BAGIRA is a 28 year-old selftaught artist based in Curaçao. She quit job as a sales agent at an accountant firm 2 weeks after she discovered her talent and decided to paint full time based on portrait commission work. After a while she started giving classes and discovered her love for murals. Within her career of just 8 years as an independent artist, she is now one of the most renowned artists of Curaçao. Painting mostly portraits of imaginary and real people, she captures the beauty in a sense that leaves most viewers in awe.
BAGIRA grew up all around the world, being born to Hungarian mother and Algerian father, before she turned 19 and moved to Curaçao to live with her big sister, she lived in the Netherlands, Hungary, Algeria and Belgium which had a huge effect on the way she views people and cultures, especially being Kabyle, an Indigenous North-African. When life got tough and she found herself living on her own when she was only 16 years old, she had no other option than to become independent in many ways, which led to her fearless character.
