Caribbean Artists A-Z
View my articles about Caribbean and Diaspora Artists. Research over 100 artists, their sites and thumbnails of their art work in alphabetical order. Click on artists names for links to the full story or artists' websites or watch videos. Students, cite this material with appropriate references guided by copyright. 'Fair use' allows you to use images in thumbnail size only.
There is something ethereal about Kereina Changfatt's work. They are tender fragile forms that speak to temporality and the difficulty of location. In many ways they represent the artist's own life experience and her sense of dislocation, at once divided between memory and loss; between past and present, between enigma and exposure. Kerienna takes us with her as she navigates the spaces and relationships of her life, held together by the thinnest of threads.
What binds Changfatt'…
Camille Chedda's talent is precocious. As a fairly recent graduate of the Edna Manley College (Dip.Hons, 2007) she has already established an enviable exhibition record, having her works appear in in two Jamaica National Biennials (2006, 2008) as well as the Curator's Eye exhibition Materializing Slavery, where her slave ship imagery shared space with established artists such as Omari Ra and David Boxer. Her success speaks to the sophistication of her vision as well as her ability to execute…
Educated at the Jamaica School of Art, Margaret Chen left Jamaica after graduating with distinction to pursue post-graduate studies in Canada at York University, Ontario. It was in Canada also that she began her career as a sculptor, exhibiting in a number of Toronto galleries with increasing success. It is significant however that in the 1980s Margaret chose to return to Jamaica for her first solo exhibition at the Upstairs Downstairs Galleries; to establish her studio, and to become a…
Albert Chong is an contemporary artist working in the mediums of photography, installation, sculpture and artist books. His works have dealt directly with personal mysticism, spirituality, race, identity and numerous other topics as well as celebrating the beauty of images and objects. His main bodies of photographic work have been in the genres of still lifes in black and white and color.
These works range from playful juxtapositions and formal still lifes to works that…
Alexander Cooper studied at The Jamaica School of Arts and Crafts in its earliest days of operation. He came from a generation of painters that were the children of a newly formed Jamaican nationalism. He grew up admiring the works of other Jamaican painters such as Albert Huie and Ralph Campbell and took to painting in a similar manner creating genre scenes that documented everyday scenes of Jamaica’s city and rural life. As with many artists in this period, after leaving the art school in…
Cecil Cooper was one of the first students to graduate from the Jamaica School of Arts diploma programme in 1966. During his time there he was taught by artists such as Barrington Watson, who was then Director of Studies and Head of the Painting Department, Karl Parboosingh, Vernal Reuben and Milton Harley and Albert Huie who was the ‘…
Keisha Castello is a Jamaican artist living and working in Kingston. She studied painting the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts and graduated in 2004. Since then her work has been shown at the National Gallery of Jamaica and in other significant group exhibitions. She held her first solo show at the Mutual life Gallery in 2008.
Keisha Castello's work echoes Naipaul's vain hope for order in an environment destined for chaos and deterioration. She is preoccupied…
Renee Cox is perhaps Jamaica's foremost contemporary photographer. Educated in the USA, her images explore issues of identity through the use of her own shifting personas such as female super heroes Raje, Nanny and Aunt Jemima. Additionally, she challenges perceptions of the Caribbean and island life by exploring stereotypes that inform visitor's fantasies. Cox is not afraid to be controversial and she regularly exploits norms of sexuality by including her own…