Education
2009
-MBA in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development – Faculty of International Technology, Brazil.
2007
-Degree in Geography – Federal University of Roraima (UFRR), Brazil.
Solo Exhibitions
2021
-Apresentação: Ruku. Galeria Millan, São Paulo, SP.
2019
-Pia’tai Taatai, SESC Centro, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
-Pia’tai Taatai, Jaider Esbell Contemporary Indigenous Art Gallery, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
2018
-Transmakunaima: The ‘point’ is further down, Indigenous Peoples Memorial Center, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
-My grandfather Makunaima, Federal University of Amazonas Art Center/UFAM, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
2013
-Reflections of ancestry, Gustavo Schnnor Gallery – Rio de Janeiro State University/UERJ – RJ, Brazil.
2012
-Extremes: Time, space and man, Café do Porto, Porto Alegre – RS, Brazil.
-Îtekre – Ekaremenem – The messenger, Ziembinski Theater, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil.
2011
Cabocagem: The man in the landscape, Central Library/UFRR, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
1st Jaider Esbell’s integrated arts exhibition – painting, literature, cinema and photography, Historical Church, Normandia City – RR, Brazil.
Collective Exhibitions
2021
-Moquém, Surari’. Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – MAM / 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil [pre-production].
-Though it’s dark, still I sing. 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil [pre-production].
-Cracks – Triennial of Arts. Collective exhibition at Sesc Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil [pre-production].
2020
-Vento. 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Véxoa: we know. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
-Heart in the village, feet in the world. Sesc Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
2019
-Makunaimî’s grandchildren: Meetings of contemporary indigenous art, Federal University of Paraná Art Museum/UFPR, Curitiba – PR, Brazil.
-Indigenous lands, Philippe Noiret, Clayes Sous Bois – France.
-Manjar: Re-conhecimento, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro – RJ.
-ReAnthropophagy, Arts Center of the Fluminense Federal University, Niterói – RJ, Brazil.
-To-and-fro, Bank of Brazil Cultural Center (CCBB) Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2018
-From silence to memory, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil.
2017
-Epu’tîto – arts and indigenous peoples today, SESC, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
2016
-Native landscape and diversity, União Operária Art and Culture Space, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
2014
-My neighbour Karaiwa, União Operária Art and Culture Space, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
2013
-¡Mira! Contemporary Visual Arts of Indigenous Peoples, Knowledge Space, Federal University of Minas Gerais/UFMG, Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil.
-1st PanAmazon Art Show, Associação PanAmazônica, Manaus – AM, Brazil.
-Cattle in the Amazon: Despised invaders to prized possession, Grove House, Claremont – USA.
-Cattle in the Amazon: Despised invaders to prized possession, União Operária Art and Culture Space, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
Roaming projects
2017 – 2020
-The Shaman, itinerancy of individual exhibition, cities of Boa Vista-RR, São Paulo – SP, Caçapava – SP, Pindamonhangaba – SP, São Luiz do Paraitinga – SP, São Sebastião – SP and Petrópolis – RJ, Brazil.
2016 – 2017
-It was Amazon!, itinerancy of individual exhibition, cities of Boa Vista – RR, São Luís – MA, Teresina – PI, Fortaleza – CE, Natal – RN, João Pessoa – PB, Serra Talhada – PE, Triunfo – PE, Florianópolis – SC, Juazeiro – BA, Caçapava – SP, Petrópolis – RJ.
Curatorial projects
2019
-Pia’tai Taatai, SESC Centro, Boa Vista, RR, Brazil.
-Pia’tai Taatai, Jaider Esbell Contemporary Indigenous Art Gallery, Boa Vista, RR, Brazil.
2016
-3rd All Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Meeting – Native landscape and diversity, União Operária Art and Culture Space, Boa Vista, RR, Brazil.
2014
-2nd All Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Meeting – My neighbour Karaiwa, União Operária Art and Culture Space, Boa Vista, RR, Brazil.
2013
-1st All Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Meeting – Cattle in the Amazon: Despised invaders to prized possession?, União Operária Art and Culture Space, Boa Vista, RR, Brazil.
Art education projects
2020
-Contemporary Indigenous Art: to imagine is to create worlds. Online conference in the Art and Ecology project of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – SP, Brazil.
-From virtualized entities: a conversation about Contemporary Indigenous Art. Online conference in the Ideias Sessions by Sesc São Paulo, Brazil.
2018
-Amooko Pantoni – Grandfather’s stories, drawing workshop with students from the José Alamano Indigenous School, Maturuca Community, Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land, Roraima, Brazil.
2016
-Storytelling workshop for street children, Girassol Project, Conde – PB, Brazil.
-Free Art-manifestation – The Oneself memory and the interactive social world (artistic experience), 6th Meeting of Peoples of the Sea and 2nd Meeting of Native Heritage, SESC, Fortaleza – CE, Brazil.
2013
-The tree of all knowledge (artistic experience), Xirixana People of Sikamabiu Community, Yanomami Indigenous Land, Roraima, Brazil.
Performances
2020
-CounterPandemic. Video-performance for PIPA em Casa, PIPA Brazilian Contemporary Art Prize, Brazil.
-Ecolive. Video-performance for Moreira Salles Institute Convida Program, Brazil.
2019
-Txaísmo and other charms to save Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land, Integrated curatorial programme Rivers, gardens, and networks – Gardenalities exhibition, SESC Parque D. Pedro II, São Paulo – SP, Brazil.
-Letter to the Old World (circulation-performance), cities of Brussels, Lausanne, Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Basel, Bern, Geneva, Paris, Clayes Sous Bois, London and Manchester, with emphasis on actions at the Geneva Museum of Ethnology and the UBS Bank headquarter in Geneva.
Publications
2019
-Makunaimã: The myth through time. Collective authorship (play), Elefante Publishing, Brazil.
-Jaider Esbell, Tembetá Collection, Azougue Editorial, Brazil.
2018
-Contemporary Indigenous Arts and the Big World, Select Magazine, nº 39, Brazil.
-Makunaima, my grandfather in me!, Iluminuras Journal, vol. 19, n. 46, Brazil.
2014
-Macuxi memory and culture, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul/UFMS Publishing, Brazil.
2013
-August afternoons, September mornings, October nights (tales), independent publishing, Brazil.
2012
-Makunaima’s garden: Myths, legends and stories in living (tales), Cromos Publishing, Brazil.
Interactions with universities
2020
-Makunaimî re-existing. Online conference on the Quartas Ameríndias Program at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
2019
-Public lecture Decolonial performance versions in art: The case of Makunaimî’s grandchild – Macunaíma’s Metamorphoses (seminar), Language Studies Institute, Campinas State University/UNICAMP – SP, Brazil.
-Public lecture Art as strategy for autonomy – the political arena of indigenous representation, Federal University of Santa Catarina/UFSC, Brazil.
-Discussing participation – Amazonian Poetics (colloquium), Brazil LAB, Princeton University – USA.
-Discussing participation – Arctic Amazon Symposium 2019 (colloquium), Wapatah Laboratory, Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
-Artistic discussing participation – 3rd International Congress of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America – CIPIAL, University of Brasília/UnB – DF, Brazil.
-Artistic discussing participation – Droits des peuples indigènes au Brésil: quelles perspectives en 2019? (meeting), with Daiara Tukuno, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3.
-Artistic discussing participation – Existence as resistance: an indigenous vision from Brazil (meeting), with Daiara Tukuno, at University College London.
2013
-Visiting Professor for Run to Forest, Art and Anthropology research group module, Pitzer College, Claremont – USA.
Other projects and events
2020
-Artistic participation in Cura Festival – Urban Art Circuit with the work Entities, a large installation in Santa Tereza’s viaduct, Belo Horizonte – MG, Brazil.
2019
-Artistic participation – Giant Steps in Russia Art Performance, Bryansk City (partnership with Viliam Mauritz).
-Artistic participation as Makumaimã Shaman – Macunaíma Ópera Tupi: trans_criação, musical by Iara Rennó, Sesc Vila Mariana, São Paulo – SP, Brazil.
2018
-Participation in a debate at the festival Theater and Indigenous Peoples – TePI, held at Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo – SP, Brazil.
-Artistic participation – 90 years of Macunaíma, Casa das Rosas, São Paulo – SP, Brazil.
-Main character in the movie – Amazonian Cosmos (2020) by Daniel Schweizer, Switzerland.
2017
-Artistic discussing participation – Indigenous cultural production and the system of art: Approximations and tensions, Goethe Institute, São Paulo – SP, Brazil.
-Production and artistic participation – Giant Steps in Raposa I Community Art Performance (partnership with Viliam Mauritz), Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land, Roraima, Brazil.
2016
-Artistic discussing participation – Indigenous issue in contemporary art (session) – Talks to postpone the end of the world, 32nd edition of São Paulo Art Biennial – Living Uncertainty (organized by Bené Fonteles and Ailton Krenak), Brazil.
2013
-Artistic participation (mini documentary) – Komanto’ – The art of Makunaima’s children, 1st All Indigenous Peoples’s Cultural Meeting – Cattle in the Amazon: Despised invaders to prized possession?, Boa Vista – RR, Brazil.
Awards
2016
-PIPA Brazilian Contemporary Art Award, online category.
2010
-Brazilian Art and Culture National Foundation – Funarte – Award for Literary Creation.
Video produced by Do Rio Filmes exclusively for PIPA 2021:
“Instâncias altas – A arte entre índios – Eles pediram. Taí. Jaider Esbell em Amazônia.”, 2016. Duration: 0’49”.
“Fala-despedida | Jaider Esbell visita aldeia Xirixana, RR”, 2013. Duration: 9’44”.
“Sobre música moderna entre índios milenares”. Duration: 0’46”.
“Multividuo Sincretico Glocal”. Duration: 5’06”.
“Arte no Tempo é Assim, no Futuro.” Duration: 0’47”.
“ #34bienal (Entrevista/Interview) Jaider Esbell”, 2020. Duration 10’21”
“ “Apresentação : Ruku” – Jaider Esbell ”, 20201 Duration 8’16”
“ Jaider Esbell – Culturas indígenas”, 2019. Duration7’59”
