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. She spends her time painting between the Netherlands and the U.S.
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