Miko Veldkamp
Miko Veldkamp (b. Suriname 1982) is a painter based in New York who grew up in the Netherlands. He received a BFA in video and sculpture from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and was awarded the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and is a graduate of Hunter College’s MFA program in painting. Several of his works are held in the public collection of Sharjah Art Foundation, Govt. of Sharjah, UAE.
I know that if you walked into the jungle from here and kept walking in a straight line for months, you’d exit on the other side of the continent. It’s the Amazon rainforest and we are at the north end of it. My grandmother's house is made of wooden planks, corrugated sheets for a roof, and glass jalousie windows. She wears a traditional sarong.
