Kaya Agari - CV

Agari is co-organizer of the Yukamaniru Institute for the Support of Kurâ-Bakairi Indigenous Women, created in 2008 to encourage the protagonism and social inclusion of these women. The institute organizes and carries out actions to promote knowledge of the culture, drawings and body paintings of Kurâ-Bakairi women and youth. Agari, as a promoter of safeguarding this knowledge, organized in 2015 the exhibition Kurâ.- Bakairi: Yakuigady e Kywenu, at the Mato Grosso Museum of Art, in which she presented canvases produced by the women and children of the Bakairi village, as well as photographs, from paintings and other objects produced by artists of this people. Kaya exhibited at the Mato Grosso Indigenous Book Fair (FLIMT) in 2010 and in 2013, she participated in the ¡Mira! Contemporary Visual Arts of Indigenous Peoples, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with tours in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. In 2017, she joined the research group Visual Virtual, Kurâ_Bakairi initiative. In 2020, she participated in the group exhibition Véxoa: Nós Sabemos, at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2021, an unpublished work by Agari is among those selected for the remodeling of the Street Art Museum, in São Paulo, curated by Hélio Menezes.