Rember Yahuarcani
Rember Yahuarcani (b.1985, Peru) is an artist, curator and activist who belongs to the Aimenɨ (White Heron) clan of the Uitoto Nation of northern Amazonia in Peru. His practice considers the interconnectivity between man, beast, landscape and spirit within Uitoto mythology, exploring and preserving indigenous traditions, community and spirituality. In 2024 Yahuarcani participated in Foreigners Everywhere at the 60th Venice Biennale. This year he is included in Ecuador's XVII Cuenca Biennial.
Alive with the flora and fauna of Amazonia in Peru, Yahuarcani’s vast and dynamic scenes immerse the viewer through their vibrant colours and powerful storytelling. Dreamlike and hallucinatory, the paintings depict the myths and stories of the artist's ancestors, where the effects of illegal mining, drug trafficking, and cultural extractivism confront the determined preservation of a community and its deeply rooted spirituality.
Yahuarcani lives and works in Lima, Peru. An inaugural solo exhibition in London with Josh Lilley will open in June 2025.
It follows a solo presentation at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de La Boca - MARCO, Buenos Aires, and commissioned inclusion in Amazons: The Ancestral Future at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB, Barcelona. Yahuarcani was the winner of the IX National Contest of Painting of the Central Reserve Bank in Lima, Peru; the Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous Art in Quito, Ecuador and received first prize in the Illustrated Story Contest, Carlota Carvallo de Nuñez. He writes about contemporary Indigenous art and has published the books Buinaima's Dream, Fidoma and the Forest of Stars, Birds and their Colours and Summer and the Rain.
Yahuarcani’s work as a curator has been included in the Cultural Centre of the University of Lima and the Garcilaso de la Vega Cultural Centre. This year, he will be part of Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
(Upcoming) Solo Exhibition, Josh Lilley, London
2024
JUMA. Preservar la memoria. Imaginar el futuro, MARCO- Museum of Contemporary Art of La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Myth In Motion, Rember Yahuarcani + Kour Pour, Kotaro Nukaga Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
AMPIYACU, territorio de mis ancestros, Room 1 Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2023
ELEVEN MOONS, Return, The Beeve, SML Exhibition Space, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
2022
USUMA, Spirits of Power, Embassy of Peru Art Gallery, Washington, USA
2021
Rember and Jitoma, British Cultural Centre, Lima, Peru
2019
Cuando los Animales eran Personas, Instituto Cervantes, Beijing, China
Paintings Rember Yahuarcani, Lladró Art Space, Beijing, China
2018
Indigenous Uitotos, 10,000 Years in the Amazonian, Art Space Inspirado, Beijing, China
Gods of the Amazon, Shangyuan Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China
El Clan de la Garza Blanca, Centro Cultural El Olivar, Lima, Peru
2017
Mitos de la Garza Blanca, Museo Bernasconi, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seres Ancestrales de la Amazonia, MARTE Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
2016
El Pais de la Goma, Centro Colich, Lima, Peru
Baile de Medianoche, Art Gallery del BTH, Lima, Peru
2015
Tabaco Frio, Centro Colich, Lima, Peru
La Garza Blanca, Museo Andres del Castillo, Lima, Peru
Group Exhibitions
2024
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Amazonias: El futuro ancestral, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
Simbolica e Iconica, ARICA Barroca, Casa de la Cultura, Arica, Chile
2023
Los rios pueden existir sin aguas, pero no sin orillas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo – MAC, Lima, Peru
2022
Les pieds sur Terre, la tete dansles etoiles, Phare de Trehiguier, Penestin, Brittany, France
Couleurs d’Amazonie, Galerie Chapleau, Le Croisic, Brittany, France
Couleurs d’Amazonie, Chateau de Ranrouet, Herbignac, Brittany, France
L’Oeil Vert. Communaute Broceliande, Brittany, France
2021
El Peru Clama y Proclama, Sala Plural Nodo Cultural, Bogota, Colombia
Construyendo el Lugar, Construyendo el Mundo: Tres Artistas Indigenas Amazonicos, Centro Cultural La Parceria, Madrid, Spain
Place-Making, World-Making: Three Amazonian Indigenous Artists. Art Exchange, Essex University, United Kingdom
2020
No Me Toques No Me Mires: El Espectro Viral del Siglo XXI, Sala 770, Lima, Peru
Everything That Sounds in the Forest, Carlow University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, United States
8th Bienal Internacional de Arte, National Art Museum, Beijing, China
Yuanmingyuan International Culture and Art Festival, Ermu Art Museum, Beijing, China
Des/bordes del Peru, CV Galeria, Santiago, Chile
Dialogos con lo Contemporaneo, Mucen del BCRP, Lima, Peru
The Merge, Miami Art Week, Miami, United States
Shangyuan Residency Program Closing Exhibition, Shangyuan Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China
Vallas Para Contar. Av. Larco, Lima, Peru
Feria Internacional de Arte de Lima, ART LIMA, Lima, Peru
Amazonias, Centro Cultural Matadero, Madrid, Spain
2018
38 Feria Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil – FILIJ, Mexico City, Mexico
Five Countries Five Artists, Shangyuan Modern Art Museum, Beijing, China
Arte Amazonica, Galeria de Arte Abraco, Lisbon, Portugal
Arte Amazonico: Mythologien und Legenden, Galerie Peyer Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Casacor, Lima, Peru
La Casa sin Puerta, Casa de la Literatura Peruana, Lima, Peru
Premio de Arte Contemporaneo ICPNA, Galeria Juan Pardo Heeren, Lima, Peru
Noche de Arte, Sede BBVA, Lima, Peru
Todas las Sangres, Galeria Juan Pardo Heeren, Lima, Peru
2017
ODEON: Feria de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
Memorias del Caucho, Museo de la Memoria – LUM, Lima, Peru
2016
Inner Visions, Sacred Plants, Art and Spirituality. Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, New York, United States
Tour of World Art, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
Magic and Reality. China Millenium Monument, Beijing, China.
Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China
The Land Where God did not Finish Creation, PATA Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2015
Amazonia: Ultimo Paraiso Magico, Centro Cultural de la Univesidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia
ART FEST, Feria de Arte Contemporaneo, Centro Cultural Juan Parra Del Riego, Lima, Peru
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