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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Tina Spiro
Tina Spiro – DEEP SEE – Phase I (2017) Here is another post from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives. Tina Spiro is a New York born artist who began her artistic career as the protégé of American...
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Last Sundays – June 25, 2016: feat. EarthKry
The National Gallery of Jamaica’s Last Sundays programme for June 25, 2017, will feature a special exhibition of Selections from the National Collection and music by EarthKry. The EarthKry band was...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Phillip Supersad
Phillip Supersad – Fragment 1 (2017) The Jamaica Biennial 2017 has now closed but we continue to post features on the participating artists. Phillip Supersad was born in 1957, in Manchester, Jamaica....
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Samere Tansley
Samere Tansley – Banana Red (2017) Samere Tansley participated in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017 with the painting Banana Red. Here is a short feature: Samere Tansley was born in 1944, in...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Jasmine Thomas-Girvan
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan -Parallel Realities, Dwelling I’m The Heartland of My People (2016), installation (detail) Jasmine Thomas-Girvan was the recipient of the Aaron Matalon Award in the recently...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Phillip Thomas
Phillip Thomas – High-Sis in the Garden of Heathen (2017) Here is another feature from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives: Phillip Thomas was born in 1980, in Kingston, Jamaica. Thomas received his BFA...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Heather Sutherland Wade
Heather Sutherland Wade – White Tiger Lily (n.d.) We continue to post short features on the participating artists from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives: Heather Sutherland Wade was born in 1948, in...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Raymond Watson
Raymond Watson – Roots of Rebellion (2017) The Jamaica Biennial 2017 closed on June 10, after having been extended for two weeks. We continue publishing items from our archives on the artists and works...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Donnette Zacca
Donnette Zacca – Empty Promises (n.d.) – left panel Here is the final post in our series on the invited artists in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017: Donnette Zacca was born in 1957, in St...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Deborah Anzinger
This is the first of what will be our final series of posts on the Jamaica Biennial 2017, on the juried artists in the exhibition. The juried section of the 2017 Biennial was selected by two...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Greg Bailey
Greg Bailey – Colonial Legacies (2016) Another feature from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives. Greg Bailey was one of the winners of the 2017 Dawn Scott Memorial Award. Greg Bailey was born in 1986,...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Kid Bazzle
Kid Bazzle – Sister Nature I (2016) Another feature on the artists in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017: Kid Bazzle was born in 1991, in St Andrew, Jamaica. He is a graduate of the University...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Kimani Beckford
Kimani Beckford – Young, Gifted and Black (2016) Here is another feature on one of the artists in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial 2017: Kimani Beckford was born in 1988, in St Catherine, Jamaica....
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Simon Benjamin
Simon Benjamin was a first-time exhibitor in the recently closed Jamaica Biennial, 2017 edition. Here is a short feature on his work. Simon Benjamin was born in 1979, in St Andrew, Jamaica. He holds a...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Claudia Beyer
Claudia Beyer – Splendour in the Grass (2017) Claudia Beyer was a first-time National Gallery of Jamaica exhibitor in the Jamaica Biennial 2017. She was born in 1956, in New York City. She is a...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Aisha Bell
Aisha Bell – Lick (n.d., still from video) Aisha Bell exhibited for the second time at the National Gallery in the Jamaica Biennial 2017 and is one of a several Jamaican Diaspora artists who have...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Jacqueline Bishop
Jacqueline Bishop‘s contribution to the Jamaica Biennial 2017 was a word-based audiovisual installation titled Touch Me Secretly, which was based on her Female Sexual Desires project, for which women...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Venise Black
Venise Bladk – Kidist Dengel Miriam (The Holy Virgin Mary) (2016) Venise Black was a first-time exhibitor at the National Gallery of Jamaica in the Jamaica Biennial 2017. was born in 1987, in St Ann,...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Alicia Brown
Alicia Brown – Exchange (2016) Alicia Brown was one of the winners of the Dawn Scott Memorial Award in the Jamaica Biennial 2017. Alicia Brown was born in 1981, in St Ann, Jamaica. She attended the...
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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Juried Artists: Camille Chedda
Camille Chedda – Catastrophe of Liberation (2017) While we prepare for our upcoming exhibitions, here is another short feature from our Jamaica Biennial 2017 archives. Camille Chedda was born in 1985,...
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