About
JJ Ribi (Jean Jaques Ribi) is an Italian-born visual artist of Swiss and Panamanian heritage whose practice has developed across Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Working as a visual composer, he constructs images through the recombination of photography, drawing, digital media, artificial intelligence and found visual material, assembling fragments from multiple realities into complex visual ecosystems that operate between myth, memory, technology and perception.
Active internationally since the mid-2000s, he has exhibited in museums, biennials, galleries and art fairs across the Americas and Europe — including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, and the Bienal de Artes Visuales del Istmo Centroamericano. His work has been covered by ArtNexus and by the press in Panama, Switzerland and the United States.
This page is the permanent public record of exhibitions, press and institutional documents. Entries marked with sources link to the original publication or document. Entries marked “Artist’s record” come from the artist’s own exhibition history and are awaiting a published source.
Current cycle · 2026
The Impermanent BodyA Theory of Field Integration
A closed cycle of nine large-format works, including one triptych. The works hold the human image at the moment it blooms, when the self appears as a temporary phenomenon of its surroundings — identity gathering into form, figures rising, peaking, and dissolving back into the whole.
- WorksNine, including one triptych
- Edition3 + 1 artist proof
- CertificationSigned certificate of authenticity
- FormatsDiasec face-mount · ChromaLuxe on aluminium
Exhibition history
Showing all 33 exhibitions
2023
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Solo exhibition
Tokenized
The Americas Collection · Coral Gables, Miami, USA
Digital art, tokenisation and compositional practice.
2018
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Solo exhibition
Velocità è Bellezza — Can a Ferrari with its Diverse Components Become Art?
TAG Art Gallery · Lugano, Switzerland
Speed, beauty and mechanical form.
2017
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Summer Show
Carré Doré Gallery · Monaco
2016
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Solo exhibitionArtist’s record
Minimal Mola
Makoto · Panama City, Panama
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
The Eva Project
LA Women’s Center · Los Angeles, USA
2015
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Solo exhibition
Temples
Galería Jerónimo, Casco Antiguo · Panama City, Panama
Figures in meditation and images of temples, drawn from travels in India and Thailand and built from the textures and colours of photographs. Weekly evening programme at the gallery, including a guided yoga and meditation session and a talk on art as spiritual practice. Closed 2 September 2015.
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Solo exhibitionArtist’s record
Molas
Macro Fest · Panama City, Panama
2014
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Solo exhibitionArtist’s record
The Eva Project
Le Méridien · Panama City, Panama
2013
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Art fair
ArtSpot + Spectrum Miami
with The Americas Collection · Miami, USA
Satellite fair during Miami Art Week.
2012
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Group exhibition
20th Anniversary Exhibition
The Americas Collection · Miami, USA
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Solo exhibitionArtist’s record
RealArt
The Americas Collection · Miami, USA
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Art fairArtist’s record
Pinta Art Fair
New York, USA
2011
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Museum survey
00–10: Cuenta Progresiva. Arte de la primera década del siglo XXI en Panamá
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá (MAC) · Panama City, Panama
Survey of 23 artists who defined art in Panama in 2000–2010, curated by Reinier Rodríguez; selection required documented participation in prizes and biennials during the decade. Two works and a bilingual biography on pp. 54–55 of the catalogue.
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Museum group exhibition
Fotoseptiembre
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá (MAC) · Panama City, Panama
Photography exhibition with Ellen Sandor — pioneer of digital art and founder of (art)n, Chicago — and Sergio Veranes.
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Gallery exhibition
Dreams Come True
Galería Arteconsult · Panama City, Panama
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Bab-Alei
Weil Art Gallery · Panama City, Panama
2010
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Museum exhibitionArtist’s record
Group exhibition
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá · Panama City, Panama
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Solo exhibitionArtist’s record
Brands
Rolex Masters / BNP · Monaco
2009
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Museum exhibition & auction
Auction 09
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) · Long Beach, California, USA
Sandman / Hombre de arena (2008), Lot 49, courtesy of The Americas Collection. Exhibited in the MOLAA galleries 5 September – 16 October 2009 ahead of the museum’s 7th annual auction on 17 October 2009, in a sale that included works by Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Rufino Tamayo, Antonio Seguí, José Bedia and José Luis Cuevas. See the lot record.
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Art fair 2009–10
Houston Art Fair
with The Americas Collection · Houston, Texas, USA
Presented by The Americas Collection alongside Félix Ángel, Omar d’León, Linda Kohen and Baruj Salinas.
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Solo exhibitionArtist’s record
Brands
Galerie GAM · Monaco
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Solo exhibitionArtist’s record
Brands
Victoria Design · Porto Cervo, Italy
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Body of Works
The Americas Collection · Miami, USA
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Precious Jewels
The Americas Collection · Miami, USA
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Fotoseptiembre
Galería Arteconsult · Panama City, Panama
2008
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International biennial
BAVIC VI — Sixth Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American Isthmus
Museo para la Identidad Nacional (MIN) · Tegucigalpa, Honduras
One of six artists selected to represent Panama, in an exhibition of 72 works by 36 artists from six countries. Jury: Félix Ángel (IDB Cultural Center, Washington), Rodolfo Kronfle (independent curator, Ecuador) and Julián Zugazagoitia (El Museo del Barrio, New York). The work is reviewed by name in ArtNexus no. 72.
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Eclectic Photography
The Americas Collection · Miami, USA
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Plasma Art with LG
Art de Griss Gallery · Panama City, Panama
2007
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Solo exhibition 2007–08
Re-nacimiento
Casa Góngora, San Felipe · Panama City, Panama
Twelve photographs interpreting the human body and nature — among them Woodman, made after a three-day passage through Costa Rica’s national parks, and works on branded clothing imprinted on skin. On view until 7 January 2008.
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Mestizaje
Maison de l’Art · Panama City, Panama
2006
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Museum exhibitionArtist’s record
Coca-Cola Prize Exhibition
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá · Panama City, Panama
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Showcase of Latin America
The Americas Collection · Miami, USA
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Group exhibitionArtist’s record
Choice of the Year
Galería Arteconsult · Panama City, Panama
Work in museum auction
Lot 49 · Auction 09 · 17 October 2009
Sandman / Hombre de arena
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) · Long Beach, California
- Year
- 2008
- Medium
- Manipulated photography on paper
- Edition
- 3/5
- Size
- 44 × 33 in. (111.7 × 83.8 cm)
- Courtesy
- The Americas Collection
- Estimate
- $3,000–5,000
- Exhibited
- MOLAA galleries, 5 September – 16 October 2009
Press & publications
- 11 Dec 2007
- 2009
- Jan 2011
La Prensa (Panamá)
Década de arte - Oct 2011
Día a Día (Panamá)
Vive el Arte - 18 Aug 2015
- 18 Aug 2015
La Prensa (Panamá), print edition
Arte y espiritualidad - 2023
- 2023
Coral Gables Magazine
A Night on the Town: Gallery Night - 5 Apr 2025
Ticino Live (Switzerland)
Cento Strati Fotografia: Intervista Jean Jacques Ribi
Documents
MOLAA Auction 09 — catalogue excerpt
Cover, acknowledgements, Lot 49 and the artist index. 4 pages.
MOLAA Auction 09 — full catalogue
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, 2009. 57 pages.
00–10: Cuenta Progresiva — exhibition catalogue
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, 2011. Pages 54–55.
Gallery representation
- The Americas Collection — Coral Gables, Miami, USA. Presented the work at MOLAA Auction 09, the Houston Art Fair, ArtSpot + Spectrum Miami and the solo exhibition Tokenized (2023).
- Weil Art Gallery — Panama City, Panama. Holds works including commemorative medal designs for the Panama Canal Centennial.
- TAG Art Gallery — Lugano, Switzerland.
Bodies of work — the elemental poles
The practice is organised not by style or subject but by frequency. Each pole is a gravitational ecosystem in which archetypes take form, carrying its own myth and its own pulse. The constant ritual across all of them: disassemble, recompose, transcend.
- PR1M0The flesh and the earth; the body as vessel, ancestry inscribed, a totem of the first oath.
- FLUXWorlds collapsing, myths recombined; entropy as renewal, fragments reassembling into new constellations.
- ICONMasks and mirrors; identity hardened into ritual, surface charged as sign.
- ARIABreath collapsed into form; the invisible tuned into presence, silence transmuted into symbol.
Name
The artist’s legal name is registered under Swiss law as Jean Jaques Ribi. Exhibition records, museum catalogues and press published before the change — including the MOLAA Auction 09 catalogue (2009), ArtNexus no. 72 (2009) and La Prensa (2015) — appear under the earlier spelling Jean Jacques Ribi. Both refer to the same artist.