Jhafis Quintero (Panama, 1973) lives and work in Europe Plastic artist and writer. Jhafis Quintero began his career as an artist while discounting 10 years in prison in Costa Rica, with the help of artist Haru Wells, who works with the institution and was determined to demonstrate that art is an effective substitute for crime. His prison experience plays a prominent role in his work, with a unique perception of the passage of time and its implications for a body immersed in that particular time frame, and a constant reflection on death that slides over the life of the interns. His artistic practice arises from his personal experiences in the prison world, silence, insecurity, but also imagination and creativity aimed at finding means of survival. He has had personal and group exhibitions in museums in New York, Texas, Madrid, London, Barcelona, Istanbul, Brazil, Argentina and Tazmania, among others, and his work is part of private collections such as Daros (Switzerland), Cisneros or the National Center of Fine Arts of Paris. He is the author of 'Máximas de seguridad',' 'Los dueños del mundo' y La Casa de los Geckos'.
Jhafis Quintero (Panamá, 1973) Artista plástico y escritor. Jhafis Quintero inició su carrera como artista mientras descontaba 10 años de prisión en Costa Rica, de la mano de la artista Haru Wells, quien estaba decidida a demostrar que el arte es un sustituto efectivo del crimen. Su experiencia carcelaria juega un papel destacado en su obra, con una percepción singular del paso del tiempo y sus implicaciones para un cuerpo inmerso en ese marco temporal particular, y una constante reflexión sobre la muerte que se desliza sobre la vida de los internos. Su práctica artística surge de sus experiencias personales en el mundo carcelario, el silencio, la inseguridad, pero también la imaginación y la creatividad dirigidas a encontrar medios de supervivencia. Ha realizado exposiciones personales y colectivas en museos de Nueva York, Texas, Madrid, Londres, Barcelona, Estambul, Brasil, Argentina y Tazmania, entre otros, y su trabajo forma parte de colecciones privadas como Daros (Suiza), Cisneros o el Centro Nacional de Bellas Artes de París. Es autor de 'Máximas de Seguridad', 'Los dueños del mundo' y La Casa de los Geckos'.
Jhafis Quintero Gonzalez
1973 Né au Panama
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www.jhafisquintero.com
www.jhafis-johanna.com
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023. MAC Panama performan Escu cho gratis
2023. Reflections CIFO , Linz Austris
2022. Maximas de seguridad Museo La Neumodejar Madrid
2018 “algunos eventos defaortunados del pasado”, Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama
2015 “Reforma” Sabrina Amrani gallery, Madrid, Spain
2014 “Cambalache” Sabrina Amrani gallery, Madrid, Spain
2014 “Ten years in jail” Analix for ever gallery, Genève, Suisse
2013 “Sobre – viviendo” Galeria Diablo Rosso, Panama
2013 "Jhafis Quintero: six videoworks from six international private collection”, Videoinsight® Center, Torino, Italia
2011 “La ley es dura pero es la ley”, Galería Despacio Federico Herrero, San José, Costa Rica
2009 “El santo del tren”, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica
2008 “Egresados, Máximas de seguridad, Hágalo usted mismo”, Instituto Panamense de Arte, Curitiba, Brasil
2007 “In Dubia Tempora”, project of documentary photography, texts and catalogs, MACD, Museo de Design y Arte Contemporano, San José, Costa Rica
2006 “In Dubia Tempora”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, Panama
2005 “La vida es corta pero puede ser larga mientras dura”, Festival Internacional de las Artes, San José, Costa Rica
2004 “In Dubia Tempora”, Centro Cultural Español, San José, Costa Rica
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2022. MAC Panama "Ahora Guardas Las Huellas de mis Pasos"
2021. ACAAP Artshow Chile
2021. Videocity HEAD Geneve curated by Raphaëlle Neidhart
2021 “Reimaginar El Cambio”, Museo Del Banco Central, San Jose, Costa Rica
2021 “The upshot of trans-afective solidaridad”, Contemporary art center Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2021 "The 12th PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON 2021”, Zurich, Switzerland
2021 “Art show Italia”, Piccola Parigi, Mantova, Italia
2021 « Inquietances des temps », CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris), Abbaye de Maubuisson, France
2021 “WE ARE EVEN THEY FORGET US »/ Video Intervention Program Concha Acustica, Park of the Americas, Merida, Yucatan
2021 "Reimaginando la frontera” Museos Del Banco Central De Costa Rica, Costa Rica
2021 “Reactivando videograìas”, Real Academia de España en Roma (RAE Roma) y la Red de Centros Culturales de la Cooperación Española, Roma, Italia
2021 " El día que nos hicimos bidimensionales" edición de 2021 de BIENALSUR, Argentina
2021 “VIDEOCITY.BS "LONELINESS" Centro de Congresos Basel, Bâle, Switzerland
2020 “ENTROUVERT” Analixforever Gallery, Genève, Switzerland
2020 “ART IS A FREEDOM” Analixforever Gallery, Genève, Switzerland
2020 “Online Performance Art Festival”, New York, USA
2020 VOLCANA Music & Arts Festival, Verona, Italia
2020 “Illuminating the Darkness: Our Carceral Landscape”, UCF ART GALLERY, Orlando, Florida
2020 “Patologias Compatibles artist collective Jhafis Johanna Barilier”, Factoria Santa Rosa Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2019 “OLTRE. TRA DENTRO E FUORI”, Palazzo Barolo, Torino, Italia, Curatore Tea Taramino
2019 "Le corps est la pesanteur" , Art center called Villa Pérochon in Niort, curated by Pascal Beaussee, Paris, France
2019 HBO The O.G. Experience Project, Chelsea, New York, USA
2019 “This Always in the Field of the Other / Ben Her Zaman Öteki'nin Alanındayım”, curated by Beral Madra, Evliyagil Museum, Private Contemporary Art Museum, Ankara, Turkey
2019 “ Condicionamiento Operante” Centro cultural español, la casa del soldado ", Panama
2018 “Justo X Bueno”, Bogota, Colombia
2018 « La prison exposée » Champ-Dollon à Penthes, Paris, France
2018 “LiberAzioni :art workshop” inside Torino maximum security prison, Torino, Italia
2018 "sfocar" , artfarm pilastro, Verona, Italia
2018 "Dismantling the Scaffold”, curated by the Hong Kong curator Christina Li Tai Kwun, Contemporary, Hong Kong, Chine
2018 "A jurney to freedom" Tazmanian museum and Art Gallery, Tasmanie
2017 “Santi Malandrini” Palazzo Barolo, Curatore Tea Taramino, Torino, Italia
2017 "Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles / Latin America" curated by artists Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2017 “DURA LEX SED LEX”, Bienal Del Sur, Rosario, Argentina
2017 « Arco Madrid », ART Fair, Madrid, Spain
2017 « video forever », Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
2016 X bienal centroamericana, Panama City, Panama
2016 “Jhafis Quintero” CASA dotART, Belo Horizonte,Brazil
2016 « UTOPIES, ESPOIRS, COLÈRES » COMMISSARIAT : ALINE PUJO, L’été photographique de Lectoure, France
2016 « Le sens de la peine, art et prison », LA TERRASSE / Espace d’art de Nanterre, France
2015 “Bello Horizonte”, Bienal de Mercosul, Brasil
2015 “Babel”, Art show, San Jose, Costa Rica
2015 “Freedom Audit”, Art15 London art fair curated Kathleen Soriano, London, GB
2014 “Moving Image NY”, Art fair, New York, USA
2014 “Postales Tras-Atlánticas”, CAAM centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Grand Canaria
2014 “Colección virginia Perez Ratton”, Museo Lado V, San Jose, Costa Rica
2014 « La belle Echappée, » Chateaux de la Drome, France
2014 Museo del banco central, San Jose, Costa Rica
2013 “Movie danse et arts plastiques” centre-art, CACY, Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland
2013 “Miradas insobornables”, MUNTREF museo de arte contemporaneo, Hotel de imigrantes Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 “El Atlas del Imperio”, IILA-Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2013 “La hora garrobo”, LOOP - The Video Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
2013 “We only exist when we communicate”, La nuit européenne des musées, Chateau des Adhémar, Montélimar, France
2012 “Ressucita-me”, Museu Bispo do Rosario, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2012 “Public enemy”, Magda Danysz gallery, Paris, France
2013 Short film festival Hamburg, Hamburg, Allemagne
2013 “We only exist when we communicate”, La nuit européenne des musées, Chateau des Adhémar, Montélimar, France
2012 “Ressucita-me”, Museu Bispo do Rosario, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2012 “Public enemy”, Magda Danysz gallery, Paris, France
2012 “Art Paris” Château des Adhémar, France
2012 “Reflexiones de emancipación », Proyecto de Francisco Papas Fritas, Galería Metropolitana Proyecto, Chile
2012 “Caribbean: Cross Roads of the World” Museo del Barrio, Ney York, USA
2012 “Who More Sci-Fi Than Us”, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2012 “Los del patio”, Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama
2012 “Extra muros”, Bienal Centroamericana, Panamá
2012 “In Dubia Tempora”, Caribbean: Cross Roads of the World, Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
2012 “La Maquina”, exhibition "Who More Sci-Fi Than Us", Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Nederlands
2010 “Rijksakademie OPEN”, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
2010 “Utrópicos”, XXXI Bienal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain
2010 “Máximas de seguridad, El Contrato del Dibujante”, Open Studio of Carlos Garaicoa, Madrid, Spain
2008 “Egresados, Máximas de seguridad”, Muestra International Ventosul, Curitiba, Brasil
2007 “La ruleta de las potencias”, El gusto es mío, Bienarte VI,San José, Costa Rica
2007 “Estrecho dudoso”, Teorética, San José, Costa Rica
RESIDENCES:
2023. CIFO. mid carrier artist price
2010 - 2011 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam,The Nederland
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Collections Latin American Art Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at AustinTe Museum of Destiny
CAAM (Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno)
CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques) in Paris, France
MACBA España
MUSAC España
Museu dragao do Mar, collection, Brasil
MACD Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica
MAC Museo de Arte Costaricense, San Jose Costa Rica.
DAROS Latin america Collection
Cisneros Colección
Agah Ugur collection
Videoinsight® Foundation
Fundación TEORética colection
Museo del Barrio, collection New York, USA
PRESS
2020 https://www.lemanbleu.ch/replay/video.html?VideoID=42131
2020 https://www.arteinformado.com/guia/f/jhafis-quintero-gonzalez-45393
2016 Cultured magazine / Island Fever
2016 Blouingartinfo / 18 artist to watch
2014 Entrevista Jhafis Quintero – SAWB solo SWAB art
2014 Al limite Revista-periodico, web
24|11|2013 I collezionisti che curatori - Artribune (italian)
2|11|2013 Aspettando Artissima/L'arte, opzione indispensabile alla sopravvivenza, nell'opera di Jhafis Quintero. E nelle scelte di sei collezionisti presentati a Videoinsight - Exibart (italian)
27|6|2013 Expériences sensibles à la Biennale - Le Monde (french)
24|6|2013 Art as a way for political, intellectual and social freedom - An interview with Jhafis Quintero for SHAREpro Rijksakademie
14|6|2013 Jhafis Quintero - Representante panameño en la LV edición de la Bienal de Venecia - Ellas, Panama (spanish)
8|6|2013 55a Bienal de Venecia, Entrevista Exclusiva: Jhafis Quintero / Pabellón del Instituto Italo-Latino Americano - Uprising News (spanish)
1|6|2013 Quintero, arte y transgresión - La Prensa, Panama (spanish)
18|5|2013 Jhafis Quintero Venice Biennale - Analix Forever
19|3|2013 Alfons Hug reúne artistas de 16 países latinoamericanos en el pabellón veneciano del IILA - Arte Informado (spanish)
17|2|2013 El arte y el crimen son gemelos - La Estrella (spanish)
14|2|2013 The hunger of Conflict, the relief of Engagement - roots-routes.org (french)
14|2|2013 Jhafis Quintero: no compassion, only passion - Dromemagazine
13|11|2012 Obra de prisión y comunicación - La Estrella (spanish)
17|7|2008 Jhafis Quintero - of Virginia Pérez-Ratton, latinart.com
6|7|2008 Exclusive Interview: Jhafis Quintero Gonzales – in the framework of the exhibition Who More Sci-Fi than Us - Uprising NewsVIDEO FOREVER 32 *DUO*Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, 75003 Paris
CV du collectif artistique Jhafis Quintero & Johanna Barilier/ Collaboration débutée en 2020
2021 Vidéo virtual exhibition/ Persa Del Arte/ Santa Rosa, Chili
2021 « Androgyn » exhibition, Photography/ Picola Parigi/Quistello, Italie
2021 Performance/ Performance Reihe Neue-Oerlikon Festival/ Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Vidéo Collective exhibition Contemporary Art Center/ Dresden, Germany
2021 Vidéo virtual exhibition/ Reactivando Videografias Centro Cultural de España en Roma
2021 Vidéo presentation/ Centro cultural de España, Panama
2021 Vidéo + photography/ Museo de arte contemporaneo Panama
2020 Performance/ Teatro Repower/ Milan, Italia
2020 Interview by Calalina Mena journalist specializing in visual arts/ Santiago, Chili
2020 Exhibition serie Poem (vidéos)/ Volcana/ Verona, Italia
2020 Interview/ Radio Lora/ Zurich, Switzerland
2020 Vidéo + Photography/ Subasta Museum Contemporary Art (MAC)/ Panama City
2020 Performance Live/ Performance Art Festival/ New-York, USA
2020 Reactivando Videografias/ Bienal de la Imagen Movimiento/ Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 Vidéo/ Art Fair/ Art Miami (Online Edition)/ Miami, USA
