In the late 1990s, at age 18, Jaider Esbell left the region that now belongs to the Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous lands in Roraima to live in Boa Vista. In the state capital, he worked for nearly two decades as an electrician at a state-owned company until in 2016 he quit public employment to live exclusively from his art. That same year, he also won the Pipa Prize, one of the top visual arts prizes in the country, in the popular vote category. Currently, the artist, writer and cultural producer of the Macuxi ethnic group runs his studio and the Jaider Esbell Gallery of Contemporary Indian Art in his own home. In the collective space he exhibits his own work, which transits between graphic abstractions and the daily life of the villages, as well as works by indigenous artists such as Joseca Yanomami, Mario Flores, Carmézia Emiliano, Isaias Milano, Amazoner Okaba and Bartô.
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Jaider Esbell Contemporary Indigenous Art Gallery
Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil


The Jaider Esbell Gallery of Contemporary Indigenous Art houses work by artists from various ethnic groups in northern Brazil. Photo: Publicity/Jorge Macêdo
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Palabra
Museo del Barro
Asunción, Paraguay
01 March - 31 March 2021


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COLECTIVA_20 Encuentros y desafíos
Beatriz Gil Galeria
Carracas, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Colección de Arte Contemporáneo del Museo Amparo (Online)
Museo Amparo
Mexico DF, Mexico
01 March - 31 March 2021


Festivals
Festival de cine Hecho por Mujeres (Online)
Centro Cultural de España en Lima
Lima, Peru
01 March - 10 March 2021


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Ñuble. Retratos de la Región
Centro Cultural La Moneda
Santiago, Chile
08 October - 31 March 2021


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…and I resumed the struggle
The Olympia Gallery
Kingston, Jamaica
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Race, Myth, Art and Justice (Online)
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
New York, United States
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Descendance - Ariel René Jackson
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Seattle, United States
01 March - 31 March 2021


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Uma História Natural das Ruínas
Pivô
São Paulo, Brazil
20 February - 17 April 2021
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