Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (b. 1971, Sheroana, Amazonas, Venezuela) is a Yanomami artist who lives and works between the community of Platanal in the Upper Orinoco and Caracas. In 1992 he learned to make paper from local plant fibers with the Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata, with whom he founded the Yanomami Owëmamotima project. Since then he has worked to recover the oral memory, cosmology and traditions of his people through drawing, painting and monotypes on handmade paper of shiki, abaca, mulberry bark and other plants. His synthetic, minimal language of lines, dots, grids and circles draws on Yanomami body painting and basketry, evoking the insects, animals and spirits of the Upper Orinoco and forming a growing visual lexicon of Yanomami culture. He was selected for "The Milk of Dreams" at the 2022 Venice Biennale and has had solo exhibitions at MASP in São Paulo. He is represented globally by ABRA in Caracas.
