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Neil Fortune (1983) is a Georgetown Guyana-born, Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. Fortune started his former studies at the Nola Hatterman Art Academy in Paramaribo Suriname where he was trained in drawing and painting before moving to the Netherlands with a scholarship offered by the Dutch government to study Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In recent years, Fortune’s works have been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at institutions such as MUHKA Antwerp (Belgium), TENT Rotterdam (The Netherland), Summer Show Gemeente Museum Den Haag (The Netherlands), C & H-Gallery Amsterdam. In 2017 his works were nominated winners of the Summer Show hosted at Nieuw Dakota and Francis Boeske Project (The Netherlands). Galerie23 (The Netherlands), was the host of his first and second solo exhibitions in 2013 and 2016. Fortune's latest solo exhibition, Distorted Reality, was exhibited in the Polar Room at W139 in Amsterdam. While his most resend group exhibition Dutch Colorist 2019 currently on shown at Dedee Shattuck gallery in Westport Massachusetts (USA). Fortune is working on new projects for his upcoming group and solo exhibition in (The Netherlands). And solo exhibition: Colorful Ribs and Guts of Adam, Gray Contemporary: Houston Texas (USA).
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2007-2011 2002-2006 Currently Award 2017 Street performances 2010-2018 Solo exhibition 2019 2018 2016 2013 Group exhibition / selected 2019 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2017 2016 2016 2015 2015 2014 2014 2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2007 Collections: Commissions 2017 2014 2012 2012 Publications - Media Books + Magazine + Website 2016 2015 2012 2010 2010 2009 |
Education Gerrit Rietveld Academy B.A Fine Art, Amsterdam (Scholarship) Nola Hatterman Art Academy Paramaribo - (Graduated Cum laude ) Working part time as sculpture instructor at Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam Winner of the Summer Show, Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam Bilbao, Moengo, Venice, New York, London Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Koln, Rome, Paramaribo,Bangkok, Oslo, Lanzarote, Athens, ....ongoing Colorful Ribs and Guts of Ada, Gray Contemporary Houston Texas Distorted Reality W139 polar room, Amsterdam Friction in The Space Between Gallery 23, Amsterdam What is on the other side of the moon? Gallery 23, Amsterdam Dutch Colorist, Dedee Shattuck gallery in Westport Massachusetts (USA) How One Thing Leads to another, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam Moengo Festival Triennial Tembe fu libi #2, Suriname, Exhibition was supported by Mondriaan Fonds, NL Depth over Distance, VOX-POP Creative space of UVA, Amsterdam The sky is no man’s land, at Adyen (new office building) Amsterdam On Material Space project, Amsterdam Textile Contemporary Manifactogaller, Amsterdam A World Away winners edition Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam 30-Jaar CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam Open Ateliers Nieuw market VOX-POP, Amsterdam Summer Show Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam Zuiver Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam Summershow Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam Summershow Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam Tekening op Tafel buiksloter kerk, Amsterdam Light summer expo Gemeente Museum, Den Haag AMFAD Amsterdam fashion, art & design, Amsterdam Remy Jungerman and Friends, Studio Remy Jungerman, Amsterdam Gallery artist-guest C&H art space, Amsterdam Local Hero, CBK ZUID OOST, Amsterdam Carr-Fortune-Holst VS. Hercules and the TETO PROJECT, Amsterdam Hell and High water at Zeemanshuis, Amsterdam Storage Space No.1, 2,3,4 at Heesterveld, Amsterdam Graduation exhibition Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam Lonely at the top: Parallel Doors of Perception, MUHKA Antwerp Paramaribo Perspectives’ at TENT, Rotterdam Modernity and Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic’, Smart Project Space Amsterdam Exhibition ‘OK’ at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam 2010 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://vimeo.com/8369904 Glazen Huis Amstelpark, Amsterdam Paramaribo Biennale, Paramaribo Private collector NL,USA, SU CBK ZUIDOOST Amsterdam Wereldmakers, Bijlmer park theater en CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam Sculpture in public space, HAVO klas 3 OSB Bijlmer, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam Wall painting, Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam Curated: “The Window Show”, Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam De grote Amsterdamse kalender I AM NOT DOING ANYTHING UNTIL I FEEL THE NEED, Jaarloze kalender, Amsterdam MISTER MOTLEY, Nr 32 p. 182 – 186 Interview NRC Handelsblad (Een nieuwe generatie Surinaamse kunstenaars) Conversation on Paramaribo Perspectives TENT, Rotterdam Paramaribo SPANG (Hedendaagse beeldende kunst in Suriname ) |
