Charo Oquet

Dominican Republic, 1952

BiographyCharo Oquet, a native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic is a Miami-based artist. Her interdisciplinary work includes painting, photography, performance and installation. An arts activist, in 1996 she founded and directed “Miami Arts Collaborative”, which later became Edge Zones, a non-profit arts organization. In her role as director and curator Oquet took a leadership role in organizing numerous exhibitions which have featured Dominican and Miami artists internationally. Her projects Art of Uncertainty, which took place each of the last three years (2007-2009), included more than 300 were mounted in Miami, Santo Domingo and El Salvador. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, most recently the Florida State Artists Fellowship Award. She has also been awarded the State of Florida Artists Enhancement Grant; South Florida Cultural Consortium 2005 Visual and Media Artists Fellowship Award; Creative Capital Grant; South Florida Cultural Artists Access Grant and New Forms Florida Grant as well as the QE II Arts Council of N.Z. Artist Fellowship (84, 85 and 86) during the years she lived and worked in New Zealand. She received a BFA from Florida International University.

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