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Visual Artist
Born in 1991, Willemstad, Curaçao Based in Rotterdam since 2011
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Graduated from WDKA, BA Fine Art , 2018
Graduated from Dutch Art Institute, MA in Art and Design, DAI Art Praxis2020-2022

PERFORMANCE
2023 Polyglossia: Island of Babel, Stedelijk, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Kontemplashon di Multiplisidat den kontekstonan, El pran projecten(Online platform)
2020 Distansia Distansiá, UniArte Caribbean Art Platform, Carthagenastraat 18, Curaçao
2020 ANA-LIZE (spoken word) ( exhibition G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children), Het Nieuwe Instituut Online, live.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en
2020 Oshé Otura Maybe( exhibition G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children), Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 “Nèt Mei Mei”, Witte de With Contemporary Art/ Melly, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 “Mansa”, Framer Framed Molenwijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 “Adora Yemayá Tapá” apprentice Master (kunst podium T), TAC, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2018 “My Broken Tongue”, Galerie Lecq, Rotterdam, Netherland
2018 “Di tera nos a bin, di tera nos ta bai II”, HNI, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 “untitled” WdKA Graduation show, Blaak 10, Rotterdam, The Netherland
2018 “Di tera nos a bin, di tera nos ta bai” Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 “It’s Like A Sickness” , Bike Parking Lot Blaak, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 “Untiteld - Performance”, Mono, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 “Protect my Tambú from all them Evil Eyes”, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015 “Dutch media on “ Antillianen” ”, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

SOLO EXHIBITION
2022 (PLANT-IN)-Different-Soil, Kunst ruimte H47 (VHDG), Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

RESIDENCY
2021 VHDG, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2020 June-July, UniArte, Otrobanda, Curaçao

GROUP EXHIBITION
2021 Ekperimentando ku bida, maske bo pinta mi pretu (Experimenting with life, even if you paint me black), Throuough the window, Online (instagram) Exhibition
2020 Portals (sculpture/writing/poems)
2020 Fragment of a poem...you can’t understand, DeSchool, Amsterdam
2019 Partisipant in “Who am I Becoming” (project by Natalia Papaeva, Yasunori Kawamatsu and Nia Konstantinova), Worm S/ash Gallery, Rotterdam,The Netherlands
2019 Part of installation “Identidat Tapá” apprentice Master (kunst podium T), TAC, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2018 “awe” out of the seri Kuaresma, Islas Inútiles, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 “Untiteld - Performance”, Mono , Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 “The pressure of power”, Ping⌿Pong exhibition, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Seri “Nature”, Open atelier route 2011, Willemstad, Curaçaos

STREETPAINTING
2011 International street painting festival “colors of willemstad”, Willemstad, Curaçao
2010 International street painting festival “colors of willemstad”, Willemstad, Curaçao

NOMINATIONS
2018 WdKA Maaskantprijs 2018
2018 Willem de Kooning Academy Drempelprijs 2018

PUBLICATIONS
2018 Metropoli M Eindexamens 2018, cover Photo + Article NAJENDRA (NASH) CALDERA pag.35
2018 Metropolis M. com, “Graduation Shows 2018: Willem de Kooning Academie”