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Awai may refer to: People * , cyclist * Nicole Awai Nicole Awai (born 1966) is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York and Austin, Texas. Her work captures both Caribbean and American landscapes and experiences and engages in cultural critique. She works in many media including painting, ... (born 1966), American artist and educator Places * Awai Station, Japan {{dab ...
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Nicole Awai
Nicole Awai (born 1966) is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York and Austin, Texas. Her work captures both Caribbean and American landscapes and experiences and engages in cultural critique. She works in many media including painting, photography, drawing, installations, ceramics, and sculpture as well as found objects. Early life She was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. She is of Afro-Asian ancestry. Education She received her Bachelor of Arts in 1991, and a 1996 Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking, both from the University of South Florida. In 1997 she attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Career Early in her career in 2000 Holland Cotter remarked in the ''New York Times'' that Awai's then figurative paintings were sourced with "unprettified technique and a metaphorical bent" and that West Indies Colonialism was her subject. He speculated that in her overlaid images representing memories of the island of her childhood, the ...
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