Clivin Victor

Clivin Rubadiri Victor is a multi-media artist from Trinidad & Tobago working in 8 mediums (painting, theatre, music, film, photography, carnival arts, writing & publishing, design & curation, and lecturing). He is founder of the Artists’ Coalition of Trinidad & Tobago- T&T’s primary artist representative body. His multi-media work and multiple apprenticeships with Elder Master Artists informs his art and activism, and has led him to become a scholar with new critical takes on contemporary cultural theory. Rubadiri is one of the 75 Distinguished Alumni of the University of the West Indies.
Author of ‘Meditation on the Traditions’- a photo-essay on Trinidad Carnival's traditional masquerade- and publisher of ‘Generation Lion Magazine’- the largest glossy magazine in the Caribbean- Rubadiri will publish 6 books in 2022, including Book 3 in his ‘New Adventures of Anansi’ novel series.
Rubadiri is founder and Artistic Director of ‘Wire Bend Folklore Theatre’. The troupe combines costumes created by traditional Master Artisans with interactive digital animation onstage to depict ancestral and contemporary folklore.
‘’Through 8 mediums my mode has principally been Magical Realism. Tales told with Caribbean wit and ancestral aesthetic power. I’m interested in reparative justice. In redemption of marginalized lives. In reclaiming hidden histories…’’