Charo Oquet

Charo Oquet

Born in Santo Domingo
Currently based in Miami, FL. United States

Oquet has presented numerous solo exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Bass Museum in Miami Beach; Casal Solleric in Palma de Mallorca; and the Convento de Santo Domingo in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, curated by Antonio Zaya.

His work has also been featured in major international exhibitions, including Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California (2017); GAGA NOW! Art, Race, and Fluidity in the Dominican Republic and Haiti at the Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY, New York (2016); the 1st Asunción Biennial at the Salazar Museum, Paraguay (2015); and Be.Bop: European Body Politics, Spiritual Revolutions & the Scramble for Africa at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin; and Art Labour Archives (2015).

Additional international presentations include the 1st Afri-Perfoma Biennial Live Art Festival in Harare, Zimbabwe (2013); Mami Wata, curated by Henry Drewal at the Fowler Museum at UCLA (2008); Subliminals in Beijing, China (2007); Away at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (2006); After Columbus.com at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (2003); the V Caribbean Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo (2001, 2003); En Ruta PR’02 at M&M Projects, Puerto Rico, curated by Antonio Zaya; the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Gran Canaria, Spain; and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand.