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.
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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
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 culturalprofessionals, 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
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
2014 Photography Workshop, Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa,Tegucigalpa, June 2014
- 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
- 2013
- Talk, (re) Design (in) STP, VII Bienal de Sao Tomé e Príncipe, Sao Tomé, November 2013
Selected Collections
CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
Casa África, Gran Canaria
Museos de Tenerife
Davis Museum, Barcelona
Publications
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
Photo by Benjamín E. Delgado Hernández
Trailer
Monumenta, 2022
In Monumenta. Nine Guanche Embodiments, the aim is to give visibility to the forgotten Guanche women, who were part of the Aboriginal community of Tenerife. Ramos questions the forms of representation of the pre-colonial past from a contemporary perspective. After analysing many monuments, she undertakes a historical analysis to resolve the lack of awareness of subaltern identities’ past since they are under-represented.
Guanche women were active subjects in the pre-Hispanic communities of Tenerife. Since the Spanish conquest, Aboriginal societies came to be regulated by patriarchal premises that perpetuated some narratives by making others invisible, thus giving way to the oblivion of otherness. Through artistic, historical and social research, the artist developed nine identities inspired by the landscapes of each of the previous demarcations of the island, their ancestral culture and oral tradition.
She asked herself, what would they look like? What feelings might they experience? What life stories would they tell? The lack of representation relegates these answers to ourimagination. And this is liberating.
“Monumenta could be you and me. Looking back, following our own footsteps we’ve made to reach that essence, that origin, where everything was more genuine. Through embodying them, I give them my voice and my body to express themselves, iniciating a path through their stories, territories and feelings. This is how I reencounter these forgotten subjects, I decide to inhabit them and honor them. I think that public space should be re-appropriated. Each person should be free to reconstruct their own past and formulate alternative narratives. In doing so, I offer a renewed gaze through a cartography of women who represent values that escape from normativity, while claiming for a greater presence of women and subaltern identities in public space.”
In this context, Monumenta appears as a possibility of subversion of power structures, while questioning the narratives of the past. It is necessary to reconstruct the void.
- Yapci Ramos
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.
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
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 culturalprofessionals, 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
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
2014 Photography Workshop, Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa,Tegucigalpa, June 2014
- 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
- 2013
- Talk, (re) Design (in) STP, VII Bienal de Sao Tomé e Príncipe, Sao Tomé, November 2013
Selected Collections
CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
Casa África, Gran Canaria
Museos de Tenerife
Davis Museum, Barcelona
Publications
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