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Edna Swithenbank Manley, OM (28 February 1900 – 9 February 1987) [1] is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica.She was known primarily as a sculptor, although her oeuvre included significant drawings and paintings. [2]
This is a list of Jamaican artists (in alphabetical order by last name) of various genres, who are notable and either born in Jamaica or associated with Jamaica, including sculptors, ceramists, painters, photographers and designers.
Ebony Grace Patterson [1] (born 1981, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born visual artist and educator. She is known for her large and colorful tapestries created out of various materials such as, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments.
Camille Chedda's work was included in the travelling exhibition Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (2017–2019), Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, California; The Jamaica Biennial (2017), National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica; the 4th Ghetto Biennale (2015), Port-Au-Prince, Haiti; and Jamaica Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the ...
González might be best known for a Jamaican-government commissioned 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) statue created in honor of Bob Marley, [5] which is currently on display at a museum in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. [1] The somewhat abstract statue depicts a figure with a tree trunk for a lower body and a distorted face. [1]
This is a list of women artists who were born in Jamaica or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Kofi Kayiga (born December 1943), [1] formerly known as Ricardo Wilkins, [2] is a Jamaican-born artist and educator, who migrated to the US, after periods spent in the UK and Uganda. [3] He has exhibited widely internationally and since the 1960s has taught fine art at various institutions, becoming a professor at the Massachusetts College of ...
Cox has "dedicated her career to deconstructing stereotypes and to reconfiguring the black woman's body, using her nude form as a subject." [5] She uses herself as a primary model in order to promote an idea of "self-love" as articulated by bell hooks in her book Sisters of the Yam, because as Cox writes in an artist's statement, "slavery stripped black men and women of their dignity and ...