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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – The Awards
The Jamaica Biennial is one of the big highlights of Jamaica’s cultural calendar, and also a very important one, not only for the local visual arts community but also for the art world of the broader...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Special Projects: Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
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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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Special Projects: Andrea Chung
Throughout the run of the Jamaica Biennial 2017, which continues until May 28, we will be posting short features on the participating artists. This one is the last on the special projects by...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: David Boxer
David Boxer – Passage: Flotsam and Jetsam III (Zong), 2014-2015 We continue our short features on the artists in the Jamaica Biennial 2017 with the invited artists, starting with David Boxer, whose...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Hope Brooks
Hope Brooks – Goat Island For A Marine Park, 2016 The work by Hope Brooks in the Jamaica Biennial 2017 is on view at the NGJ on the Kingston Waterfront, one of three locations for this year’s Biennial,...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Michael Chambers
Michael Chambers – Isaac (2014) The submission to the Jamaica Biennial 2017 by invited artist Michael Chambers is on view at the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston until May 28. Michael Chambers...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Guide to the Devon House Interventions
Devon House (photo: Veerle Poupeye) We present additional information on the Jamaica Biennial 2017 exhibition at Devon House. This document will also be available as a free handout at Devon House....
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Young Talent: Domanie Hong
Click to view slideshow. Here is the sixth of our short posts on the artists in the Young Talent 2015 exhibition, which opens on August 30: Domanie Hong (née Denniston) was born in Kingston, Jamaica in...
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Young Talent 2015: Howard Myrie
Click to view slideshow. Here is the seventh of our short posts on the artists in the Young Talent 2015 exhibition, which opens on August 30: Howard Myrie was born in 1982 in Cambridge, St James,...
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Young Talent 2015: Richard Nattoo
Richard Nattoo – Oblivion (2015) Here is another of our short posts on the artists in the Young Talent 2015 exhibition, which opens on Sunday, August 30: Richard Nattoo was born 1993, in St Catherine,...
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Young Talent 2015: Avagay Osborne
Avagay Osborne – Untitled (2015) Here is another of our short posts on the artists in the Young Talent 2015 exhibition, which opens tomorrow, Sunday, August 30: Avagay Osborne was born in 1990 in...
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Young Talent 2015: Cosmo Whyte
Cosmo Whyte – YOU Know WE Can’t Swim Right? (2015) Here is the last of our short posts on the artists in the Young Talent 2015 exhibition, which opens today, Sunday, August 30. Doors will be open from...
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Summer Workshops 2015
The following was contributed by our Education Department: In last few years, the NGJ Education Department has been quite keen on developing various innovative educational programmes, particularly...
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Video Feature on Young Talent 2015
Interviews with the ten artists in Young Talent 2015 (August 30-November 14, 2015), National Gallery of Jamaica. Videography and director: Leevan Rainford; producer: Stephanie Channer.
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Last Sundays, September 27, 2015: featuring Young Talent 2015 and Quilt
The National Gallery of Jamaica’s Last Sundays programme for September 27, 2015 will feature the Young Talent 2015 exhibition and a performance by the Quilt Performing Arts Company. Young Talent 2015...
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Jamaica’s Art Pioneers: Rhoda Jackson (1913-1971)
Rhoda Jackson -Washing by the River – (1945, Collection: NGJ) The Jamaican painter and designer Rhoda Jackson is usually mentioned in accounts of Jamaican art history, but has not received the more...
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National Gallery to host panel discussion for 2015 Rex Nettleford Arts...
The National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ) is pleased to partner with the Edna Manley College’s 2015 Rex Nettleford Arts Conference to present a panel discussion on the various critical issues addressed by...
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Last Sundays, October 25, 2015, featuring Michael Sean Harris
The National Gallery of Jamaica’s Last Sundays programme for October 25, 2015 will feature the Young Talent 2015 exhibition and a special musical performance by Michael Sean Harris. Young Talent 2015,...
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SATURDAY ART-TIME: THE PARENTS EDITION
Every Saturday, for the month of November 2015, the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ) will be hosting a workshop series entitled “Saturday Art-Time: the Parents’ Edition.” Co-ordinated by the NGJ...
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Silver Musgrave Medal for Art: Donnette Ingrid Zacca
The National Gallery of Jamaica wishes to congratulate Donnette Zacca on her Silver Musgrave Medal, which was awarded today, and we are pleased to reproduce the award citation: “The Institute of...
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