Nina Fuentes
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Nina Fuentes Collector
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| Born |
Andreina Mercedes del Carmen Fuentes Angarita April 5, 1968 Caracas, Venezuela, |
| Occupation | collector, curator, philanthropist, museologist, business woman and art dealer |
| Years active | 1985–present |
Nina Fuentes, a.k.a. Nina Dotti (born Andreina Mercedes del Carmen Fuentes Angarita, April 5, 1968, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan art collector, curator, philanthropist, business woman and art dealer living in Miami, Florida.
Fuentes's family moved to California when she was just 30 days old, and she lived in the state until she was six years old. Fuentes then returned to Caracas, Venezuela, where she graduated from Universidad Metropolitana with a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance in 1991. She then studied Law, Museology and Art History, earning her bachelor’s degree in Arts in 2003 from Universidad José María Vargas.
At a very young age she discovered the power of art to promote causes at the primal core of her principals. During her formative years she realized that although she couldn’t struggle against all the social ills that troubled her she could focus her attention and efforts on contributing to those issues she could positively impact.
Fuentes’s art work is supported by the versatile use of diverse materials, applied in installations, sculpture, photography and video. Her work is neo-conceptual, nurtured by a Duchampian influence and pop sub realistic aesthetic, and her message is highly critic, intimate and personal.
Since the beginning of her career, Fuentes explored common social and political issues like religion, the role of women in society, prostitution, violence and discrimination, especially to LGBT and women. Also, she builds on concepts of femicide as a clear demonstration of power and patriarchal control over women’s lives, freedom, dignity and sexuality.
In her country, Fuentes uses active protest channels with irony and a sense of humor. Her relationship with Venezuela has become more complex, as she questions its current state socially and politically.
Fuentes has held solo and group exhibitions in France, China, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Germany, USA (Miami, LA, and New York), UK, Switzerland, Argentina, and many other countries around the world.
Nina Fuentes has an indefatigable passion in the universal labor to secure human rights for the disenfranchised and marginalized, as well as others whose voices have been silenced by injustice. Through her art and its visual power to provoke thought, she fearlessly engages spectators to reconsider current social realities and understand how easily it is to become inured to negative stereotypes in our media saturated world. Her work typically confronts issues culled from worldwide headlines ranging from the rights of same sex couples to adopt children, to the fashion industry’s unwholesome mediated image of the ideal feminine form, to the outdated chauvinistic roles imposed upon mothers and housewives. In addition, Fuentes is a pioneering supporter and tireless advocate on behalf of Venezuela’s FUNDANA Foundation whose mission it is to find adoptive parents for orphaned children. To this vital cause she has contributed immeasurably through time and treasure to secure these vulnerable children a proper place in society during these increasingly volatile times. Fuentes began her philanthropic journey in 1996 as a cultural sponsor of Venezuelan Contemporary Art through the creation of the ”Fundación Arte Emergente” or FAE (Foundation of Emerging Arts) to promote new talent around the world.
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