Vicente Razo
Mexico
Visual artist and teacher. His work moves within the practices of noise collecting, legal sculpture, institutional revolutionary and administrative poetry. Creator of Museo Salinas, founding member of Sonido Apokalitzin and Instituto de Liderazgo en Artistas. He is a public-school art teacher and avantgarde sonidero. He has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores and a Fulbright-Garcia Robles scholar. His work has been presented at PS1 Contemporary Art, South London Gallery, the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires among other venues. Razo’s work is part of various institutions such as the collections of the University Museum of Contemporary Art and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Razo's work has been discussed in several books and publications, including Utopia and Contemporary Art (Hatje/Cantz), Museum Frictions (Duke University Press) and La era de la discrepancia: arte y cultura visual en México, 1968-1997 (UNAM-Turner). In 2003, Smart Art Press published his book La Guía Oficial del Museo Salinas, with a prologue by Carlos Monsiváis.