Nasaria Chollette

Storyteller, Poet, Artist, and Cultural Activist, Nasaria has always sought to understand her life journey through artistic expression. Her work is intuitive, passionate and bold. A teller of stories, Nasaria has published two children’s books and has had her poetry published locally and internationally.

A founding member of the Caymanian Artists Collective, Native Sons, since 1996, Nasaria has exhibited her works at the C.I. National Gallery, the C.I. National Museum, and numerous private exhibition spaces. Her works are a significant part of the National Collection, including her Whomper installation, “2000 Years in These Shoes”, “Maiden Plumb” (McCoy prize winner 2006), and acclaimed work, “The Women Have become the Truth; for Madiba”.
In June 2019, Nasaria won the Bendal Hydes Award in the 1st Cayman Islands Biennial, Cross Currents, with an art installation entitled, “Becoming Again”.

Drawing from the wealth of Caymanian traditional art techniques, and pulling from her ancestors' rich culture and heritage, Nasaria’s intertwine these elements into contemporary artefacts that not only honour the past but illicit new conversations around the dichotomy between preservation, modernization and women’s roles in both.