Art consists of aesthetically organizing a thought. It’s the perfect substitute for crime because it lets me aesthetize transgressions within me and shape my ideas and instincts in another way.
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Born in 1973 in La Chorrera, Panama
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bibliography
Selected titles in our library

Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Centroamérica: deseo de lugar = Central America: desiring a place. With texts by Miguel A. López, M. Paola Malavasi Lachner, Paulo Herkenhoff, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Barcelona, RM Verlag, 2019.

55. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte - la Biennale di Venezia. Padiglione America Latina - IILA. El atlas del imperio. Exhibition catalogue, Biennale di Venezia, June 1 - November 24, 2013. With texts by Alfons Hug, Paz Guevara (et al.). Roma, Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano IILA, 2013.

Hernández Hernández, Pablo. Imagen-palabra. Lugar, sujeción y mirada en las artes visuales centroamericanas. Los ojos en las manos. Estudios de cultura visual 1. Madrid, Iberoamericana, 2012.

Acuña Ortega, Víctor Hugo, Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, and Dominique Ratton Pérez. Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Travesía por un estrecho dudoso = Transit through a doubtful strait. San José, Costa Rica, Teorética, 2012.

Who more sci-fi than us? Contemporary art form the Caribbean. Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, Netherlands, May 25 - August 26, 2012. With texts by Nancy Hoffmann (et al.). Amsterdam, KIT Publishers, 2012.

Radar. Musac's Journal of art and thought. Number 0, 2010. Model kits. Aspects of contemporary Latin American culture. León, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, 2010.

XXXI Bienal de Pontevedra. Utrópicos. Centroamérica e Caribe. Contexto-context. Exhibition catalogue, Bienal de Pontevedra, Spain, June 4 - September 12, 2010. Gerardo Mosquera (et al.). Pontevedra, Deputación de Pontevedra, 2010.

Quintero, Jhafis. Los dueños del mundo. San José, Ediciones Perro Azul, 2009.

Sexta Bienal de Artes Visuales del Istmo Centroamericano. Exhibition catalogue, Museo para la Identidad Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, November 13, 2008 - February 20, 2009. With texts by Adrienne Samos, Mónica Kupfer (et al.). Tegucigalpa, Mujeres en las Artes, 2008.

Exposiciones de proyectos complementarios. EPC. Emergentes, pintura, curaduría. Published in conjunction with three exhibitions at the Museo de arte y diseño contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica: "1er concurso centroamericano de artistas emergentes", December 4, 2003 - February 21, 2004; "Cuidado !Pinta! o (De)construcciones pictóricas", March 11 - May, 21; 2003; "4 artistas curadores", August 28 - September 30, 2003. With an introduction by Rolando Barahona-Sotela, texts by Ernesto Calvo (et al.). San José, Costa Rica, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, 2004.

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