Quinsy Gario

(Netherlands Antilles, 1984) is a Curaçaoan-Dutch poet and artist known for his work around the figure of Black Pete. He studied Master Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Utrecht University, published under the pseudonym T. Martinus in NRC Next and won the Hollandse Nieuwe Theatermaker prize in 2011. Gario also makes art installations and his work can be seen in the exhibition Identities at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam. In 2016 he was awarded the first Black Achievement Award.