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Born: Ras Mosera on the Caribbean state of St. Lucia.

Living and working in St.Martin, French West Indies.

EDUCATION: Autodidact

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST :
“MY work is an interpretation of the Caribbean irony which is in abundance, because of our complex historical background, I believe in the search of our whimsical self, which are the rights of a people.
The Artist should be seen as a healer of a people’s psyche…And in a region which needs therapeutic application, I am aware that the Arts are one of the most powerful and important therapeutic activities, especially if the Artist is aware of such potential” Mosera.

by Andy Gross, journalist

His sophisticated, expressionistic works hang in private collections and galleries and museums in Israel, Holland, Sweden, France, Moscow and New York. He is acknowledged to be at the vanguard of a regional school of painting that is seeking to become international, to change preconceived notions of what Caribbean art should and should not be. 


by Ria Uterloo, freelance writer

A bold contemporary expressionist, abstract in tendency, Mosera nevertheless brings a strong sense of structure to his canvases… An artist of great knowledge for color and surfaces, he can take a color captured on a certain moment of the day and reincarnate it on his canvasses, by surrounding and mixing it with surprising and incoherent fragments of the African Caribbean World. In his watercolors Mosera reveals a wide range of artistic knowledge, from gentle color effects, such as bleeding and to the brush sense on his paper. A single exhibition provides the opportunity for only a glimpse of his scope…

Overall, no period of Mosera’s work is paramount but each period, color, serenity and composition plays a singular role.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS :

2003 The Inner Gallery. Rodney Bay, St. Lucia 

2003 Centre des Arts & la Culture. Place des Matyrs, Guadeloupe

2002 The Source. Axum Art Cafe, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

2001 Maximum Mosera. Axum Pacifica, Maui. Hawaii

1999 Foreign Exchange. Mosera Fine Art Gallery, St. Maarten, N.A.

1997 Jazz Virgin. Snooty Agouti Reduit, St. Lucia

1996 Snooty Agouti. Reduit, St. Lucia

1995 Black History Month. 1 day exhibit at Milton Peters College, SXM

1994 ABN AMRO’s 25th Anniversary. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1994 Bibliothèque Municipale. Marigot, St. Martin, French West Indies

1993 Philipsburg Jubilee Library. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1992 Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1992 Philipsburg Jubilee Library. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1989 Calabash Art Gallery. Phillipsburg St. Maarten, N.A.

1989 Gallery Art Present. Marigot, St. Martin, F.W.I.

1988 Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1987 Philipsburg Jubilee Library. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1986 Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1986 Culural Center. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1986 Central Library. Castries, St. Lucia

1985 Philipsburg Jubilee Library. Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, N.A.

1985 Le Poisson d’Or Gallery. Marigot, St. Martin, F.W.I.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2003 Madrissim Art. Espace Daniel Sorano, Paris, France

2003 Norman Parish Gallery. Georgetown Washington D.C., USA

2001 Arte, Tent. Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2001 Between Lines. Brussels, Belgium
2001 Between Lines. FX Bowling, St. Maarten, N.A.

2001 Between Lines. St Martin Tourist Bureau, St Martin, F.W.I.

2001 Between Lines. Centro Cultural Cariforo, Santo Domingo, D.R.

2001 Art Expo. Jacob Javits Center, New York, USA

2001 FACES Mosera Fine Art Gallery ,Phillipsburg, St. Maarten N.A.

2000 Art Expo. Jacob Javits Center, New York, USA

1998 6 Visions of Paradise. Curaçao Museum. Curaçao, N.A.

1998 Classic Caribbean Art Gallery. Jongbloed, Curaçao, N.A.

1998 SWEDEN AND THE CARIBBEAN, Stockholm, Sweden

1998 Art Invasion. Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery, St. Maarten, N.A.

1997 Sweden & the Caribbean. Casa las Americas, Havana, Cuba

1997 Homage to Nanette. Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery, SXM

1997 Woman and Identity. Kralendijk, Bonaire, N.A.

1996 3rd Biennial de Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, D.R

1996 Invasion. Bank of Nova Scotia/Admin. Building, St. Maarten, N.A.

1996 Bermuda National Gallery. Hamilton, Bermuda 

1996 Carib-Art. Harquil Cultural Center. Cayman Islands 

1995 Indigo. Fort Fleu de l’Epée. Guadeloupe, French West Indies

1993 Ramada Renaissance Hotel. Amsterdam,The Netherlands

1993 Carib-Art. International Trade Center, Willemstad, Curaçao, N.A.

1993 (UNESCO) Dutch Embassy. Caracas, Venezuela

1993 Ramada Renaissance Hotel. Amsterdam,The Netherlands

1992 Antillean Manifestation. Utrecht, The Netherlands

1991 Maduro & Curiels Bank, Willemstad, Curaçao, N.A.

1988 Mullet Bay Hotel. Mullet Bay, Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

1988 Le Poisson d’Or Gallery. Marigot, St. Martin, F.W.I.

1988 Bida I Kolo. Stedelijk Museum, (Opened By Queen) Holland

1987 Culture Under the Sun. Nanette Bearden Fine Arts Gallery, SXM

1982 Goyave Festival. Guadeloupe, French West Indies.


ILLUSTRATIONS:

Images of Me. Ingrid Zagers, House of Nehesi Publishers, St. Maarten

Giving Good Ghost. Andy Gross, Axum Publishing, Maui, Hawaii 

Cover of Antology for Caribbean story. (Karibische Erkundungen) Berlin 

Masquarade. Ian Valz, House of Nehesi Publishers, St. Maarten

NATIVITY, Lasana Sekou, House of Nehesi Publishers, St. Maarten

Quimbe. lasana Sekou, House of Nehsei Publishers, St. Maarten

Mother Nation. Lasana Sekou, House of Nehesi Publishers, SXM

Golden Voices of St. Maarten. Ruby Bute, House of Nehesi Publishers

PUBLICATIONS:

2001 Erasmus Magazine, University of Rotterdam

2001 Dimi Art, Cultuur and Lifestyle in Rotterdam

2001 Ruit magazine Art, Cultuur and Lifestyle in Rotterdam Arte,
Beeldende kunst van de Netherlands Antillen / Aruba

2001 St. Maarten Nights Magazine , St Maarten

1998 Callaloo Magazine, University of Virginia, VA. USA

1998 Unfold Magazine, New York

1999 Oceana Magazine, culture et vie de la caraibe

1997 Insight, Sint Maarten

1997 Caribe Suecia, Cuba /Stockholm

1997 En Vol magazine (Air Guadeloupe ), Guadeloupe

1997 Yo Magazine, St. Maarten

1997 6 Visions of Paradise, Joenbolt, Curacao N.A.

1995/1996 Ti Gourmet, St. Maarten/St. Martin

1995 Today, St. Maarten
1994 Island Magazine, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

1992 Preview Entertainment Magazine, St. Maarten

1990 Discover Magazine, St. Martin

1992 Preview Entertainment Magazine, St. Maarten

1988/1989 Kuntsbeeld, the Netherlands

COLLECTIONS:

Antillian House in the Hague, Holland

Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Holland 

Philipsburg Jubilee Library, St. Maarten

Central Library, Castries St. Lucia 

ABN AMRO bank Emmaplien, St. Maarten

KPMG, Madame Estate St. Maarten 

The Duma, Moscow, Russia
TENT. Centrum Beeldene Kunst, Rotterdam, Holland

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Europe
· America
· Caribbean
· Israel



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