vitaubet
…Lo-li-ta…, photography, In Process, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain
Miss Catering, photography, Juego de máscaras. La identidad como ficción, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain- 2012
La noche del trópico, INSIGHT Foundation, I Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo del Caribe, Aruba, Curated by Jose Manuel Noseda & Orlando Britto jinorio
…Lo-li-ta…, photography, Juego de máscaras. La identidad como ficción, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain- 2011
A Dream, installation, Arte de Guerrilla, XII BAC Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain. Curated by Gigi Harrington & Juan José Fernández, Curated by Javier González de Durana & Isidro Hernández
Overtime, Legacy, Sound Proof 4, London, UK
Big Deal Sexy 100, London, UK
A Dream, Jokes & Nightmares, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
…Lo-li-ta…, photography, Si quebró el cántaro, El Castillo Espacio Cultural Tenerife, Spain Curated by Javier González de Durana & Isidro Hernández
Back, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York- 2010
Fronteras, photography, Emotional Geographies – Art and Affection – II Trienal de Luanda, Espacio Platinium, Angola Curated by Fernando Alvim & Orlando Britto Jinorio
Reflexió Temporal, BAC Barcelona Arte Cotemporáneo, Fundació Suñol, Spain Curated by Macu Morán & Gigi Harrington y Juan José Fernández
Si quebró el cántaro, …Lo-li-ta…, photography, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain Curated by Javier González de Durana & Isidro Hernández
Estonosepara,Vídeoscreening, En los márgenes de la videocreación canaria, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain Curated by Emilio Ramal- 2009
Solamente Yo (casta y pura) Pandora ś Box, X BAC Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo, CCCB Centro Cultural
Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain Curated Gigi Harrington y Juan José Fernández
Frontières, 8ème Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie de Bamako, Conservetoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia. Bala Fasséké Kouyaté, Mali Curated Orlando Britto
Hotel, Niu, Espai Artistic Contemporary Barcelona, Spain- 2008
Rèveille-Toi, IX BAC Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo, CCCB Centro Cultural Contemporánea de Barcelona, Spain
Hotel, Niu, Espai Artistic Contemporani Barcelona, Spain- 2007
Masion Justine, Caótica Ana a Film by Julio Medem, Madrid, Spain
- 2006
Corps Tansit, Taller Caminal, Barcelona, Spain
Portra-it, Palau Rober, Barcelona, Spain- 2005
Fotonoviembre VIII, Sala Caja Canarias La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Festival Samo II, Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona, Spain
BIENNIALS
- 2014
IX Bienal de Artes Visuales del Istmo Centroamericano – BAVIC, Guatemala
V Bienal de Honduras (only non-Honduran artist)
7th Bienal de Sao Tomé e Príncipe- 2012
First Biennale Encounter of Contemporary Caribbean Art
- 2010
II Trienal de Luanda
- 2009
8ème Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako
RESIDENCIES
- 2021
The Kaimera Lab, Belloy-Saint-Léonard
- 2020
The Watermill Center, Hamptons, NY
- 2018
Fountainhead, Miami
- 2017
CTG-R: Zimbabwe, Harare (CTG Collective in collaboration with Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions)
- 2016
CTG-R: Newfoundland, Canada (CTG Collective in collaboration with Matthew Evans)
- 2012
Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo del Caribe, Aruba
- 2010
II Trienal de Luanda, Angola
AWARDS & GRANTS
- 2021
Public call for the selection, promotion and dissemination of projects in a competitive
competition regime, within the framework of cultural heritage (popular culture). Instituto
Canario de Desarrollo Cultural.- 2020
Public Projects and Artistic Creations Grant, Cultura en Red, Gobierno de Canarias
Grants for research, artistic creation and production in the field of the visual arts. Culture and Sport Ministry, Gobierno de España.
Grants for the selection, impulse, execution and promotion of cultural projects between non-profit cultural professionals, companies and entities. Gobierno de Canarias.
Research projects and artistic creation in the field of the visual arts in Canary Islands.
Gobierno de Canarias.- 2017
Recipient of the audiovisual grant convened by the Cabildo de Tenerife. TEA Tenerife
Espacio de las Artes. Cabildo de Tenerife.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & TEACHING WORKSHOPS
- 2021
Conversation with Leslie Shaffer, Director at the Delaware Contemporary, within the frame of the collective exhibition Family History, Delaware, June 2021
Master Class, Universidad Europa de Canarias, Tenerife, June 2021
Talk, Flux Club, Antic Teatre, Barcelona, June 2021
Conversation with Gilberto Gonzalez, Director of TEA Tenerife
Espacio de las Artes and Yolanda Peralta Sierra, Curator, within the frame of the Yapci Ramos: Show Me, Know Us and Welcom Her Catalog presentation, Tenerife, April 2021
- 2020
Family Workshop, Education at The Watermill Center, New York, February 2020
In Process Presentations, The Watermill Center, Hamptons, New York, February 2020
- 2018
Conversation with Catinca Tabacaru, Owner and director of Catinca Tabacaru Gallery and Yolanda Peralta Sierra, Curator, within the frame of the Red-Hot Show, New York, March 2018
2014 Photography Workshop, Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa,Tegucigalpa, June 2014
- 2013
Talk, (re) Design (in) STP, VII Bienal de Sao Tomé e Príncipe, Sao Tomé, November 2013
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
Casa África, Gran Canaria
Museos de Tenerife
Davis Museum, Barcelona
PUBLICATIONS
Britto Jinorio, O., González, G., Segura Clavell, J., Peralta, Y., Bourne Farrell, C., Cohen, D., Njami, S., Polla, p., Prieto, I. (2020)
Yapci Ramos: Show me. Know us. Welcome her.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
CAAM, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno.
ISBN: 978-84-17434-10-5
Britto Jinorio, O., Jurado Quintana, Á., Williamson, S., Atangana, E., Njami, S. (2017)
El iris de Lucy: artistas africanas contemporáneas
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
CAAM, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno.
ISBN: 978-84-92579-88-4
Britto Jinorio, O., Déniz Sosa, C., Rodríguez Quintana, M.C., Sadarangani, G., Barro, D., García, A. (2017)
+F : Artistas post-conceptuales en Canarias, 2000 – 2017.
CAAM, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno.
ISBN: 978-84-92579-92-1
Noceda Fernández, J.M. (ed.) (2014)
Prome Encuentro Bienal Arte Contemporaneo di Caribe
Aruba: LM Publishers.
ISBN: 978-94-60222-67-2
Yapci Ramos
Parto
Centre d’arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
February 29 – June 2, 2024
Yapci Ramos
Welcome Her
Casa Africa
Mar 22 – Aug 30, 2019