Awards
Dominican born, Miami based, Charo Oquet, Miami Beach, No-Vacancy, 2022; Awards include; Bass Museum Commission for Temporary Monument ‘21-22; Ellies Creator Award 2020; Knight Challenge Grant ’19, Perez Family Foundation Create Grant ’19, NALAC ’19, South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship 15 & 05 MAP Fund ‘15, Miami Light Project Here & Now commission; National Performance Network Artists Residency award; the Grand Prize in the Dominican Biennial, Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo ‘11; Florida State Artists Fellowship Award ‘06; South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship, and the QE II Arts Council of N.Z. Artist Fellowship Award. Featured in publications: Atlantica, index, El Pais, Vogue China, The Miami Herald. Recent exhibitions include 26 Biennial of Santo Domingo, Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo. Her work is Included in the permanent collections of the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, (CAAM) Las Palmas, Spain; New Zealand Parliamentary Collection; The Bass Museum; the Fort Lauderdale and Frost Museum of Florida; New Zealand National Museum, Wellington, N.Z.; Govett-Brewter Art Gallery, New Zealand; and the Modern Art Museum of Dominican Republic; The World Bank as well as in many important private collections. In 2002, the late Antonio Zaya published a book, “Charo Oquet – What the Mermaid Sees.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Edge Zones Gallery, Miami, Fl , Every People – Multi-Media exhibition
Fringe Projects Miami, Public Color Project, Points of Joy - Monument commission, Government Center, downtown Miami, FL.
2020 Dimensions Variable Gallery, Miami, FL Entering Sacred Grounds – Charo Oquet –
2019 Lummus Park, Miami Beach, FL Miami Beach Rara processional performance,
2017 Institute of Contemporary Art of Miami (ICA), Miami, FL Miami Rara, processional performance -
Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand Arrayanos, multi-media performance/installation -.
Edge Zones Gallery, Miami, FL Arrayanos,
2016 MoCA, Miami, FL, The Little Known Saints –From Maria Sabina to Boukman, performance, (Deceptions and crazy wisdom:
The world between Maria Sabina and Boukman.,) multi-media performance/exhibition,
Miami Light Project, Here and Now Festival, Miami Flyers
From Rags to Riches - Coded Messages in Material Expressions – North Miami Library
ACCIONArar, Anolaima, Colombia, Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds), residency and performance
María Sabina y Boukman.,
Two Flags - Live- performance, CUNY Graduate Center, 5th avenue and 34th Street, New York, NY.
INDEX, Santo Domingo/Miami/Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Estudio Privado Arte, Santiago, Chile Engaños y sabiduría loca: El Mundo entre María Sabina y Boukman.,
2015 Farside Gallery,Miami, FL, Repossessed
2010 Quinta Dominica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Fragmentos
2008 Edge Zones, Miami Dreams, Miami Film Festival
2007 CIGE - Beijing, China Cross Roads
Galeria Carmen de la Guerra, Madrid, Translocal Temporary Art Zones
2006 Seduction- Zones- Miami, FL Translocal Temporary Art Zone Project, Paris,
Berlin, Istanbul Edge Zones, Miami, Sculptures.
2005 ArtGallery, Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Crazy Wisdom, Miami, Fl.
Bass Museum of Art, The Trickster’s Dwelling, Miami Beach, FL.
2004 Bass Museum of Art, Charo Oquet– Graphic Works, Miami Beach, FL.
Edge Zones, The Hidden and the Revealed, for Art Basel Miami,
2003 Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Buscando el Camino,
Casal Solleric, Veiled Realities/Realidad Bajo Velos Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2002 Convento de Santo Domingo, Lanzarote, Spain, curated by Antonio Zaya.
Española Way Arts Center, Gagá, Miami Beach, FL.
2001 Galeria Senda,, Mermaid Song (Canto de Sirena) installation/ performance,
Barcelona, Spain
Hollywood Arts and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
A+ Resources, Reflections of the Soul, Miami, FL
Main Library, Miami, A Marriage of Myth, curated by Barbara Young
1999 Ambrosino Gallery, The Kingdom of our World, Coral Gables, Miami,
1998 Española Way Arts Center Rituals and Syncretism,
1996 Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center Charo Oquet Recent Works, Miami, Fl
1994 Ambrosino Fine Arts, Paradise Lost, Coral Gables, Miami, Fl
1988 Centro de Arte Nouveau Recent Works, Santo Domingo
1986 RKS ART, Auckland, New Zealand
Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand
1984 Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland NZ,
Ginko Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Red Metro Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1983 RKS ART, New Works, Auckland, New Zealand
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2021. Ping-Pong-Basel-’21- M54, Basel, Switzerland
Project Space at FatVillage Arts District, Ft. Lauredale, FL, Caminante, curated by Laura Bustamante
Miami Performance International Festival’21, Miami Rara, Lummus Park, Miami Beach, FL
2020 Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Miami, FL Global/Borderless Caribbean XII: Focus Miami
AIM Biennial, Miami, FL
Red Studios, Miami, FL, “Clay”,
Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham, “A La Carte”,
2019 Bridge Red Studios, Concrete Jungle – Narrative of Presence, curated by William Cordova, N. Miami, FL
The Corcoran Gallery, at the School of the Arts and Design, Washington, D.C. Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the
Creole City, 2019, curated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace,
“Life and Work of an Idea”, Colectivo Periferia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Street Art Dominic-Accions” Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, Mexico City, MX
“Cut: American Abstract Paintings, 1960 to the present”, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
"the other half of the sky" Girls Club, Ft. Lauredale, FL
The XIII Havana Biennial, The Construction of the Possible, Havana, Cuba
Project Row Houses, Round 49, Penumbras - Sacred Geometry, Huston, Texas;
2018 Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
Relational Undercurrents, Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Museum of Latin
American Art Frost Art Museum, Miami, Fl, curated by Tatiana Flores (travelling exhibition)
Boundary, curated by David Marsh, Edge Zones Gallery, FL
Paradise Lost, curated by William Cordova Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY,
Colirio, Mirar sin Prejuicios, Centro Cultural de España en Santo Domingo (CCE) Santo Domingo, DR.
2017 In Times of Uncertainty… , Edge Zones Art Space, Miami, FL
Relational Undercurrents, Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Museum of Latin
American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA, curated by Tatiana Flores
South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual & Media Artists Award exhibition,
MoCA N. MiamiThe tranphysics we Knew About…, Prizm Art Fair, curated by William Cordova.
The tranphysics we Knew About…,Hollywood, Art and Culture Center
Index Santo Domingo – Centro de Cultural de España de Santo Domingo, Mambey Gallery,
2016 Impulsos Performagraphicos Territorio, Tiempo e Iteración en Arte de AcciónARTerial PERFORMANCE LAB, y EL CUBO,
Valparaiso, Chile
INDEX - Santo Domingo/Puerto Rico/Miami ’16, Quinta Dominica, Laboratorio Evolutivo de Arte Contemporaneo,
Santo Domingo, Parque Colón, Santo Domingo
Gaga Now! , Art, Race, and Fluidity in Dominican Republic and Haiti, Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY, New Yor
2015 1st. Asuncion Biennial, Salazar Museum, Asuncion, Paraguay
INDEX - Santo Domingo/Puerto Rico/Miami ’15, Quinta Dominica, Laboratorio Evolutivo de Arte Contemporaneo,
Santo Domingo, Parque Colón, Santo Domingo.
Independence.do International Performance Festival, Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata, D.R.
Abracadabra, Hollywood Arts and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
2014 Third Space; Inventing the Possible, MoCA North Miami, FL
Be.Bop European Body Politics , Spiritual Revolutions & the Scramble for Africa: Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin Germany and Art Labour Archives;
2013 Performia1 International Performance Festival Miami, FL
EXTRA Int’l Performance Festival, - Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City
Independence.do International Performance Festival – CCE, Santo Domingo
Independence.do – Puerto Plata ,
1st Afiriperfoma Biennial Liv Art Festival in Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe
2012 Independence.do v – Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo –
Independence.do Performance Festival – A Puerto Plata – San Felipe –
2011 26 National Visual Art Biennial – Santo Domingo, Modern Art Museum – (Grand Prize winner)
Independence.d
2007 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Mami Watas: The Roots and Routes of African Water Spirit Arts, Beliefs,
and UNESCO, Paris, Away, Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna, Sweden American Confluence Practice
2008 Modern Art Museum of Santo Domingo, Spanish Cultural Center Santo Domingo,
Art of Uncertainty.
Mami Watta, curated by Henry Drewal at the Fowler Museum at UCLA (traveling exhibition)
2006 Modern Art Museum of Santo Domingo, Reassessing the Diaspora and Puerto Plata, DR
2005 PAC, Milan, Italy, Art, Religion and Politics, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin
Ft. Lauredale Museum, New Art 2005, S. Florida Cultural Fellowship for Visual Museum of the Royal Houses, (de
las Casas Reales) , Santo Domingo ReMapping the Caribbean-
Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland, Ping-Pong.
La Fabrika, El Salvador Art of Uncertainty,
2004 Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL , Nepotism,
Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL, Miami,
Visions of Now, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R. Eclectic Works 2002-2004
2003 Food Culture Museum, Miami , FL MENU
Kunstnerne Hus, Oslo, Norway, Etter Columbus.com/After Columbus.com
SP, Moli de Pals, Spain ,Small, curated by Antonio Zaya
2002 M&M Projects, P.R, En Ruta PR’02, .Marks Project , Curated by Antonio Zaya
Martinez Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Public November, curated by Antonio Zaya
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic , Contexto Santo Domingo ’02, street interventions co-curated by Antonio
Zaya
Bass Museum of Art, glove>Miami<island, Miami Beach, FL
2001 Modern Art Museum of Santo Domingo, VII Caribbean Biennial, D.R.
Casa Gayasamim, Miami Tierra Caliente, Sto. Dgo., D.R.
Florida Atlantic University, Marks of the Soul, curated by B. Martinez-Ruiz,
2000 Locust Project, Miami, FL. 4 Play,
Historical Museum of Southern Florida, “Ink Different”, 28th Miami, FL.
Denise Andrew Gallery, Miami, FL
The Glory and Power of Color. Dominican Art Series , Santo Domingo, D.R
Cabo de Ano for “Abuela Fefa”, Intervention Project
1999 Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Myth and Dreams, Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida and
the Caribbean, (touring Exhibition.)
Florida International University Museum, BFA Exhibition, Miami, FL.
Main Library, Miami, All Gods Children Have Shoes, curated by Barbara Young.
1997 Casa Dominicana, I Dominican Youth Arts Festival, Miami Beach, FL.
Art Center/South Florida Ogun Project - collaboration, Eduard Duval Carrie` Adrian Castro, James Herring,
1995 Art Space,New Haven, CT Ain't I a Woman, Women of the African Diaspora Curated by Colleen L..Coleman,
South Florida Arts Center, Miami Beach, FL Ten Years On The Road,curated by Manuel E. Gonzalez.
Altos de Chavon Dominican Images, Dominican Republic
1994 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Conn, Paper Visions V, A Biennial of Works on paper,
curated by Benjamin Ortiz
Atrium Gallery, St. Thomas University African Influence in Latin American
Art, South Florida ArtCenter Something about libraries . 3 x 4, Miami Beach, FL.
1993 Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 35th Annual Hortt Exhibition".
African Heritage Cultural Arts Center Gallery "
Miami/Beach Art Exchange",
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fl "Featuring Florida, Annual Curated Exhibition".
1992 City Hall Gallery, Orlando Here! Hispanic Art In Orlando, FL. curated by
Barbara Gillman. Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale
1991 Bacardi Art Gallery, Miami, FL Rediscovering the America,.
1988 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) Current Arrivals, New York
Dowse Art Museum, Women in New Zealand Society, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand New Acquisitions
1984 MoCha, New York, NY Third Latin American Graphic Arts Biennial
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ, New Women Artists, touring exhibition, North Island
public galleries, NZ.
1982 Canning House, London, UK. Dominican Images.
Altos de Chavon Art Gallery, Dominican Republic .
EDUCATION
2000 BFA Florida International University in 2000, Suma Cum Lauder.
1998 AA degree at Miami Dade Community College, Suma Cum Laude
1973-74 APEC Drawing and Painting
1988 National Fine Arts Academy of Santo Domingo
1983 Printmaking i Auckland Society of Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
1969-70. Fine Arts Academy of Santo Domingo.
PUBLIC LECTURES/ VISITING ARTIST
2020 Charo Oquet and Amy Galpin, Conversation, Dimensions Variable, Miami,FL
2018 Charo Oquet’s Work, Local View, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Miami Rara, Break Out Section, Creativetime Summit, Miami,
Frost Museum, FIU, panel for Relational Undercurrents, Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
2016 Lecture, Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia) (Uniandes)
Lecture, Universidad de Playa Ancha, UPLA, Facultad de Arte,Valparaíso, Chile
2013 Lecturer 9 SIMPOSIO ARTE, DISEÑO Y ENTORNO POSGRADO EN ARTES Y DISEÑO at the Academia
de San Carlos, Mexico City
2012 Lecturer - UNAM, Dept. of Women Studies, Mexico City
2008 Implements art projects with at-risk youth, provides educational outreach programs, and organizes and
implements a International Cultural Exchange Program.
Published “Supermix” 300 pages full color book on contemporary art in Miami.
2007 Published Wet II 200 pages full color book on contemporary art in Miami.
2006 Published Wet 100 page full color book on contemporary art in Miami
2005 Published Miami Now a 50 page full color book on contemporary art in Miami
2004 Guess lecturer at the Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL “Picasso and Printmaking, in conjunction
with the Picasso exhibition.
2003 Residency and Conducted an artist workshop at the CAAM, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno,
Canary Islands, Spain.
Commissioned by the Delray Beach Cultural Loop, Delray Beach, to create an outdoor piece The Tricksters Dwelling FL.
Founded Edge Zones began producing events in a 25,000 square feet of exhibition, studio, and artist
residency spaces which were loan to her.
2002 Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., Panel Discussion, Symposium on Latin American Literature and Arts.
Art-In-Public-Places Commissioned her to create a Mural at Tropical Park A Symphony of Colors, mosaic mural with Refugee
youth.
Participates in Panel Discussion, African Poetics, Philosophies and Religion in Contemporary Caribbean Art Florida Atlantic
University, Boca Raton, FL.
Co-curated with Antonio Zaya “Context/Contexto ‘02” an international group project in Dominican Republic.
2001 Co-curated “Miami Tierra Caliente” with Genaro Ambrosino for the IV Biennal of Santo Domingo.
2000 Miami Arts Collaborative, produced the V Dominican Youth Arts Festival. Art-In-Public-Places
Commissioned her to create, Tropical Park Mural, , The Garden of Our Imagination, mosaic mural created with Refugee youth,
Tropical Park, Miami. Inner City Games, Commissioned her to create a Mural, Goulds Park Goulds, FL.
1999 Florida International University invites her to participate in an Artist Slides Talk, From Local To Global:
Rethinking Yoruba Religious Traditions For The Next Millennium. Rutgers University and New York
University Keynote Speaker Reuniting Hispanola conference.
Facilitates a Children’s Creative Arts Camp at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA ), Miami,
The FIU Wolfsonian Institute, Children’s Workshop on Dominican Gaga.
Dominican Arts Series she creates a Children’s Workshop and Lectures Allapattah Middle School and
Organized and Directed the IV Dominican Youth Arts Festival, recipient of grant for festival.
1998 invited by The City College of New York to participate in a panel Dominican Culture At The End Of The
Century: a symposium
III Dominican Youth Arts Festival’98 -held at FIU: Wolfsonian Institute, with the title Dominican Identity in the Year 2000 .
Facilitates Children’s workshop at Miami Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA
Facilitates Children’s workshop at the Wolfsonian FIU Museum, Miami, Fl Participates in Artistic License, Artist Residency
through the Cultural Affairs Department and Dade County Public Schools.
1997 Produces the II Dominican Youth Arts through a Cultural Affairs under the auspices of the Rhyth Foundation.
1996 Working under the auspices of The Rhythm Foundation, in she co-funded Miami Arts Collaborative, focusing on multi-
cultural programs such as the Dominican Arts Series,
Authored A Children's Guide to the History and Culture of The Dominican Republic which accompany Modern and
Contemporary Art of
Dominican Republic exhibition at the Bass Museum,
Organized and coordinated Dominican Youth Arts Festival, Miami, FL.
Invited to co-facilitated a workshop for the "Arts Integration In A Multicultural Environment for the South Florida Cultural
Consortium at Lynn Univ., Boca Raton, FL.
1995 Directs the Children's Program in South Florida Art Center, Miami, FL.
1994 Commissioned to curate Roadart Installations, for Art Center/ South Florida , for the NAAO Conference celebration, Miami
Beach, FL.
1993 Artist Talk at the Ringling Museum of Art, "Featuring Florida Exhibition, Sarasota,