Charo Oquet is a Dominican-born, Miami-based artist, curator and cultural producer whose interdisciplinary work spans painting, photography, performance and installation. Her art explores displacement, identity, migration, gender and sociopolitical issues, with a focus on decolonial aesthetics and contemporary culture. An arts activist, she founded the Miami Arts Collaborative, which later became Edge Zones, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the arts and artists, especially within marginalized communities. Her work has appeared in the XIII Havana Biennial (2019), "Relational Undercurrents" at MOLAA and the Frost Art Museum and "Mami Wata" at the Fowler Museum, and in 2011 she won the grand prize at the 26th National Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo. Her work is in the collections of the Bass Museum of Art and the Frost Art Museum. She holds a BFA from Florida International University.
