Nara Winston Bethancourt is a Dominican-American multidisciplinary artist (1998) currently based in The Netherlands. As a child, she was raised across the world in countries throughout Latin America, and Asia until 2010, when she returned with her family to her mother’s native country, the Dominican Republic.

    After graduating from the Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic (2018), she moved to the Netherlands and finished her Bachelors in Fine Arts from The Royal Academy of
Art in The Hague.

    Nara’s work is based on a merging of visual and material elements of disparate backgrounds to create one visual space, be it a painting, an installation or a digital collage. Her work represents the present through her lens, but is composed of the past, of cultural traditions, religious symbols, family, and the visual language of the place she comes from.

    Coming from a highly catholic and family oriented country like the Dominican Republic, much of her practice has a strong religious undertone and is a reflection of the role which religion plays
in her community and in her life. Through her practice, Nara investigates tropes that stand out to her such as Dominican elitism, the tourism industry in the Caribbean, and family dynamics and its relation to catholicism in the Dominican Repulibc.