EDUCATION

Self-taught artist

BIOGRAPHY

Ras Mosera is one of Saint Martin’s most celebrated artists. Born in Saint Lucia, he left his homeland and settled on the higher slopes of French Quarter in Saint Martin. His name derives from Moseroth, the biblical mountain associated with the Israelites’ fortieth station after leaving Egypt.
Mosera’s distinctive visual language foreground’s Caribbean identity and the region’s intersection of European and African cultures. His work gives prominence to Afro-Caribbean traditions while avoiding cliché. Working in an expressionist mode, he combines form and color to create a highly personal yet accessible language in which the boundary between dream and reality becomes fluid.
A painter and musician, Mosera often depicts women and musicians. He is also the owner of Axum Art Café in Philipsburg. Closely attentive to social conditions, he seeks to express them through both art and music, creating work intended to provoke reflection rather than offer only decorative pleasure.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo exhibitions since 2000

2017 – Gallery Alma Blou, Curaçao
2010 – Gallery Alma Blou, Curaçao
2008 – Amahoro Gallery, West Indies Mall, Sint Martin
2008 – The Inner Gallery, Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia
2003 – Centre des Arts et de la Culture, Place des Martyrs, Guadeloupe
2003 – The Inner Gallery, Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia
2002 – The Source, Axum Art Café, Sint Martin
2001 – Maximum Mosera, Axum Pacifica, Maui, Hawaii

Group exhibitions since 2000

2010 – Lingage/Liaison, Mosera and J. C. Huet, Tropismes Gallery, Grand Case, Saint Martin
2009 – The Inner Gallery, Bois d’Orange, Saint Lucia
2009 – Office du Tourisme, Marigot, Saint Martin
2009 – Caribbean Crossroads the World, Casa di Kultura,  Curaçao
2008 – Galerie Nola Hatterman, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2007 – Ras Mosera and Ro Heilbron, Gallery Pauw, Oisterwijk, the Netherlands
2006 – With Leni Sweep, Axum Art Café, Philipsburg, Sint Martin
2005 – Black National Fine Art Exhibition, New York, USA
2004- Romare Bearden Homecoming, Bearden Foundation, New York, USA
2004 – The Art Venue, The Puck Building, New York, USA
2003 – Norman Parish Gallery, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., USA
2003 – Madrissim Art, Espace Daniel Sorano, Paris, France
2003 – Café des Arts, Charlestown, Nevis
2000 – FACES, Mosera Fine Art Gallery, Philipsburg, Sint Martin
2002 – Art Expo, Jacob Javits Center, New York, USA
2001 – Between Lines, Centro Cultural Cariforo, Dominican Republic
2001 – Between Lines, FX Bowling, Sint Martin
2001 – Between Lines, Brussels, Belgium
2001 – Arte Tent, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2000  – Art Expo, Jacob Javits Center, New York, USA