Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History
Bruce White Photography
The Museum, Welcome Gallery
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018 USA
Yale University Art Gallery
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Denilson Baniwa’s art confronts colonial histories and celebrates Indigenous resilience, using drawing, painting, sculpture, and performance to explore themes of environmental destruction, cultural erasure, and Indigenous encounters with European settlers.
By reworking historical European imagery alongside pop culture and technology, Baniwa (born 1984, Amazonas, Brazil) creates a vivid critique of colonial fantasies that speaks to contemporary Indigenous life. The exhibition, presented by the Princeton University Art Museum in collaboration with Princeton University’s Brazil LAB and Department of Anthropology, includes new works inspired by objects Baniwa examined from the museum and the university’s Special Collections.
Selected Works
Exhibition Insights
Curated by
Professor of Anthropology
,Princeton Global Scholar
Organization credit
Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape is organized by the American Federation of Arts and Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales. The exhibition tour and catalogue are generously supported by the JFM Foundation, Mrs. Donald M. Cox, and the Marc Fitch Fund. In-kind support is provided by Barbara and Richard S. Lane and Christie’s.
Sponsor Credit
Art@Bainbridge is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; Joshua R. Slocum, Class of 1998, and Sara Slocum; Rachelle Belfer Malkin, Class of 1986, and Anthony E. Malkin; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Ivy Beth Lewis.
Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History is co-organized by the Brazil LAB, the Department of Anthropology, and the Princeton University Art Museum. Co-sponsors of the project include the High Meadows Environmental Institute, University Center for Human Values, the Humanities Council, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Additional supporters include the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Department of Art & Archaeology, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Effron Center for the Study of America.