Antonio José Guzman Atelier GF Workstation
Amsterdam - Gujarat - Panama City
Born in Panama City - 02 August 1971
Dutch – Panamanian
Artist Duo: Guzman & Jankovic aka Messengers of the Sun Represented by: NG Art Gallery; Panama City, Panama Stigter Van Doesburg Contemporary Art Gallery; Amsterdam, NL Featured in Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now - Phaidon Editors Featured in Interwoven Histories: Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles, by Christel Vesters Panamanian Order of Recognition of Artistic and Cultural Merit, Embassy of Panama in The Netherlands
Education
2022 Guest Resident - The Rijksakademie van de Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Research: Evocations - Decolonization as a framework for deconstructing spaces
2010 Post Experience Programme - Centre for the Humanities (CFH) of Utrecht University, The Netherlands Master Class, Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies, Professor Paul Gilroy
2003 – 2006 B.F.A. Moving Image – The Gerrit Rietveld Academie University of Applied Sciences for Fine Arts and Design VAV Audiovisual Department, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Essays and Examination Work: Gravitational Series – Flights into the unknown The contingencies associated with travel, migration and the journey of Bas Jan Ader Lectures, installations and research based on cross cultural identities and Ader’s works Supervisors: Lam de Wolf, Rob Slooten and Albert Wulffers
1989 – 1994 B.A. / M.A. Communication Sciences With honors including an emphasis in Visual Communication Design Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration, Panama City, Panama Universidad del Istmo (UDI) Red Ilumno – Whitney University System Thesis: The Effect of Editorial Photography in Human Psychology Research of communication strategies using the FCB Grid
Trainings and Workshops:
2018 Aizome - Shibori Indigo Dyeing, Wanariya Atelier, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Ajrakh Printing, Sufiyan Khatri Company, Indigo House, Gujarat, India
2015 Ancestral Blues, Shaheen Merali, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 (I Can) Feel the Pulse, Emory Douglas, Mesh Print Club - MAMA Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2008 Mieke Bal, Migratory Aesthetics, ASCA - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Residencies
2018 AIR Minerva Art Academy, Groningen, The Netherlands - Grant from Hanze University of Applied Sciences
2018 Spring House Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Stichting Open Ateliers Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Art Omi - Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York, United States 2013 Windward School, Los Angeles, California - Grant from The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
2012 Cite Internationale des arts Paris, France - Grant from Ville de Paris
2011 Flaggfabrikken Center for Contemporary Art, Bergen, Norway Grant by Council for the Arts Bergen, Norway
2010 AIR Antwerpen, Made possible by MHKA Antwerp, Belgium
Selected solo exhibitions
2027 Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle; NL (Curated by Aude Christel Mgba) 2026 Tropical Hiperstición - Panama Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia (Curated by Ana Elizabeth Gonzalez & Monica Kupfer) 2026 A Timeline of Infinite - Phoenix Art Space - Brighton Festival (Curated by Laurence Hill) 2025 DUB Encyclopedia INIVA, London, United Kingdom (Curated by Beatriz Lobo and Sepake Angiama) 2025 Tomorrow’s Return, MAC Panama, Panama City, Panama (Curated by Juan Canela and Jennifer Choy) 2025 Technicolor Transmission, NG Art Galllery, Panama City, Panama 2024 The Reconstruction oil Stardust, Dots Gallery Belgrade, Serbia 2023 Stigter Van Doesburg Contemporary Art Gallery 2023 Electric Dub Station, NG Art Galllery, Panama City, Panama 2021 Electric Dub Station, 22th Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala (Curated by Alexia Tala and Gabriel Rodriguez) 2020 Electric Dub Station – Oscam Contemporary Art Museum – Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2019 Exodo Supremo, Casa del Festival, 13th Havana Biennial, Cuba (Curated by Juanito Delgado, Loliett Marrero Delachaux and Margarita Gonzalez Lorente) 2018 The Supreme Exodus, Kunsthal Oud Groninger Museum & Groninger Museum, The Netherlands 2017 Monochromatic, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2017 ADN Soundsistema, MAC - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama 2016 Dukkha, Galerie 23, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2015 El Organo Oriental, 12th Havana Biennial, Cuba (Curated by Jose Manuel Noceda) 2013 Psychogeographic Mapping Research, GUP Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2013 Psychogeographic Mapping Research, Windward Arts Center, Los Angeles, California 2012 Piertopolis, Gemak in De Vrije Academie, The Hague, The Netherlands 2012 Yatra, Knipsu Center for Photography and Contemporary Art, Bergen, Norway 2002 Donde Están, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Territorios en Conexión, Pinta Art Week Panama, Curated by Irene Gelfman
2025 Quadriloque, PARK, Tilburg
Tomorrow’s Return, New York Latin American Triennale
Shapeshifters, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Concrete Roots, Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool Biennial), c. Marie Anne McQuay
Toxteth Dub, Tate Liverpool (Liverpool Biennial), c. Carine Harmand
Indigo Resistances, Serpentine & CICC School, London (Radha D’Souza & Jonas Staal)
RE NATURE Festival, c. Imke Ruigrok
Threads of Connection, Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard
Pinta Art Week Lima, NG Gallery Panama
Exquisite Encounters, Stadssalon Amsterdam
Pinta Art Week Panama City, NG Gallery Panama
2024 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (Curated by Adriano Pedrosa & Amanda Carneiro) Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Centre, London
2023 Transatlantic Stargate, HKW Berlin — O Quilombismo (Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marie Helene Pereira, Cosmin Costinas and Paz Guevara) Exodus, Bijbels Museum & Buitenplaats Doornburgh Art Rotterdam, Stigter Van Doesburg Contemporary Art Guzman & Jankovic, Stigter Van Doesburg Contemporary Art
2022 Messengers of the Sun, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Curated by Amanda Pinatih and Britte Sloothaak)
The Origin of Blue, TextielMuseum, Tilburg (Curated by Adelheid Smit)
Indigo Republic, Constant 101: The Future Can Be Humane, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (with Antonis Pittas and Constant Nieuwenhuijs)
A World of Many Worlds, CBK Zuidoost (Curated by Renske de Jong)
Rijksakademie Open Studios
2021 Ramayana, Rozenstraat 59 (Curated by Christel Vesters)
Weaving History, 18th Street Arts Center, California (Curated by Frida Cano)
Electric Dub Station, Sonsbeek, Arnhem (Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung) Electric Dub Station Performance, CBK Zuidoost
Constant 101, Cobra Museum / Fondation Constant (Curated by Zippora Elders)
Refresh Amsterdam – Sense of Place, Amsterdam Museum (Curated by Imara Limon)
2019 The Supreme Exodus, Detrás del Muro, 13th Havana Biennial, Cuba 2018 The Supreme Exodus, Tent Rotterdam (Curated by Sabrina Starke with Charl Landvreugd) 2018 Dukkha, The Silk Road International Exposition, Xi’an, China 2016 El Órgano Oriental, Intersections – Art Rotterdam 2016 El Cielo de mi Memoria, X Central American Biennial, Limón, Costa Rica 2015 Ancestral Blues, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (Curated by Vincent van Velsen) 2015 Common Ground, Unseen Festival, Amsterdam 2014 Dukkha, OMI International Arts Center, New York 2013 Formed Perceptions, Rush Arts Gallery / Corridor Gallery, New York
2009–2011 The State of L3 Panafrican Collective Exhibitions (Advisors: Koyo Kouoh, Remy Jungerman, Rob Perree, Oumar Mbengue)
Piertopia, Galleri Image, Aarhus (Curated by Beate Cegielska) Parallel Doors, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (Artistic Director: Bart De Baere) Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam Mémoires de la Négritude, Galerie 23, Amsterdam Présence Africaine, Dak’Art Biennale (Curated by Ousseynou Wade) Maroon in Park, 10th Sharjah Biennial (Curated by Suzanne Cotter, Valerie Hillings, Reem Fadda)
Recent Performances
2025 DUB Encyclopedia; INIVA, London Concrete Roots, Walker Art Gallery; Liverpool Biennial El Retorno del Mañana, MAC Panama; Intergalactic Dub Frequencies Liverpool Biennial; 60th Venice Biennale (cur. Adriano Pedrosa)
2023 Transatlantic Stargate, HKW Berlin; O Quilombismo (cur. Cosmin Costinas & Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung) Evocations, NG Art Gallery, Panama City
2022 Evocations, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (cur. Amanda Pinatih & Britte Sloothaak) Evocations, Art Basel Parcours (cur. Samuel Leuenberger) The Origin of Blue, TextielMuseum, Tilburg (cur. Adelheid Smit) Rijksakademie Open Studios
2021 — Sonsbeek 20→24 (cur. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung)
Selected Film Festivals and Screenings
2025 Evocations, MAC Panama 2023 Evocations / Biografica, NG Art Gallery, Panama City 2022 Evocations / Biografica, Rijksakademie Open Studios 2020 Big Floyd Dub Indigo Remix, Sonsbeek 20–24 (Curated by Bonaventure Ndikung) 2013 Regressions, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 2012 Regressions, RAW MATERIAL COMPANY, Senegal (Curated by Koyo Kouoh) 2011 The Day We Surrender to the Air, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris 2011 The Day We Surrender to the Air, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2010 The Day We Surrender to the Air, IDFA International Documentary Film Festival
Recent Grants
2026 La Biennale di Venezia - International Presentations Grant (Mondriaan Fund) 2025 The Elephant Trust, London - Trustee 2025 Liverpool Biennial – Artist Project and International Presentations Grant (Mondriaan Fund) 2025 Ammodo ART - Performance La Biennale di Venezia 2025 MAC Panama – Artist Project and International Presentations Grant (Mondriaan Fund) 2024 La Biennale di Venezia - Artist Project and International Presentations Grant (Mondriaan Fund) 2022 Projectinvestering Kunstenaar Grant (Mondriaan Fund, Stedelijk Museum)
Recent Professional Experience
2025 - Present, Team Leader ASV De Dijk De Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond (KNVB) 2025 Advisor, Art Acquisitions, TextielMuseum 2024 Advisor, Municipal Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum 2024 - Present, Supervisory Board, BAU & Veem House for Performance 2024 Instruction, Educational Programme, La Biennale di Venezia 2021–2024 Supervisory Board (RVT), Heden Foundation, The Hague 2022–2024 Guest Tutor, Sandberg Institute & Artwell Residencies 2022 Lecturer, Theory and Textile Decoloniality, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2022 Examination Board, Sandberg Institute 2020 - 2025 Participation Council (MR) De Bienkorf, Elementary school, Amsterdam 2018–2023 Program Advisor, Nieuw Dakota 2018–2021 Advisor, Art and Cultural Heritage, Mondriaan Fund 2016–2017 Curator, Latin American Cartographies, BOZAR, Brussels 2016–2020 Tutor, BEAR ArtEZ 2020–2021 Jury Member, Prix de Rome 2020 Examination Board, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Collections
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam OMI Int. Arts Center, New York MAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City NG Art Gallery, Panama City Foundation Los Carbonell, Panama MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York TextielMuseum, Tilburg Wifredo Lam, Havana Galleri Image, Aarhus The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles Private collectors of contemporary, fiber art and historical art, including single-artist estates, museum-affiliated trustees, and high-net-worth patrons managing discreet, climate-controlled holdings.