Nina Fuentes

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Nina Fuentes Biography

Nina Fuentes, a.k.a. Nina Dotti (born Andreina Mercedes del Carmen Fuentes Angarita, April 5, 1968, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan art collector, curator, philanthropist, business woman and art dealer living in Miami, Florida.

Fuentes’s family moved to California when she was just 30 days old, and she lived in the state until she was six years old. Fuentes then returned to Caracas, Venezuela, where she graduated from Universidad Metropolitana with a bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance in 1991. She then studied Law, Museology and Art History, earning her bachelor’s degree in Arts in 2003 from Universidad José María Vargas.

Fuentes began her art collector career in 1996 when she acquired her first piece, by Francisco Narvaez, which would become the inception of her Contemporary Art Collection. Her inspiration and purpose to collect was to invest and donate important contemporary feminist art pieces to museums around the world. She shared pieces to museums all over the United States and the world, from Miami to New York City and beyond. In 2007, Fuentes joined the Independent Collectors group of Berlin.

Nina Fuentes has an indefatigable passion in the universal labor to secure human rights for the disenfranchised and marginalized, as well as others whose voices have been silenced by injustice. Through her art and its visual power to provoke thought, she fearlessly engages spectators to reconsider current social realities and understand how easily it is to become inured to negative stereotypes in our media saturated world. Her work typically confronts issues culled from worldwide headlines ranging from the rights of same sex couples to adopt children, to the fashion industry’s unwholesome mediated image of the ideal feminine form, to the outdated chauvinistic roles imposed upon mothers and housewives. In addition, Fuentes is a pioneering supporter and tireless advocate on behalf of Venezuela’s FUNDANA Foundation whose mission it is to find adoptive parents for orphaned children. To this vital cause she has contributed immeasurably through time and treasure to secure these vulnerable children a proper place in society during these increasingly volatile times. Fuentes began her philanthropic journey in 1996 as a cultural sponsor of Venezuelan Contemporary Art through the creation of the “Fundación Arte Emergente” or FAE (Foundation of Emerging Arts) to promote new talent around the world.

In 1998, Fuentes humbly started her career as an exhibition coordinator for the Museo Jacobo Borges in Catia, Venezuela.

In 2000, Fuentes began her battle to promote adoption in Venezuela, sponsoring “El Libro de Vida” project, which has helped integrate children with their adoptive families. For more than 10 years, the project has been successful through partnerships with FUNDANA, Fundación Pro Adopción and Fundación Mi Familia.

Her first contribution was the essay “Exhibición – Acción: Arte y Comunidades,” which was a collaboration with Venezuelan Anthropologist, Luis Galindo, in 2001. The essay was presented at the Museo Jacobo Borges and Museo de Ciencias Naturales in Catia and Caracas, Venezuela.

In 2004, she founded the “Asociación de Museólogos de Venezuela” I Museologist Conference.

In 2004, the Art Districts in Miami published Fuentes’s work, The Chill Concept at Hardcore: A Contemporary Evolution, continuing her contribution to the Museum of Sciences.

As part of her career as a curator, one of the most important challenges Fuentes faced was implementing the new methodology “Exhibición – Acción: Arte y Comunidades” in the exhibitions Album de Boda (2005) and Tránsito (2006).

Fuentes started her career as an art dealer in 2005 when she founded the Hardcore Art Contemporary Space in Wynwood Art District in Miami, FL. Since then, she has produced many shows, represented many artists and participated in many of the most important art fairs in the world.

Meanwhile, Fuentes worked for many years in her theory. In 2005, she began working with Luis Galindo and evolved with the collaboration of well-known curator, Gerardo Zavarce. Their work was published in Mendoza, Argentina, “Exhibición – Acción: Arte y Comunidades,” as part of the “Primer Foro de Arte Emergente: ‘Estéticas Latinoamericanas’.”

After moving to Miami in 2006, she created Arts Connection to continue supporting the arts, as well as emerging artist.

In 2010, she organized and founded the board of incorporation of the Miami Art Dealer Association (MADA), where she participated until 2014 as a board member.

Fuentes founded PSH in 2013, which is a joint venture to promote the Contemporary Arts throughout Latin America, in an association with dealers from Colombia and Bolivia, participating in seven fares around the world that year alone.

In 2013, Fuentes and Gerando were published after their presentation of Exhibition – Action: Art and Museum at the NODEM Conference in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the conference and by Common Ground in their publication: The Journal of the Inclusive Museum in New York.

Early September 2014, Fuentes officially opened her dream space, The Chill Concept, also in the Wynwood Art District of Miami, FL.

It’s a known fact that art in all its forms improves our lives and enriches our souls. In recent years scientific research has also proven that by focusing on concepts of wellness and the health of both our bodies and spirit, these efforts prolong our happiness and lives. For Nina Fuentes, the melding of these complimentary approaches to self-fulfillment is the natural condition resulting in her visionary and pioneering project called The Chill Concept. More than a mere gathering place, it is an urban sanctuary where contemporary art practices and meditative contemplation combine seamlessly to uplift the mind. An Educational Platform for community engagement through creative thinking and the integration of wellness, innovation and contemporary culture, The Chill Concept (TCC) is her conception of a new kind of museum. Her focus is building a community with a “strong positive learning environment by mitigating the big learning inhibitors: fear, ego, defenses, complacency, and arrogance” (Edward D. Hess, Learn to Die, Columbia University Press, 2014).

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