We are concerned with a class of singularly perturbed quasilinear Schrödinger equations of the following form: \[ - {\varepsilon ^2}\Delta u - {\varepsilon ^2}\Delta ({u^2})u + V(x)u = h(u),{\text{ }}u > 0{\text{ in }}{\mathbb{R}^N}, \] where $\varepsilon $ is a small positive parameter, $N \ge 3$ and the nonlinearity $h$ is of critical growth. We construct a family of positive solutions ${u_\varepsilon } \in {H^1}({\mathbb{R}^N})$ of the above problem which concentrates around local minima of $V$ as $\varepsilon \to 0$ under certain assumptio...