Quinsy Gario

Quinsy Gario is a visual and performance artist from St. Maarten/Soualiga and Curaçao. His most well known work, Zwarte Piet is Racisme, critiqued the general understanding of the racist Dutch figure and practice of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). He has a background in gender and postcolonial studies and is a recent graduate of the Master Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. He was awarded the Royal Academy Master Thesis Prize 2017, the Black Achievement Month 2016 Black Excellence Award, the Amsterdam Fringe Festival Silver Award 2015, the Kerwin Award 2014 and the Hollandse Nieuwe 12 Theatermakers Prize 2011. He is a board member of De Appel, the Keti Koti Tafel foundation, and The One Minutes, a member of the pan-African artist collective State of L3, and a BAK fellow.

Quinsy is part of Be.Bop 2018