Representative work by Jaider Esbell
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Artist

Jaider Esbell

1979–2021 · Macuxi / Brazilian

  • Universidade Federal de Roraima

Jaider Esbell was a Macuxi artist, writer and curator whose paintings and activism helped transform the visibility of Indigenous contemporary art in Brazil. His work combined Makuxi cosmology, environmental struggle, colonial critique and intense chromatic abstraction.

Painting; drawing; writing; curating

Major Works

  • 2016 onwardEntidades
  • 2019–20A Guerra dos Kanaimés
  • 2018Carta ao Velho Mundo
  • 2010sRuku
  • 2018Makunaima, o meu avô em mim
  • 2010sTree of All Knowledge
  • 2010sIndigenous Cosmology Paintings
  • 2010sKanaimé series
  • 2010sEnvironmental Works
  • 2020Na Terra Sem Males

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