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Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow: 8 Years to Freedom
The Jamaica Biennial 2017 is currently on view at the National Gallery of Jamaica and Devon House in Kingston and at National Gallery West in Montego Bay and continues at all three sites until May 28....
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Jasmine Thomas-Girvan Wins the Aaron Matalon Award
In “Jasmine Thomas-Girvan Snags Second Aaron Matalon Award,” Tanya Batson-Savage (Susumba) reports the good news that Jamaican artist Jasmine Thomas-Girvan has made art history by being the first...
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National Gallery of Jamaica features Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan was the recipient of the Aaron Matalon Award in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017. Her two installations were on view at Devon House in Kingston, Jamaica. Description...
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2017 British Council TAARE Artist Camille Chedda
The British Council just announced that Jamaican-based visual artist Camille Chedda has begun her residency at Hospitalfield in Scotland where she will be based for eight weeks. Camille Chedda was...
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Art Exhibition—“Double Dutch: Of Skin and Sand” (NAGB)
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas presents “Double Dutch: Of Skin and Sand” with Leasho Johnson (Jamaica) and Edrin Symonette (Bahamas), which opens on July 21, 7:00-8:30pm, and will be on view...
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Material and Context: Alexandre Arrechea and Nari Ward
Galeria Nara Roesler-New York has been hosting a “Summer Guests” series. This time, they present “Material and Context”—with Caribbean artists Alexandre Arrechea and Nari Ward in conversation at the...
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Jamaican and British artists in “We have met before”
As a follow-up to our previous post We Have Met Before: National Gallery of Jamaica/, here is a reminder and a series of important links provided by Annalee Davis (Caribbean Arts Manager, British...
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Jamaican Artist Tamara Natalie Madden Passes Away
Tamara Natalie Madden—born in 1975 in Jamaica and died in 2017 in the United States (Atlanta, Georgia) was a painter and mixed-media artist who taught at Spelman College. Madden’s paintings have been...
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Exhibition of Self Taught Jamaican Artists
An exhibition of self-taught Jamaican artists—from Allan Zion to Zaccheus Powell—will be on view on November 15, from 7:00 to 9:30pm at AMAICRAFT, The Trade Center, 30 Red Hills Road (Shop #27),...
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In Memoriam: Valerie Bloomfield-Ambrose
The National Gallery of Jamaica blog has just announced the death of artist and educator Valerie Bloomfield-Ambrose (1934-2017): The National Gallery of Jamaica has received the sad news of the...
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Linda Blackford reviews Ebony G. Patterson
[Many thanks to Dominique Brebion (AICA) for bringing this item to our attention.] In LEXGO, Linda Blackford writes about Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson, saying, “You may not know about this UK...
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Art Exhibition: Sophia Dawson’s “Correspondence”
Caribbean Life News features Sophia Dawson, an artist of Jamaican heritage, who was inspired to create an exhibit about political prisoners. Her painted portraits of black political prisoners,...
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Ebony G. Patterson’s Amazing Year
The immediate past executive director of the National Gallery of Jamaica, Dr. Veerle Poupeye, recently published an article on Jamaican artist Ebony G Patterson’s recent trajectory, successes, and...
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Jamaica through a different lens: “By the Rivers of Babylon”
In “Two sides of Jamaica: Exhibit analyzes country’s perception,” Alexandra Simon (Caribbean Life) reviews Jacqueline Bishop’s new exhibition,“By the Rivers of Babylon,” which opened on March 30, and...
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Art Exhibition: John Dunkley at the National Gallery of Jamaica
“John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night” and “Daylight Come: Picturing Dunkley’s Jamaica” are on view at the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, Jamaica. Both exhibitions close on July 29, 2018....
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New Issue: Jacqueline Bishop (4)
Jacqueline Bishop’s latest newsletter features a photograph of one of Sane Mae Dunkley’s colorful, hand-made mats. Dunkley passed away last December, in Bishop’s words, “right at the moment when her...
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Panel Discussion: “Perspectives on Dunkley” (NGJ)
The National Gallery of Jamaica will host a panel discussion entitled “Perspectives on Dunkley” on Saturday, July 21, 2018, at 2:00pm. The discussion will be moderated by independent Jamaican curator...
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Protoje on the Dying Art of Rasta Crowns
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. In the latest issue of Vogue (16 July 2018) Rachel Hahn (“Jamaican Reggae Star Protoje on the Dying Art of Rasta Crowns”) focuses...
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Davidoff Art Initiative’s Fall 2018 Residencies
Congratulations to Jamaican artists Katrina Coombs and Oneika Russell, and Haitian curator/art critic Giscard Bouchotte on their Fall 2018 Davidoff Art Initiative (DAI) residencies. Coombs and will be...
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Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses
A new exhibition by Jamaica artist Ebony G. Patterson will open on November 9, 2018, and will be on view until May 5, 2019, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): “Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the...
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