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About: Neil Fortune's works embraces drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, public-performances. He sets up environments to question conventions; re-thinking them by creating objects and producing situations. Inherent to his practice, the audience becomes part of the work, which may often creates an eruption within the frame of an exhibition context. Through his haptic sculptural work he generates moments that will allow you to slow down, to rethink your role and position towards his installations and the spaces they inhabit. Fortune environments create proposition that is not clearly defined. For within the formulation of these environments new possibilities arise. With Fortune current solo exhibition Distorted Reality in the Polar Room at W139, he creates a stage built-up from a number of objects and situation that engage us in an ambivalent relationship to their surroundings. At times they may feel uncertain as to their material quality or origin. Distorted Reality emphasises the added value of evocative and physical experiences, engaging you in a dialogue with the works.....Read on


Selected exhibition: Neil Fortune Dutch Guyana artist born in Georgetown Guyana work, live in Amsterdam. Fortune works has been the subject of group exhibitions at MUHKA Antwerp; TENT Rotterdam;  Summer show at Gemeente Museum Den Haag; Galerie 23 the host of his first and second solo exhibitions in Amsterdam; C&H-Gallery Amsterdam; Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam; More recent his works has been nominated winners of 2017 Summer show, hosted by Nieuw Dakota and Francis Boeske Project in Amsterdam. Fortune's recent solo exhibition: Distorted Reality​ was hosted by polar room at W139 in Amsterdam​.

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Education
2007-2011    Gerrit Rietveld Academy B.F.A, Scholarship Amsterdam

2002-2006   Nola Hatterman Art Academy (Paramaribo, SR) - Diploma: Cum laude



Award 
2017  Winner of the Summer Show, Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam

Public performance "Neil & Strangers" 
2010-2018  Bilbao, Moengo, Venice, New York, London Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Koln, Rome, Paramaribo,
Bangkok, Oslo, Lanzarote, Athens, ....​ongoing 

Solo exhibition

2018 Distorted Reality ​​​W139 polar room, Amsterdam
2016 Friction in The Space Between Gallery 23, Amsterdam
2013 What is on the other side of the moon?  Gallery 23, Amsterdam
                                     

Selected group exhibition

2018 How One Thing Leads to another,  Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam 
2018 Moengo Festival Triennial Tembe fu libi #2, Suriname, Exhibition was supported by Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2018 ​Depth over Distance, VOX-POP Creative space of UVA, Amsterdam
2018 The sky is no man’s land, at Adyen (new office building) Amsterdam
2018 On Material Space project, Amsterdam 
2018 Textile Contemporary Manifactogaller, Amsterdam

2017  A World Away winners edition Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam
2017  30-Jaar CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
2017 Open Ateliers Nieuw market VOX-POP, Amsterdam
2017  Summer  Show Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam

2016  Zuiver Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
2016  Summershow Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam

2015  Summershow Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam
2015  Tekening op Tafel buiksloter kerk, Amsterdam    
   
2014  Light summer expo Gemeente Museum, Den Haag
 
2014  AMFAD Amsterdam fashion, art & design, Amsterdam



2013  Remy Jungerman and Friends, Studio Remy Jungerman, Amsterdam            
2013  Gallery artist-guest C&H art space, Amsterdam



2012  Local Hero, CBK ZUID OOST, Amsterdam          
2012  Carr-Fortune-Holst VS. Hercules and the TETO PROJECT, Amsterdam

2011  Hell and High water at Zeemanshuis, Amsterdam  
           
2011  Storage Space No.1, 2,3,4 at Heesterveld, Amsterdam
           
2011  Graduation exhibition Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

2010  Lonely at the top: Parallel Doors of Perception, MUHKA Antwerp 
           
2010  Paramaribo Perspectives’ at TENT, Rotterdam     
           
2010  Modernity and Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic’, Smart Project Space Amsterdam 
2010  Exhibition ‘OK’ at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam


2010  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://vimeo.com/8369904
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2009 Glazen Huis Amstelpark, Amsterdam
2007  Paramaribo Biennale, Paramaribo

Collections: 
Private collector NL,USA, SU
CBK ZUIDOOST Amsterdam

Commissions
Sculpture in public space | teaching & workshops for schools
2017 Wereldmakers, Bijlmer park theater en CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
2014 Sculpture in public space, HAVO klas 3 OSB Bijlmer, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
2012 Wall painting, Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam
2012 Curated: “The Window Show”, Heesterveld Creative Community, Amsterdam 


Publications - Media
Books + Magazine + Website
2016 De grote Amsterdamse kalender
2015 I AM NOT DOING ANYTHING UNTIL I FEEL THE NEED, Jaarloze kalender, Amsterdam
2012 MISTER MOTLEY, Nr 32 p. 182 – 186
2010 Interview NRC Handelsblad (Een nieuwe generatie Surinaamse kunstenaars)
2010 Conversation on Paramaribo Perspectives TENT, Rotterdam
2009 Paramaribo SPANG (Hedendaagse beeldende kunst in Suriname )