Rinella Alfonso b. 1995

Rinella Alfonso (1995, Willemstad, Curaçao) is a painter whose layered, evocative oil paintings explore memory, spirituality, and identity. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

Rinella Alfonso’s work forms a visual bridge between Curaçao and the Netherlands. In her paintings, she explores and celebrates her identity. She describes painting as a way to break that identity into fragments — memories, thoughts, ideas, sounds, and feelings. Her style is layered and evocative: through transparent layers of paint, objects emerge that refer to the personal and the spiritual, while bold lines evoke associations with boundaries and confinement. The atmosphere in her work is intimate and mysterious — at times subtly unsettling.