About Nazrina
Nazrina Rodjan
b. 1990 | Rotterdam
Nazrina Rodjan is a Dutch-Surinamese visual artist of Hindustani (indentured Indian) descent. Rodjan was born and raised in Rotterdam and holds a bachelor’s degree (2016) from St. Joost School of Art and Design. Rodjan primarily works in graphite and oil. Her work represents themes of migration, queerness and diaspora, and a significant body of her work has focused on portraiture: portraits of people of color, ancestral photographs and colonial postcards. She is committed to visually representing marginalized and invisible stories using traditional painting techniques.
Photo: Kevita Junior
GALLERY / MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2025
Young Asian Perspectives
Gallery Stacii Samidin | Rotterdam, The Netherlands
28 nov 2025 - 14 nov 2025
Group Show curated by Gert-Jan Verboom
Home in a space left behind
Bihar Museum | Patna, India
07 nov 2025 - 07 nov 2025
Group Show curated by Sarojini Lewis
2024
Dalit Dreamlands: Towards an Anti-Caste Future
ARTogether & OACC | Oakland, CA
06 apr 2024 - 09 jun 2024
Group Show curated by Manu Kaur
2023
A Sense of Brown
CBK Zuidoost | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14 sep 2023 - 18 sep 2023
Group Show curated by Devika Chotoe
Remnants of Another
Twelve Gates Arts | Philadelphia, PA
05 may 2023 - 24 jun 2023
Group Show curated by Suzanne Persard
Social Memory: Sites of Remembrance
Blackburn 20/20 Gallery | New York City, NY
16 mar 2023 - 15 apr 2023
Group Show curated by Shilpi Chandra
POP-UP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Current, Currents | New York City, NY
2025 Thrive Art Exhibit | New York City, NY
2024 Indian Arrival / Indentured Survival | New York City, NY
2023 Kala Pani: 1873-2023 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2023 Roots & Routes | New York City, NY
2022 Calcutta Brieven (Calcutta Letters) | The Hague, The Netherlands
2021 When we grow up | The Hague, The Netherlands
2021 Indernet Festival | Cologne, Germany
2019 ONZE TORI | The Black Archives | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 Asian Woman Festival | Birmingham, United Kingdom
2019 Into the Light | Studio 13 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 TEDxUCL Women ‘DISRUPT’ | London, United Kingdom
2019 FEATURE | Compagnietheater | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 DIVERGE Festival | TENT | Rotterdam, The Netherlands