Born in Guyana in 1983 Neil Fortune lives and works in Amsterdam. Fortune started his former studies at Nola Hatterman Art Academy in Suriname. There he was trained as a painter before moving to Amsterdam to study Fine Arts at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in fine arts. Currently a part time sculpture instructor at Gerrit Rietveld Academy. In recent years Fortune has been the subject of groups and solo exhibitions at institutions such as M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, (Belgium), TENT Rotterdam (The Netherland), The annual Summer Show at kunstMuseum Den Haag (Netherlands),  In 2017 his works were nominated winners at the annual Summer Show hosted at Nieuw Dakota and Francis Boeske Project (Netherlands). Galerie 23 hosted his first and second solo exhibitions in 2013-2016. Fortune’s latest solo exhibition, Distorted Reality, was exhibited in the Polar Room at W139 in Amsterdam. While his first international group and solo exhibition Colorful Ribs and Guts of Adam opened at Gray Contemporary, Houston Texas (US), and at Dedee shattuk Gallery in Westport Massachusetts US. Fortune is currently creating new project for  upcoming exhibition in the Netherlands for 2023. 

 

 



 

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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

Invited as a guest instructor at ArtEZ University of the Art, Zwolle, NL

 

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,

Liminality, Summer residency at PARK Tilburg.

TRACES OF A CONVERSATION, Residency at PLANB, Amsterdam (NOORD)

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

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ONGEKEND ZEEDIJK currently on view in the etalage at Zeedijk, Amsterdam 

1e Edition Summer exhibition at Grove Collective London, UK

ART ROTTERDAM with Josilda da Conceicao Gallery Amsterdam 

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
Roots of migration at Museum Fort Zeelandia,  Paramaribo

 

 

Private collector – collection in NL, USA, SR

 

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

MISTER MOTLEY

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 )