Artist Bio

Djuneid Dulloo (b.1983 in Pamplemousses, Mauritius) moved to Nairobi, Kenya at the age of 16 where he discovered his visual art calling by illustrating a scene from Macbeth in English class at the International School of Kenya. Djuneid attended Massachusetts College of Art & Design where he became fascinated by art history, and started to reinterpret selected works from a Mauritian perspective. After two years, he received a Full Merit Scholarship at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He studied painting, photography, printmaking and graphic design. He received an Ed.M in Art at Harvard in 2008. Djuneid Dulloo’s art materializes movement through abstract and figurative modes of representation, and is characterized by an innovative use of layering processes and mixed media methods. The subjects that Djuneid depict are based on Mauritian cultural anthropology and its aesthetics: a mixture of Indian, European, African and Asian motifs coexisting in a tight frame. Djuneid explores the notion of Mauritian post-colonial /creole aesthetic identity through the lens of Western Art History, a process he calls ”The Exotic Western,” derived as well from the Western view of exoticism.Djuneid’s work has been exhibited internationally (Mauritius, Boston, Nairobi, Barcelona, Bilbao, Paris, Berlin) including representing his country at  the very first Pavilion of Mauritius at the 56th Venice Biennale.