SHEROANAWE HAKIHIIWE
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe( b. 1971, Sheroana, Venezuela) is an Indigenous contemporary artist based in Mahekototeri, a Yanomami community in Venezuela’ s Alto Orinoco region. Since the 1990s, he has been developing a body of work focused on preserving the oral memory of his people: their cosmogony, ancestral traditions, territory, and the beings that inhabit it. He has produced handmade paper from native fibers; copublished books with his community, other artists, and independent publishers; created animations; and launched a series of artists’ books gathering his culture’ s traditional wisdom in a visual encyclopedia. His work deploys a concise visual language and ranges extensively across painting, drawing, and, more recently, printmaking. His works are conceived as expressions of knowledge that marry the ancestral with the contemporary.
Hakihiiwe has been invited to display his work at the Berlin Biennale( 2019), the Venice Biennale( 2022), the Kathmandu Triennale( 2022), and many other major group exhibitions. His most recent solo show was held in 2025 at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art( MAC), and was preceded by a solo exhibition organized by the São Paulo Museum of Art( MASP) in 2023.
Hakihiiwe’ s work features in private and museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art( MoMA), New York; the British Museum, London; the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art( SMAK), Ghent; the Reina Sofía National Museum Art Centre( MNCARS), Madrid; the Lima Art Museum, Lima; the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires( MALBA), Buenos Aires; the Denver Art Museum( DAM), Denver; and others.( LUIS ROMERO)
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