Victoria Cabezas

Victoria Cabezas Green (born 1950), is an American photographer, conceptual artist and multimedia artist who has developed her production in Costa Rica.

Biography Victoria Cabezas was born in the United States, but was raised and educated in Costa Rica, and later attended the Pratt Institute in New York City and Florida State University.

Artistic work Cabezas's work revolves around “experimenting with photographic language, as well as investigating the elements of Costa Rican religiousness and its representations in the quotidian sphere.” Another recurring issue in her artistic research is the problem of tropicality experienced and understood from the perspective of Central America. This particular subject is addressed by through her use of banana imagery, seen as the visual icon par excellence to denote the socioeconomic exploitation suffered by the isthmus in the past. The use of the image of bananas in object assemblages also led the artist to make her first works related to the art-object in the region during the eighties. 2018 – Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York 2012 – Propio y Ajeno, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica. 1998-1999 – No todo lo que brilla es oro, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1997 – Obra reciente de Victoria Cabezas, Galería José Luis López Escarré, Teatro Nacional, San José, Costa Rica. 1984 – Mujeres, Gatos y Televisores – Fotografías de Victoria Cabezas, Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, A.C., México, D.F. 1983 – Fotografías de Victoria Cabezas, Museo de Arte Costarricence, San José, Costa Rica. 1983 – Fotografías de Victoria Cabezas, Centro Cultural Costarricence Norteamericano y Escuela de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. 1974 – Victoria Cabezas y Fernán Meza, Centro Cultural Costarricence Norteamericano, San José