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List Of Jamaican Artists
This is a list of Jamaican artists (in alphabetical order by last name) of various genres, who are Wikipedia:ARTIST, notable and either born in Jamaica or associated with Jamaica, including sculptors, ceramists, painters, photographers and designers. A * Carl Abrahams (1911–2005) *Panteha Abareshi (born 1999) * Pearl Alcock (1934–2006) * Esther Anderson (Jamaican actress), Esther Anderson (born 1946) B * Lindsay Barrett (born 1941) * Isaac Mendes Belisario (1795–1849) * William Berryman (active 1808–1816) * Jacqueline Bishop (living) * Hope Brooks (born 1944) C * Margaret Chen (born 1951) * Leonard Chin (born 1953) * Walter Chin (living) * Albert Chong (born 1958) * Renée Cox (born 1960) * Thomas Craskell (died 1790) D * John Dunkley (1891–1947) E * Gloria Escoffery (1923–2002) F * Fowokan (George Kelly; born 1943) * Armet Francis (born 1945) * Ania Freer G * Christopher González (1943–2008) * Lorna Goodison (born 1947) H * Guy Harvey (born 1955) * Ras Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTIST
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the show business, entertainment business to refer to Actor, actors, Musician, musicians, Singing, singers, Dance, dancers and other Performing arts#Performers, performers, in which they are known as ''Artiste'' instead. ''Artiste'' (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe Writer, writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; "author" is generally used instead. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older, broader meanings of the word "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Escoffery
Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic that contributed to post-colonial arts and culture during the mid-to-late 20th century. Biography Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Dr. William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia, Escoffery attended St Hilda's High School, Brown's Town. In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently studied in England at the Slade School of Fine Arts (1950–52), and the University of the West Indies The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in t ...'s School of Education. Having held her first solo exhibition in Kingston in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Natalie Madden
Tamara Natalie Madden (16 August 1975 – 4 November 2017) was a Jamaican-born painter and mixed-media artist working and living in the United States. Madden's paintings are allegories whose subjects are the people of the African diaspora. Early life Madden was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica. She moved to America from Jamaica permanently when she was an adolescent. She studied at several universities including the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 1997 Madden became ill with IgA nephropathy. While ill, Madden rediscovered art. Art helped her to heal emotionally, so she decided that it was important to pursue it further. She received a kidney transplant from her brother in 2001, and participated in her first art exhibition that same year. Her first solo exhibition was in 2004, and it garnered her an interview with the late James Auer of the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel''. Career After her solo exhibition in 2004, Madden relocated near Atlanta, Georgia. She met her mentors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave McKenzie (artist)
Dave McKenzie is a visual and performance artist born in Kingston, Jamaica. Recent solo exhibitions include “Dave McKenzie: Everything’s Alright, Nothing’s Okay!” at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; “Dave McKenzie,” at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado; “Screen Doors on Submarines,” REDCAT, Los Angeles; and “Momentum 8: Dave McKenzie,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. McKenzie's work was included in “Etched in Collective History,” at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX; “Prospect.1” New Orleans, LA; and in other group exhibitions at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI; the New Museum, New York, NY; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, in “The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Kitchen, New York, NY; and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. He received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Errol Lloyd
Errol Lloyd (born 1943)"Errol Lloyd. Born 1943 in Jamaica" Diaspora Artists. is a n-born painter, sculptor, writer, art critic, editor and arts administrator. Since the 1960s he has been based in London, to which he originally travelled to study law. Now well known as a book illustrator, he was runner-up for the in 1973 for his work on ''My Brother Sean'' by Petronella Breinburg. Having become involved with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria LaYacona
Maria LaYacona (1926–2019) was an American-born photographer who worked primarily in Jamaica. For its first three decades, she was the official photographer for the country's National Dance Theatre Company. Early life LaYacona's parents emigrated from Italy to America and she was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 18 November 1926. Her father ran a portrait studio from the family home and she and her brother both assisted him in his darkroom. She studied at the Winona School of Professional Photography in Winona Lake, Indiana, before moving to New York City in 1950 where she supported herself by taking photographs for publicity shots and society weddings. She worked as a photojournalist for ''Time'' and ''Life'' and, in 1955 accepted an assignment from ''Sports Illustrated'', traveling to Jamaica to shoot the test series between Australia and the West Indies The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kofi Kayiga
Kofi Kayiga (born December 1943), JamaicaArts.com. formerly known as Ricardo Wilkins, is a n-born artist and educator, who migrated to the US, after periods spent in the UK and . He has exhibited widely internationally and since the 1960s has taught fine art at various institutions, becoming a professor at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Huie
Albert Huie (31 December 1920 – 31 January 2010) was a Jamaican painter. Early life and education Born in Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, Huie moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old;Jamaicans in the US Mourn Passing of Albert Huie , Jamaican Information Service in the 1930s he became part of the "Institute Group" at the Institute of Jamaica, where he received his first formal training with Armenian artist Koren der Harootian. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ras Daniel Heartman
Ras Daniel Heartman (7 January 1942 – 1990),Howard Campbell"Trailblazing Ras Daniel Heartman" ''Jamaica Observer'', 31 August 2012. born Lloyd George Roberts, was a Jamaican artist and religious leader. He is considered to be one of the most recognised artists in the Rastafarian art movement, his drawings were widely distributed around the world as prints and he designed a number of well-known reggae album covers in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he grew up in the tough Whitfield Town area. Heartman featured in the 1972 film '' The Harder They Come'' playing the part of Pedro, the best friend of Jimmy Cliff's character Ivan. IMDb. Heartman emigrated to |
Guy Harvey
Guy Harvey (born 16 September 1955) is a Jamaican marine wildlife artist and conservationist. His depictions of sealife, especially of sportfish such as marlin, are popular with sportfishermen and have been reproduced in prints, posters, T-shirts, jewellery, clothing, and other consumer items. Harvey is also a very vocal and active advocate for marine conservation, having established the Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida as well as the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation, an organisation that funds scientific research and educational initiatives. Life Guy Harvey was born in Bad Lippspringe, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany on 16 September 1955 while his father, Philip Harvey, was serving as a Gunnery Officer in the British Army. He grew up in Jamaica. Harvey is a 10th generation Jamaican of English heritage as his family immigrated to Jamaica in 1664. Harvey attended Aberdeen University in Scotland, graduating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Goodison
Lorna Gaye Goodison (born 1 August 1947)Ring, Deborah A. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 September 2013. is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies."Lorna Goodison" LSA International Institute, University of Michigan. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017 (succeeding Mervyn Morris), serving in the role until 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher González
Christopher Francis González, OD (1943 – 2 August 2008) was a Puerto Rican-Jamaican expressionistic sculptor and painter. Biography González was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1943. He had a Puerto Rican father and Jamaican mother. González graduated in 1963 from the Jamaica School of Art (The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts), where he majored in sculpture. He later became a faculty member at the school. González earned his Master's degree in Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He taught at schools and institutions in Jamaica and the USA (California and Atlanta, Georgia) during his career. He was influenced by Edna Manley and Pablo Picasso. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
