Neil Fortune (Georgetown Guyana, 1983) lives and works 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 Suriname & Dutch government to study Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy; University of Applied Sciences, Fine Arts and Design in Amsterdam. In recent years Fortune has been the subject of group and solo exhibitions at international institutions as M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, (Belgium), TENT Rotterdam (The Netherland), The annual Summer Show at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (The Netherlands), C & H-Gallery Amsterdam. In 2017 his works was 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 at Dedee Shattuck gallery in Westport Massachusetts (US). And a solo exhibition Colorful Ribs and Guts of Adam at Gray Contemporary: Houston Texas (US). Fortune is currently working on new projects for upcoming group exhibitions that includes Art Rotterdam, SBK; Loods6, Soft Art 1-18 October 2020,
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Gerrit Rietveld Academy B.A Fine Art, Amsterdam Nola Hatterman Art Academy Paramaribo - (Graduated Cum laude ) Sculpture instructor at Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam Winner of the Summer Show, Nieuw Dakota + Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam Bilbao, Mongo, Venice, New York, London Barcelona, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Koln, Rome, Paramaribo,Bangkok, Oslo, Lanzarote, Athens, ....ongoing Colorful Ribs and Guts of Adam, Gray Contemporary Houston Texas (USA) 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 ART ROTTERDAM, expected in 1-4 July Soft Art, 1/18 October 2020 SBK KNSM /Loods 6 Amsterdam Matter, Gray Contemporary in Houston, TX, US The Personal is Political, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, 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, M HKA Antwerp Paramaribo Perspectives’ at TENT, Rotterdam Modernity and Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic’, Smart Project Space Amsterdam Exhibition ‘OK’ at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://vimeo.com/8369904 Glazen Huis Amstelpark, Amsterdam Paramaribo Biennale, Paramaribo Roots of migration at Museum Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo Private collector & collection in NL,USA, SR Artwork in public space Covid19 testlocation Noord, NieuwDakota, Gemeente 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 Textil Plus: 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 ) |