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Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Judith Salmon

The Jamaica Biennial 2017 closed on June 10, after a two week extension, but we continue to build our online archive on the Biennial with features of the artists who were included in the exhibition.

Judith Salmon was born in 1952, in Kingston, Jamaica. She holds a Graduate certificate in Museum Studies from the University of South Florida; an MFA from Johnson State University, Johnson, Vermont; and a BA in Liberal Arts from Norwich University, Vermont, USA. She also attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, USA. She has exhibited widely in Jamaica, the USA, Canada, Cuba and Puerto Rico and is represented in public and private collections, including the collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica. The dynamics of memory and the resonance of materials are at the heart of her work in installation, assemblage and other mixed media. Her work was recently featured in the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Explorations 3: Seven Women Artists (2015) exhibition. She lives in Kingston, Jamaica.

Website: judithsalmon.com

By nationalgalleryofjamaica

The National Gallery of Jamaica is the oldest and largest public art gallery in the Anglophone Caribbean. It has a comprehensive collection of early, modern and contemporary art from Jamaica along with smaller Caribbean and international holdings. A significant part of its collections is on permanent view. The NGJ also has an active exhibition programme, which includes retrospectives of work by major Jamaican artists, thematic exhibitions, guest-curated exhibitions, touring exhibitions that originate outside of the island, and its flagship exhibition, the Kingston Biennial. The NGJ offers a range of educational services, included guided tours, lectures and panel discussions, and children's art programmes and also operates a gift shop and coffee shop.

One reply on “Jamaica Biennial 2017 – Invited Artists: Judith Salmon”

It is nice to see work that is so developed both in imagery and abstraction – the work commands the space it occupies while drawing us in – Best Juliana

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