EMPTY LABEL
name
Denilson Baniwa
description
Born in Barcelos, in the interior of the Amazon, Denilson Baniwa is an indigenous member of the Baniwa people. As an activist for the rights of indigenous peoples, since 2015 he has given lectures, workshops and courses, acting strongly in the south and southeast regions of Brazil and also in Bahia. In 2018, he held the exhibition “Terra Brasilis: agro é não pop!”, at the Art Gallery of the Universidade Federal Fluminense, also in Niterói, as part of the project “Brasil: A Margem”, promoted by the university. In the same year, he participated in the artistic residency of the fourth edition of the Corpus Urbis Festival, held in Oiapoque, Amapá. He has been in exhibitions at CCBB, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, CCSP, Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Museu Afro Brasil, MASP, MAR and Bienal de Sidney. In addition to being a visual artist, Denilson is also an advertiser, articulator of digital culture and hacking, contributing to the construction of indigenous imagery in various media such as magazines, films and TV series. In 2019 he won the Pipa Prize in the online category and in 2021 he was one of the winners nominated by the jury.
gender
masculino
organizer
