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Celia Vásquez Yui has distinguished her practice through astonishing creative innovations, exploring and expanding the zoomorphic features of the style, and beyond.
About Celia Vásquez Yui
Celia Vásquez Yui is an artist, Indigenous rights activist, and political representative of the Shipibo-Conibo People of Peru. Born in the Amazonian city of Pucallpa in 1960, she began creating alongside her mother, an eminent ceramicist and descendant of the polychrome horizon cultures, whose archeological record throughout the Amazon dates back thousands of years. Balancing a cultural imperative for inventiveness with the constraints of traditional style, Celia Vásquez Yui has distinguished her practice through astonishing creative innovations, exploring and expanding the zoomorphic features of the style, and beyond. Not only does Celia Vásquez Yui work alongside her daughter, Diana Ruiz Vásquez—an intergenerational collaboration that adds another expansive dimension to the work through which two bodies and two minds merge to finish each other’s designs—but she also has the custom to cut off a lock of hair from the head of her youngest apprentice in order to make from scratch the paintbrushes of different sizes she uses to paint the designs. This way, her kené pathways channel into a pledge for the future too.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Salon 94, New York; C L E A R I N G, NY; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, Proyecto Amil, Lima, Peru.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK; Outsider Art Fair, New York; and the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center, Lima. Celia Vásquez Yui’s work belongs to the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca.
Celia Vásquez Yui CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Indigenous Futurism, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
El Concejo de las Espíritus-Madre de los Animales, Proyectoamil, Lima, Peru
2023
The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals, C L E A R I N G, New York, NY
2022
The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals, Salon 94, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
In Minor Keys, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2025
Yanantin. Tensiones y equilibrio, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru
2024
Ayahuasca & Art of the Amazon, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
2023
Shamanic Visions: Ayahuasca Arts in the Peruvian Amazon, Musee du quai Branly, Paris
O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2022
Maya maya bainkin. Avanzando dando vueltas. Arte y futuro Shipibo, The Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center, Lima
Los ríos pueden existir sin aguas pero no sin orillas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2026
BIENNALE ARTE 2026: THE INVITED ARTISTS, La Biennale di Venezia
2022
EYE-TO-EYE WITH CELIA VASQUEZ YUI’S ANIMAL SPIRITS: INTERSPECIES INTERFACING AT A NEW CERAMIC SCULPTURE EXHIBIT, MOLD
Andrea Scott, Celia Vasquez Yui, The New Yorker
2020
The Outsider Art Fair 2020: 7 Must-See Exhibits, The New York Times
COLLECTIONS
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
The Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru
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