Yuran Henrique

Yuran (São Vicente, Cape Verde, 1993) is a visual artist whose practice moves between illustration, drawing, caricature, and installation, exploring the ephemeral, spiritual, and symbolic dimensions of social representations. Working with diverse materials and visual languages, his work reflects on identity, memory, and contemporary culture within both African and global contexts. In 2014 he moved to the city of Praia, where he began to actively develop his artistic career. Since 2015 he has collaborated weekly as a caricaturist for the newspaper Expresso das Ilhas, producing socially and politically engaged visual commentary while also working on illustration projects, books, murals, and editorial commissions. His first solo exhibition, Arterias do Tempo (2016), was presented with the support of the Municipality of Praia. In 2017 he presented Reversos at the Ildo Lobo Cultural Palace and participated in the Cerveira Biennial in Portugal for young creators from CPLP countries. He has held residencies at CAAM in Gran Canaria and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Angola. In 2022 he participated in the Ásíkó Art School program in Lagos and received the Africa No Filter Emerging Artists Fellows award.