Hakihiiwe is an indigenous artist from the Yanomami community Pori Pori whose practice spans drawings, monotypes and paintings. Hakihiiwe incorporates in his people’s knowledge repertoire in his works, from the medicinal properties of forest plants to ancestral lore of animals and spirits that inhabit it, shamanic songs and body painting. The artist’s delicate artistic language employs straight lines and organic curves, dots, circles, triangles, zigzags, arches and crosses, all in plant-based paints and Amazonian fiber paper. Heir to a tradition of abstract pictorialism, his practice entertains a constant dialog with amerindian cosmologies.
Among his recent solo exhibitions are Yo Ora Hami, Sala de exposiciones del Centro Comercial Miragua, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela (2025); Thapiri (Sueño), MAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile (2025); Ihirama [Drought], PROXYCO, New York, USA (2024); Thapiri, CC Paseo de las Mercedes, Caracas, Venezuela (2024); Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe: Tudo isso somos nós, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Parimi Nahi’ [The eternal house of the shaman], Centro de Arte Los Galapones, Caracas, Venezuela (2022); Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel | Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2021) and Urihi teri, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal (2021). He also took part in the group shows El Futuro Ancestral, CCCB – Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2024); El espacio en medio, MAMM – Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia (2024); Topalekuak, Tabakalera – International Center for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián, Spain (2024); Siamo Foresta, Triennale Milano/Fondation Cartier, Milan, Italy (2023); Diagonais, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2023) Something Beautiful: Reframing la colección, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA (2023) and Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2023).
The artist has works in important public collections, such as MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; British Museum, London, UK; Museo del Barrio, New York, USA; PAMM – Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA; Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, USA; Colección Cisneros-Fontanals, Miami, USA; Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, New York, USA; Museo de Austin,Texas, USA; Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia; Library of the Congress of United States, Washington, USA; Collection Maldonado, Miami, USA; Banco Mercantil Collection, Caracas, Venezuela; University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Catherine Petitgas Collection, London, UK and Columbia Chicago College, Chicago, USA.