About Nazrina
Nazrina Rodjan
b. 1990 | Rotterdam
Nazrina Rodjan is a Dutch-Surinamese visual artist of Hindustani (indentured Indian) descent. Rodjan was born and raised in Rotterdam and holds a bachelor’s degree (2016) from St. Joost School of Art and Design. Rodjan primarily works in graphite and oil. Her work represents themes of migration, queerness and diaspora, and a significant body of her work has focused on portraiture: portraits of people of color, ancestral photographs and colonial postcards. She is committed to visually representing marginalized and invisible stories using traditional painting techniques.
Photo: Kevita Junior
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
2024
Indian Arrival / Indentured Survival
Oyate Group | New York, NY
05/05/2024
Group Show curated by Raqeeba Zaman
Dalit Dreamlands: Towards an Anti-Caste Future
Oakland Asian Cultural Center | Oakland, CA
04/06/2024 - 06/09/2024
Group Show curated by Manu Kaur
2023
Kala Pani: 1873-2023
Ballon Rouge | Rotterdam, The Netherlands
11/10/2023 - 12/02/2023
Solo Show
A Sense of Brown
CBK Zuidoost | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
09/14/2023 - 11/18/2023
Group Show curated by Devika Chotoe
Remnants of Another
Twelve Gates Arts | Philadelphia, PA
05/05/2023 - 06/24/2023
Group Show curated by Suzanne Persard
Social Memory: Sites of Remembrance
Blackburn 20/20 Gallery | New York, NY
03/16/2023 - 04/15/2023
Group Show curated by Shilpi Chandra
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Calcutta Brieven (Calcutta Letters) | The Hague
2021 When we grow up | The Hague
2021 Indernet Festival | Köln
2019 ONZE TORI | The Black Archives | Amsterdam
2019 Asian Woman Festival | Birmingham
2019 Into the Light | Studio 13 | Amsterdam
2019 TEDxUCL Women ‘DISRUPT’ | London
2019 FEATURE | Compagnietheater | Amsterdam
2018 DIVERGE Festival | TENT | Rotterdam