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NEIL FORTUNE
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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

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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



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Colorful Ribs and Guts of Adam,  Gray Contemporary Houston Texas
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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
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​​​Soft Art,  1/18 October 2020 SBK KNSM /Loods 6 Amsterdam 
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Matter, Gray Contemporary in Houston, TX, US


The Personal is Political, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam 
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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
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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 
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Glazen Huis Amstelpark, Amsterdam

​Paramaribo Biennale, Paramaribo

Roots of migration at Museum Fort Zeelandia,  Paramaribo


Private collector & collection in NL,USA, SR



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 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 






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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 )
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