River Koelo

River Koelo is a Brooklyn-based brazilian artist whose work deals with identity, self-consciousness and displacement. His work navigates binaries in search of in-betweenness, investigating the human body within constructions of identity, social space and beauty standards. Koelo graduated from the Faculdade Seama in Macapá in 2005, where he studied Social Communication. He studied painting at Parsons the New School for Design in 2016. Since moving to New York in 2015, has been exhibiting his works through independent art shows around New York.

Front 3 pieces and the pink piece on the left of the frame are River’s. Photo by MANICFESTO

Photos below by @nowyouseemenyc

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Photos below by @nowyouseemenyc 〰️

Interviewer: Carolyn Okomo

Interviewees: Nicholas “Luffy” Royal & Kao Cheng Kai (高承楷)

Background art on stage: Edwin Ahedo

Interviewee: Robert Jamie Mason

Cinematographer: RS Films (IG: @r.sfilms )