Isa Gama (Isabel Valença Gama Rodrigues)
7 October 1960, Chimoio, Mozambique, (Portuguese parents)
Since 2002 lives with her family in Holland, her partner origin country.
Nationality: Portuguese
▪ School and professional experience:
I have studied to become a basic-school’s teacher, though I never completed the course.
Since 1975 when I left Mozambique, I've lived and worked in a few countries such as Portugal, Nederland, Guinea-Bissau, France and Brazil doing all kinds of temporary jobs.
It was in Brazil in 1994, that I started my professional career as an art painter.
2008/09 – individual coaching (Van talent naar beroep) by Adriaan Rees - Kunstenaars en Co and NetwerkCS
▪ Public and commercial activities:
2009 - Ge(k)linkt – Stadsdeelkantoor Oud-West - Amsterdam - Holland
2003 - “ In Migration” - Bibliotheek Waalwijk – Waalwijk - Holland
2001 - Municipal Cultural House’s Gallery - Apelação – Loures - Portugal
2001 - "In between us" - Museum of Traditional and Religious Art of Cabo Frio (RJ) - Brazil
2000 - Caixa Geral de Depósitos – Oeiras - Portugal
2000 - "Rhythmchromy" - Hotel Galapagos INN - Búzios (RJ) - Brazil
1999 - Rio de Janeiro’s Legislative Assembly – ALERJ - Brazil
1999 - “Traces & Colors" - José de Dome's Cultural House - Cabo Frio (RJ) - Brazil
1998 - "Phases and Faces" - S. Matthews’s Forth - Cabo Frio (RJ) - Brazil
1997 - Pousada Argonauta - Cabo Frio (RJ) - Brazil
2009 - Windnomade – Oerol Festival – Terschelling – Holland
2009 - Open Ateliers – Vlaszak – Breda - Holland
2009 - Slaploze nacht – Café Hijgend Hert – Cultuurnacht Breda – Holland
2008 - Kunstbeurs Ahoy 2008 - Rotterdam
2008 - Estafette 2008 - Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam - Holland
2008 - DNK Gallery – Dorst - Holland
2008 - “Boa Draait Door” – Statsgalerij – Breda - Holland
2008 - “Street Art Festival” – Electron – Breda - Holland
2007 - “Spijkers” Vlaszak 4 – Breda – Holland
2004 - “Icarus” Stedelijk Gymnasium – Breda – Holland
2003 /2004/2005 - Breda’s Open Ateliers (Stedelijk Gymnasium and Electrom) – Holland
2000 - Itinerant Exhibition - "Time" - Isa Gama (painting) / Marina Vergara (sculpture) - José de Dome's Cultural House - Cabo Frio (RJ) - Cultural Space "Amais" - Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro.- Brazil
2000 - MART- Museum of Traditional and Religious Art of Cabo Frio - "Woman's International day" - Brazil
2000 - José de Dome's Cultural House - Cabo Frio (RJ) - "500 years of the discovery of Brazil"
1999 - Museum of Traditional and Religious Art of Cabo Frio -" Woman's International Day" - Brazil
1997 - José de Dome's Cultural House - Cabo Frio (RJ) - Brazil
1997 - Hotel Galapagos INN - Búzios (RJ) - "Visions of Land and Sea" - Josafá and Isa Gama - Brazil
1996 - José de Dome's Cultural House - Cabo Frio (RJ) - Brazil
2007 - Establishment of Knack-all (www.knack-all.com) cooperative that prints and sells t-shirts from several artist.
2005 - Illustration of a children book “ A menina que tinha medo do escuro” Lisboa Editora – Portugal. Costumes design and multimedia support (dvd) for a theatre based on the same book. Lisbon – Portugal
2002 - All painting, concerning costumes, cars and sculptures for the 2002 carnival parade of Cabo Frio’s School of Samba “Vermelho e Branco”.
2002 - Scenery of 4,80m x 3,40m in S. Matthews’s Forth in Cabo Frio, Brazil for the exhibition "The man and the sea" promoted by IPHAN (National Institute of Art and Historical Patrimony) and Cabo Frio's Town Council
2001/2002 - Painting of lycras for bikinis factories.