A Growing Contemporary Art World

A Growing Contemporary Art World

The diaspora of Jamaican and Caribbean artists participating in Biennials help to expose local art audiences to new themes, ideas and approaches to art. Jamaican artists who studied abroad return with expanded ideas about art making.

It is now not uncommon for media art, performance, activist art and installation to be seen in exhibitions. While Painting keeps its stronghold, the content of paintings has developed in new directions.

Contemporary painters are reflecting on the culture of Black Art, making political statements about identity, commenting on contemporary realities, questioning pop culture and so on. 

The works of Phillip Thomas, Kimani Beckford and Alicia Brown attest to how artists are as activated and involved in contemporary subject matter as artists of earlier generations.

This flurry of independently initiated activity has also attracted the attention of international curators who have featured contemporary Jamaican art in major exhibitions in New Orleans, Brooklyn, Bristol, London, Connecticut, Oslo and Mississauga.  

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An expert from an article titled Key Moments in The Jamaican Art Scene: Development & History by Oneika Russell and commissioned by Experience Jamaïque. Thanks to Kimani Beckford, Marlon James and Stefan Clarke for making their artworks available.

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