Nazrina Rodjan

is a Dutch-Surinamese visual artist of Hindustani (indentured Indian) descent. Rodjan was born and raised in Rotterdam and holds a BFA from St. Joost School of Art and Design. Rodjan primarily works in graphite and oil. Her work represents themes of migration, queerness and diaspora, and a significant part of her work focuses on portraiture: portraits of people of color, ancestral photographs and colonial postcards. She is committed to tell marginalized and invisible stories using traditional painting techniques. She spends her time painting between the Netherlands and the U.S. Her project KALA PANI: 1873 - 2023 is an ongoing series of oil paintings portraying indentured Indian women who were photographed as colonial objects in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on plantations in the Caribbean throughout Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.