Deborah Anzinger (born in 1978) is a Jamaican artist who creates painting, sculpture, video and sound to "interrogate and reconfigure aesthetic syntax that relate us to land and gendered and raced bodies". Anzinger works as an artist has been featured in several exhibitions, galleries and museums which include the National Gallery of Jamaica,

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and the

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Early life and career

Anzinger was born in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica in 1978. She began her tertiary education at the

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in 1996 and went on to complete a BS from Washington College in 2001, where she majored in Biology with a concentration in Plant Physiology, and a PhD in

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and

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from

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with a concentration in HIV Neuropathogenesis.

Career

She is the founder of New Local Space (NLS) in

Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit (landform), sand spit which connects the town of Por ...

. Anzinger's writing has been published in ''

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'' and in ''Seen'', a journal of the BlackStar Projects.

Exhibitions

* ''New Roots: 10 Emerging Artists'', July 28–September 30, 2013, National Gallery of Jamaica *''Field Notes: Extracts,'' June 18, 2015 – September 27, 2015, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts *''An Unlikely Birth'', April 26–August 11, 2019,

* ''The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art'', July 18, 2019 – June 7, 2020,

* ''Resisting Paradise'', September 19–December 8, 2019, Fonderie Darling, Montréal (Canada) * 35th Bienal de São Paulo, July, 2023 - December, 2024, Fundaçao Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil)

Collections (selection)

, Florida

Awards and grants

* 2004 American Association of University Women fellowship * 2016 fellowship to

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* 2018

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Grant * 2020 Soros Arts Fellow * 2022 MacDowell

Early life and career

Career

Exhibitions

Collections (selection)

Awards and grants

Bibliography

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