Airco Caravan on ArtCrawl Harlem at Governors Island
- Isis Swaby
- Nov 3
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 13
Meet the artist @airco_caravan | Conceptual artist Airco Caravan currently lives in New York, has exhibited internationally, and founded and curated several (fundraiser) exhibitions for women’s rights. Caravan uses her sometimes provocative art to fight racism, misogyny, and inequality. Airco Caravan (b. the Netherlands) earned a BA at HKU, Academy of Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands. After a career in advertising and graphic design, Caravan returned to art, studied silk screening at MK24 in Amsterdam, and oil painting at The Art Students League of New York.
Caravan has participated in international exhibitions like Every Woman Biennial in New York, Museum de Fundatie, MOTI Museum, Amsterdam Museum, MOYA Vienna, Arte Museum Korea, and Museum of Memory and Tolerance, Mexico City. Solo shows in Amsterdam and New York. Creator of attention-grabbing guerrilla art in the public domain, including an illegal 4ft bronze statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The artist was invited to artist residencies At ArtCrawl Harlem on Governors Island, NYC, De Torenkamer, Amsterdam, and Boeddha in de Linie, in solitude in a bunker. Learn more about on @airco_caravan.
Her art was included in the collections of Amsterdam Museum, Museum Van Loon, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, Westfries Museum, the Netherlands, Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, LA, USA.
