JOSCELYN GARDNER
Born Barbados. Lives and works Canada
2001-03 MFA, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
1980-85 BA (Film), BFA (Printmaking), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Joscelyn Gardner: unfolding a West Indian paper theatrical, Anna Leonowens Gallery,
NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2016 Staging Mary Prince; in her own words…curated by Sophie Cressal, Bermuda National Gallery,
Hamilton, Bermuda
2014 “bringing down the flowers…”, Alberta Printmakers’ Artist Proof Gallery, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
2012 Joscelyn Gardner: Bleeding and Breeding, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario, Canada*
2011 Joscelyn Gardner: tending to an “unspeakable” past.., Galeria Adhoc, Vigo, Spain
2009 Missionary Position, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2005 White Skin, Black Kin, InterAmericas Space, CCA7, Trinidad
2005 Braided Narratives, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2005 Peau Blanche, Parente Noire, Galerie ARSENEC, CMAC a l’Atrium, Fort de France, Martinique*
2004 Joscelyn Gardner: Of Braids and Bonds, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, Florida, USA.
2004 Creole Portraits, Zemicon Gallery, Barbados
2004 White Skin, Black Kin: “Speaking the Unspeakable”, Barbados Museum, Barbados*
2003 White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece, McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario
1996 Virtual Omphalos, 23rd International Biennial of Sao Paulo,Sao Paulo, Brazil*
1994 Spirit of Woman: Eye to the Soul, The Barbados Museum Gallery, Barbados
1986 Line and Colour: Genesis, The Barbados Museum Gallery, Barbados
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 What plants can tell, Stewart-Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
2019 Botanic Fictions - On the Political Narrative of Plants, Goethe-Institute Athens, Athens, Greece
2019 Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen Triennial, Bergen, Norway
2019 Flora: Between Plants and People, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway*
2018 The Living River Project: Art, Water and Possible Worlds, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON
2018 Poeticas de la Costa, Miami New Art Festival, Aruba Art Fair, San Nicholas, Aruba
2018 Bodies Under Pressure (7 artists), Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2017 II Bienal del Sur, Pueblos en Resistencia, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas y Zona
Bienal Parque Los Caobos hasta el Museo de Arquitectura, Caracas, Venezuela
2017 A New Region of the World, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2017 We Have Met Before (4 artists), National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica*
2017 History + Infinity: A Caribbean Masters Exhibition (CARIFESTA XIII), Grande Salle, Barbados*
2017 Cosmopolis Biennial, Centre Pompidou – National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
2017 Contour Biennale 8 Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, Mechelen, Belgium
2016 Turning Tides, curated by Johanna Auguiac and Tumelo Mosaka, Memorial ACTe,
Caribbean Centre for Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Pointe-a-Pitre,
Guadeloupe *
2016 Beyond the Norm: International Juried Print Exhibition, University Galleries, Illinois State University, USA
2016 International Print Alliance Exhibition 2016, Canada submission curated by Mark Bovey,
Taimiao Art Gallery, Beijing Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China. Touring to Nanjing
Jinling Art Museum, Tianjin Art Museum, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, and Shenzhen Guanian
Original Printmaking Museum in 2017
2016 Botany Under Influence, APEXART NY, NY, USA
2015 Statements,SNAP 3, 3rd Int. Printmaking Symposium, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany*
Corporalidades, Fundación Casa Cortés, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico*
Resonance - Canadian Printmaking Shengzhi Art Centre,Beijing, China *
2014 Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain,The Lewis Walpole Library Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA *
Nuit Blanche London, 402 King St., London, ON
FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, IDB Cultural Center, Washington DC, USA
Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, USA
After the Flood, Transforming Spaces (TS2014), Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Caribbean Cream: On the Verge, BrutEdge, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, US
Critical Mass shown at SGCI Conference PRINT:MKE, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Triennial University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB; Estampa Print Fair, Madrid; 150 Cicles International Project, Fundacion ace, Buenos Aires; Fundacion CIEC, Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporanea, Betanzos; Little Art Parlour Gallery, Novi Sadl, Serbia; GaleRica in Makarska, Croatia
2013 VOLTA NY 2013, International Art Fair, ARC Special Project New York, USA
2012 New Prints 2012/Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York, USA;
Visual Arts Center of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (2013)
2012 22 Maximo Ramos International Biennial Award for Graphic Arts, Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain *
Who More Sci-fi Than Us? Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands *
Global Caribbean, Fondacion Clemente, Martinique
Canada Pavilion, 3rd Qijiang International Print Festival, Printmaking Artist Village, Qijiang, China
2011 About Change, The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA *
China Invitation Exhibition of Prints, China Print Festival, Southwestern Academy of Fine Arts
Museum, Chongqing, China
Signos Vitales: Nuevas Adquisiciones del MAC 2009-2011, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
(MAC) de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Unconventional Meets Traditional, Art Toronto 2011, Metro Toronto, Convention Centre, Toronto
9th Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
La Biennale Internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
Global Caribbean, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC) de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico*
Canadian Impressions, IDB Cultural Center, Washington DC, USA
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC*
Femme en mythologie(s), mythologie de femme(s): l’exposition d’art contemporain, Musee
du Montparnasse, Paris, France
2010 1st International Triennial of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo (TRIC 2010), Museo de Arte
Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
XXXI Bienal Pontevedra - Utrópicos: Centroamérica y Caribe, “El aguacero, la siesta, el
canaveral, el tabaco”, Pontevedra, Spain*
fragmentos de memoria y deseo Museo de TEOR/eTica, Costa Rica
Global Caraibes, Musee International des Arts Modestes,Sete, France*
Stains on my Chintz, Harrington Street Art Center, Kolkata, India*
2009 Global Caribbean, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, USA*
Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA*
Being Elsewhere: Seven Artists from the Latin American and Caribbean Diaspora in
Canada, IDB Cultural Center, Washington, USA *
Black Diaspora Visual Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery I C F, Public Library, Barbados*
Fanshawe College Fine Art Faculty, St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Center, St. Thomas, Ontario
2008 Atlantide Caraibe, Fondation Clement, Martinique*
2007 Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA*
International Print Triennial Vienna 2007, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
New Prints/ Autumn 2007, International Print Center New York: Columbia College, Chicago, USA
US Embassy Collection, US Embassy, Barbados*
Art for Export, Zemicon Gallery, Barbados*
2006 Khoj Kolkata International Artists’ Workshop Exhibition, Chaudhuri Bari, Bariupur, India
International Print Triennial Krakow 2006, Krakow, Poland*
BIMPE IV, The Fourth Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada*
2005 The Art of Caribbean Women, The Gallery at CLICO, Trinidad
jOKe, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2004 Caribbean Collection II, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, USA
Fanshawe College Fine Art Faculty Exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham Cultural Centre,
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
2002 Con/text: artists respond to writing, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Service/Self/Storage, City Center Storage, London, Ontario
Keep Six, Kitchener, Ontario
2000 Women of the World, White Columns, New York, USA. Traveled USA and Europe, 2000-2005*
1999 Big River International Artists Workshop Exhibition, Museum of the City of Port-of- Spain,Trinidad*
12 Norwegian International Print Triennale, Fredrikstad, Norway*
Art in Barbados: What Kind of Mirror Image?, Barbados Museum Gallery, Barbados
Contemporary Barbadian Art (National Carivista Exhibition), Barbados Gallery of Art, Barbados
In the Skins of my Dreaming Womb of Journey, Performance, Grande Rivière, Trinidad
1998 12th International Bienal of Graphic Art of Latin America & the CaribbeanSan Juan, Puerto Rico*
Mesotica III - Instalo-mesotica, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Costa Rica
Sparks from Marks, The Art Foundry, Barbados
Lips, Sticks, & Marks, The Art Foundry, Barbados; Museum of the City of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad*
Imagers 21, The Art Foundry, Barbados*
1997 2 International Print Triennale, Colour in Graphic Art, Torun, Poland*
International Mini Print Bienal, Cadaques, Spain
1st Latin American Printmaking Bienal, Nouveau Centro de Arte, The Dominican Republic*
Metamorphosis: A Change of Heart, The Art Foundry, Barbados*
National Submission to 1st Latin American Printmaking Bienal, DR Barbados Gallery of Art
Contemporary Art from Barbados, The Gallery in Cork Street, London, England*
1995 21st International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia*
Contemporary Art from Barbados, Wake Visual Arts Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA*
CARIFESTA VI, Trinidad
1994 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil*
Karibische Kunst Heute, Documenta-Halle and Halle K18, Kassel, Germany*
Contemporary Art from Barbados, Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A*
*Denotes catalogue/publication
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
KADIST Collection, Paris
Cortes Museum, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
Douro Museum, Portugal
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
US Embassies Collection, US Embassy, Bridgetown, Barbados
National Art Collection, Bridgetown, Barbados
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Art Collection, Washington DC, USA
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, P. R. China
Ministry of Education Collection, Bridgetown, Barbados
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO Caribbean Lounge), Rome, Italy
Queen’s University Archives, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
CLICO Collection of Caribbean Art, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Fundacion de Arte Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Museo TEOR/eTica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Richard Goddard Collection, Barbados; Presented by HRH Prince Philip
KHOJ KOLKATA, Kolkata, India
Open Studio Archives, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
F.W.Mestre Collection of Caribbean Art, Miami, USA
AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2018 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance grant
2016 Nominated for Queen Sonja Print Award 2016 (International Award), Norway
2013 Canada Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant
2012 Second Prize, Open Studio National Printmaking Awards, Toronto
2011 Visual Arts Project commission for Small Axe Journal; Andy Warhol Foundation grant
2011 Grand Prize, 7th International Contemporary Printmaking Biennial, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec
2011 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2010 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (India)
2010 PUMA Creative Mobility Award 2010 (Miami, USA)
2010 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2009 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artist Mid-career Grant
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (India)
2004 Canada Council for the Arts International Residency Grant, CCA7 Trinidad
2003 Mary Routledge Fellowship (research travel award)
2001/02 University of Western Ontario Scholarship
1993 National First Prize (Barbados), First Ladies of the Americas
1985 Art Collection Foundation Purchase Award, Barbados; LIAT Award
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2016 Summer Visiting Artist Program – Resident Artist, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2015 Research Artist, Bermuda National Gallery
2013 Research Artist, Museum of London Docklands, UK
2005 Caribbean Contemporary Arts International Residency Trinidad; Research Artist, Police Museum, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
2002-03 Research Artist, Barbados Museum, Barbados
PUBLICATIONS
Guest Co-editor with Annalee Davis, Dr. Erica James, and Dr. Jerry Philogene, Special Section Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice, Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Issue 52. New York: Duke U P 2017
Printopolis: Contemporary Printmaking Today, Jenn Law and Tara Cooper, eds, 2016
Creole Portraits III, ‘Twice Upon A Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses’, Zetesis Vol. 2, No 01. Birmingham, UK: ARTicle Press, Centre for Fine Art Research 2015
Gary Spearin: Painting Beyond, Exhibition Review, Border Crossings, Issue 124, Winnipeg 2012
A Collection of Creole Portrait Heads of the Female Sex, Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism. No. 37, New York: Indiana U P 2015
Joscelyn Gardner, Interview by Carlos Garrido Castellano, Special Issue Art Absolument Magazine,
Caribbean Art: Time for Recognition, France 2011
>copy >cut >paste >undo paste: Locating Caribbean Women Artists in the Diaspora. Art etc – Magazine, Kolkata, India: Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd., 2010 (Vol. 2, No. 1); reprinted in 2014 in Theory and Art Criticism in the Caribbean, AICA Caraibe du Sud
Subverting Colonial Portraiture: a Memorial to the Women of Egypt Estate. Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, No. 26. New York: Indiana U P, 2008.
Subverting a Caribbean ‘Natural’ History. Visible Language 42.1, After the Grave: Language and Materiality in Contemporary Art. Rhode Island School of Design, USA, 82-85.2008
<bridgetown>whisperpostNational Art Gallery Committee (Barbados) CD catalogue and website (www.nagc.bb/whisperpost) Mapping a Caribbean City’s Pulse, 2008
A Response to Infinite Island, Art for Export catalogue. Barbados: National Art Gallery Committee, 2007
Patrick Mahon: Frozen Intervals. Three States brochure, Open Studio, Toronto, 2007
Joscelyn Gardner. Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism 2007
Creole Portraits, Women and the Black Diaspora. Canadian Women Studies Journal, Toronto: York U P, Winter 2004 (Vol. 23, No. 2); images 2004
White Skin, Black Kin: “Speaking the Unspeakable”. Barbados: Barbados Museum & Historical Society, 2004
Whose Mirror Image? Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism. No. 6. Jamaica: University of the West Indies P, 1999, 157-164
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Guillermina De Ferrari, A Caribbean Hauntology: The Sensorial Art of Joscelyn Gardner and M. Nourbese Philip, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, DOI 2018
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Magdalena Barbaruk, Nowy Region Swiata, in format-net. 2017
Olga Stanisławska, A New Region of the World, Catalogue Essay, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland 2017
Peree, Rob, Art at the Carifesta XIII in Barbados: supporting actor on a stage dedicated to entertainment, Africanah.org, Sept 5, 2017
Fontaine, Dominique, Joscelyn Gardner: Une histoire feministe de la Caraibe, in esse arts + opinions No. 90 – Feminisms, Portfolio, pp. 72-75, Montreal, Quebec 2017
Zuill, Charles, Mary Prince: in her own words (exhibition review), The Royal Gazette, Bermuda (online; December 9, 2016)
Uszerowicz, Monica, An Exhibition Examines How Plant Taxonomies Influenced World History, Artsy Editorial, Aug 31, 2016
Coussonnet, Clelia, Art et Botanique, Diptyk n°32, février-mars 2016
Kennedy, Katherine, Remembering ‘your place’: A review of the 4th San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial & parallel exhibitions, ARC Magazine (online; January 25, 2016)
Acevedo-Yates, Carla, Corporalities: Physical and Material Representation of Women’s Bodies, in Corporalidades Exhibition Catalogue, Fundacion Casa Cortes, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2015
Terdjman, Sandra, and Gregory Castera, The Manufacturing of Rights: Beirut: Chemaly & Chemaly, Lebanon 2015
Cottingham, Steven, Joscelyn Gardner at Alberta Printmakers, Akimbo - Akimblog Reviews 2014
Mandybura, Cadence, Flowers and Power: Artist seeks to insert portraits in colonial Caribbean history, Exhibition Review, Fast Forward Weekly, Calgary Nov 20, 2014
Vermeulen, Heather, and Hazel Carby, Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University 2014
McDonald, Amy Athey, ‘A Bold Effort’: Illuminating images of slavery in the British Empire, Yale News, November 2, 2014
James, Erica, The Pleasure of Disorientation, Theory and Art Criticism in the Caribbean, AICA Caraibe du Sud online publication 2014
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Heyvaert, Anne, Repeat and Unfold, in 22 PMR Exhibition Catalogue, Ferrol, Spain 2012
Fernandez Campa, Marta, Caribbean Art in Dialogue: Connecting Narratives in Wrestling with the Image, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, Article 12, 2012
Rodgers, Margaret, Art Review: Not for the Faint Hearted, OshaWhat Magazine, January 25, 2012
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Simpson, Hyacinth M. Re-framing the Colonial Caribbean: Joscelyn Gardner’s White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece, Postcolonial Studies Journal, Rutgers U P, USA 2012
Law, Jennifer, Knowledge is Made for Printing: Joscelyn Gardner’s Creole Portraits Series, in Bleeding & Breeding Exhibition Catalogue, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario 2012
Donnell, Alison, Contesting Thistlewood: Slavery, Agency, and the Limits of Representation, in Bleeding & Breeding Exhibition Catalogue, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario 2012
Cheddie, Janice, Ritual and Reciprocity within the work of Joscelyn Gardner, in Bleeding & Breeding Exhibition Catalogue, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario 2012
Cozier, Christopher, Work in Progress: Wrestling with the Image, in About Change Exhibition catalogue, The World Bank Art Program, USA 2011
Levy, Bernard, Le 7e Ciel de la Gravure, Vie des Arts 223 (summer issue), Montreal, Quebec 2011
Lanneville, Jo Ann, Expanding the Biennale at Trois Rivières, Contemporary Impressions: The Journal of the American Print Alliance, Volume 19, Number 1 2011
Lanneville, Jo Ann, 7e Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières: Penser, comprendre et transformer le monde, Art le Sabord 89, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada 2011
Rumleski, Kathy, Londoner’s work wins world wide acclaim, in The London Free Press 2011
Tischler, Gary, Consequential Caribbean: Contemporary Artists Wash Away Sunny Stereotypes, Washington Diplomat, Volume 18, Number 3 2011
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Bailey, David, and Allison Thompson, A Shared Vision: Notes on Developing a Black Diaspora
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Brebion, Dominique, Recovering the Lost Memory, Arte Sur Magazine, Venezuela, Volume 2 No 1 2010
Jiminez, Carlos, Bienal de Pontevedra – Cartografia de las disidencias artisticas Centroamerica y el Caribe, ArtNexus Art Magazine, # 78, USA, Sept-Nov 2010
Dagen, Philippe, Sete devoile la creation de jeunes artistes des Caraibes, Le Monde, Paris, France, August 20, 2010
Sharma, Dr. Vaishali, Colonial Tale Retold: Review of Stains on my Chintz, Art Concerns, India, April-May 2010
Das, Soumitra, There is a story behind every pattern, The Telegraph, Calcutta, India, March 20 2010
Das, Soumitra, Ghostly hands in the dark, The Telegraph, Calcutta, India, February 14, 2010
Surai, Oindrilla Maity, A Tale Within and Without, Art & Deal, Vol. 7, No. 2, Issue No. 32, Calcutta, India
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, At the Little Haiti Cultural Center, a world-class exhibit focuses on the art of the Caribbean, Miami New Times, January 14, 2010
Rockstone and Bootheel multimedia e-magazine, Issue # 2, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 2010
Hoffman, Hank, Real Art Ways ‘Rockstone and Bootheel’ exhibition showcases richness of contemporary West Indian art scene, Connecticut Art Scene, February 10, 2010
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Esplund, Lance. The Underbelly of the Caribbean, The New York Sun, New York, 30 August 2007
Chris, Rea. Review of Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art. Percolator Magazine, Dec/Jan 2007
Mahon, Susan. WhisperPast-WhisperPost. Select Barbados Magazine. Barbados, August 2007
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O’Callaghan, Evelyn. Views and Visions: Layered Landscapes in West Indian Migrant Narratives,Third World Quarterly 26, 3 (2005). 487-495
Allen-AgostiniLisa. Artist Explores White Skin Black Kin, Trinidad, The Trinidad Guardian, 25 June, 2005
Best, Gerard A. Uncovering the Slavery Triangle: a Feminist Perspective. Cover Story. Trinidad, Sunday Express 19 June 2005
Best Gerard A., Black and White Stories. Caribbean Beat Magazine,Trinidad, Sept/Oct 2005, Issue #75
Hahn, Stuart. Joscelyn Gardner: Plantation Poker “The Merkin Stories”, 2005
Mahon, Patrick. Not to Look Away, Braided Narratives brochure. Toronto: 2005
Netter, Sarah, L’Identite Creole selon Joscelyn Gardner. Antilla1128, Martinique, 2 Fev., 2005
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Nelson, Charmaine. Black Hair / Her-Stories and Joscelyn Gardner’s Inverted Portraits, FUSE, Vol. 27, No. 3, Toronto: 2004
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Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo and Casa de America, 1997.
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Thompson, Allison. Zeitgenossische Kunst in Barbados: Die Suche nach der eigenen Identitat, Karibische Kunst Heute catalogue. Germany: Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Universitat GHKassel. 1994
Thompson, Allison. Contemporary Art in Barbados22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, catalogue Brazil: Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1994
Born Barbados. Lives and works Canada
2001-03 MFA, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
1980-85 BA (Film), BFA (Printmaking), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Joscelyn Gardner: unfolding a West Indian paper theatrical, Anna Leonowens Gallery,
NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2016 Staging Mary Prince; in her own words…curated by Sophie Cressal, Bermuda National Gallery,
Hamilton, Bermuda
2014 “bringing down the flowers…”, Alberta Printmakers’ Artist Proof Gallery, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
2012 Joscelyn Gardner: Bleeding and Breeding, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario, Canada*
2011 Joscelyn Gardner: tending to an “unspeakable” past.., Galeria Adhoc, Vigo, Spain
2009 Missionary Position, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2005 White Skin, Black Kin, InterAmericas Space, CCA7, Trinidad
2005 Braided Narratives, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2005 Peau Blanche, Parente Noire, Galerie ARSENEC, CMAC a l’Atrium, Fort de France, Martinique*
2004 Joscelyn Gardner: Of Braids and Bonds, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, Florida, USA.
2004 Creole Portraits, Zemicon Gallery, Barbados
2004 White Skin, Black Kin: “Speaking the Unspeakable”, Barbados Museum, Barbados*
2003 White Skin, Black Kin: A Creole Conversation Piece, McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario
1996 Virtual Omphalos, 23rd International Biennial of Sao Paulo,Sao Paulo, Brazil*
1994 Spirit of Woman: Eye to the Soul, The Barbados Museum Gallery, Barbados
1986 Line and Colour: Genesis, The Barbados Museum Gallery, Barbados
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 What plants can tell, Stewart-Hall Gallery, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
2019 Botanic Fictions - On the Political Narrative of Plants, Goethe-Institute Athens, Athens, Greece
2019 Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen Triennial, Bergen, Norway
2019 Flora: Between Plants and People, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway*
2018 The Living River Project: Art, Water and Possible Worlds, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON
2018 Poeticas de la Costa, Miami New Art Festival, Aruba Art Fair, San Nicholas, Aruba
2018 Bodies Under Pressure (7 artists), Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska, USA
2017 II Bienal del Sur, Pueblos en Resistencia, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas y Zona
Bienal Parque Los Caobos hasta el Museo de Arquitectura, Caracas, Venezuela
2017 A New Region of the World, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2017 We Have Met Before (4 artists), National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica*
2017 History + Infinity: A Caribbean Masters Exhibition (CARIFESTA XIII), Grande Salle, Barbados*
2017 Cosmopolis Biennial, Centre Pompidou – National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
2017 Contour Biennale 8 Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, Mechelen, Belgium
2016 Turning Tides, curated by Johanna Auguiac and Tumelo Mosaka, Memorial ACTe,
Caribbean Centre for Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Pointe-a-Pitre,
Guadeloupe *
2016 Beyond the Norm: International Juried Print Exhibition, University Galleries, Illinois State University, USA
2016 International Print Alliance Exhibition 2016, Canada submission curated by Mark Bovey,
Taimiao Art Gallery, Beijing Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China. Touring to Nanjing
Jinling Art Museum, Tianjin Art Museum, Shijiazhuang Art Museum, and Shenzhen Guanian
Original Printmaking Museum in 2017
2016 Botany Under Influence, APEXART NY, NY, USA
2015 Statements,SNAP 3, 3rd Int. Printmaking Symposium, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany*
Corporalidades, Fundación Casa Cortés, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico*
Resonance - Canadian Printmaking Shengzhi Art Centre,Beijing, China *
2014 Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-century Atlantic Britain,The Lewis Walpole Library Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA *
Nuit Blanche London, 402 King St., London, ON
FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, IDB Cultural Center, Washington DC, USA
Caribbean Crossroads of the World, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, USA
After the Flood, Transforming Spaces (TS2014), Liquid Courage Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
2013 Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Caribbean Cream: On the Verge, BrutEdge, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, US
Critical Mass shown at SGCI Conference PRINT:MKE, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; Triennial University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Little Gallery, University of Calgary, AB; Estampa Print Fair, Madrid; 150 Cicles International Project, Fundacion ace, Buenos Aires; Fundacion CIEC, Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporanea, Betanzos; Little Art Parlour Gallery, Novi Sadl, Serbia; GaleRica in Makarska, Croatia
2013 VOLTA NY 2013, International Art Fair, ARC Special Project New York, USA
2012 New Prints 2012/Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York, USA;
Visual Arts Center of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (2013)
2012 22 Maximo Ramos International Biennial Award for Graphic Arts, Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain *
Who More Sci-fi Than Us? Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands *
Global Caribbean, Fondacion Clemente, Martinique
Canada Pavilion, 3rd Qijiang International Print Festival, Printmaking Artist Village, Qijiang, China
2011 About Change, The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA *
China Invitation Exhibition of Prints, China Print Festival, Southwestern Academy of Fine Arts
Museum, Chongqing, China
Signos Vitales: Nuevas Adquisiciones del MAC 2009-2011, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
(MAC) de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Unconventional Meets Traditional, Art Toronto 2011, Metro Toronto, Convention Centre, Toronto
9th Biennial Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
La Biennale Internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
Global Caribbean, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC) de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico*
Canadian Impressions, IDB Cultural Center, Washington DC, USA
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC*
Femme en mythologie(s), mythologie de femme(s): l’exposition d’art contemporain, Musee
du Montparnasse, Paris, France
2010 1st International Triennial of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo (TRIC 2010), Museo de Arte
Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
XXXI Bienal Pontevedra - Utrópicos: Centroamérica y Caribe, “El aguacero, la siesta, el
canaveral, el tabaco”, Pontevedra, Spain*
fragmentos de memoria y deseo Museo de TEOR/eTica, Costa Rica
Global Caraibes, Musee International des Arts Modestes,Sete, France*
Stains on my Chintz, Harrington Street Art Center, Kolkata, India*
2009 Global Caribbean, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, USA*
Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA*
Being Elsewhere: Seven Artists from the Latin American and Caribbean Diaspora in
Canada, IDB Cultural Center, Washington, USA *
Black Diaspora Visual Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery I C F, Public Library, Barbados*
Fanshawe College Fine Art Faculty, St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Center, St. Thomas, Ontario
2008 Atlantide Caraibe, Fondation Clement, Martinique*
2007 Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA*
International Print Triennial Vienna 2007, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
New Prints/ Autumn 2007, International Print Center New York: Columbia College, Chicago, USA
US Embassy Collection, US Embassy, Barbados*
Art for Export, Zemicon Gallery, Barbados*
2006 Khoj Kolkata International Artists’ Workshop Exhibition, Chaudhuri Bari, Bariupur, India
International Print Triennial Krakow 2006, Krakow, Poland*
BIMPE IV, The Fourth Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada*
2005 The Art of Caribbean Women, The Gallery at CLICO, Trinidad
jOKe, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
2004 Caribbean Collection II, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, USA
Fanshawe College Fine Art Faculty Exhibition, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham Cultural Centre,
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
2002 Con/text: artists respond to writing, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Service/Self/Storage, City Center Storage, London, Ontario
Keep Six, Kitchener, Ontario
2000 Women of the World, White Columns, New York, USA. Traveled USA and Europe, 2000-2005*
1999 Big River International Artists Workshop Exhibition, Museum of the City of Port-of- Spain,Trinidad*
12 Norwegian International Print Triennale, Fredrikstad, Norway*
Art in Barbados: What Kind of Mirror Image?, Barbados Museum Gallery, Barbados
Contemporary Barbadian Art (National Carivista Exhibition), Barbados Gallery of Art, Barbados
In the Skins of my Dreaming Womb of Journey, Performance, Grande Rivière, Trinidad
1998 12th International Bienal of Graphic Art of Latin America & the CaribbeanSan Juan, Puerto Rico*
Mesotica III - Instalo-mesotica, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Costa Rica
Sparks from Marks, The Art Foundry, Barbados
Lips, Sticks, & Marks, The Art Foundry, Barbados; Museum of the City of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad*
Imagers 21, The Art Foundry, Barbados*
1997 2 International Print Triennale, Colour in Graphic Art, Torun, Poland*
International Mini Print Bienal, Cadaques, Spain
1st Latin American Printmaking Bienal, Nouveau Centro de Arte, The Dominican Republic*
Metamorphosis: A Change of Heart, The Art Foundry, Barbados*
National Submission to 1st Latin American Printmaking Bienal, DR Barbados Gallery of Art
Contemporary Art from Barbados, The Gallery in Cork Street, London, England*
1995 21st International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia*
Contemporary Art from Barbados, Wake Visual Arts Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA*
CARIFESTA VI, Trinidad
1994 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil*
Karibische Kunst Heute, Documenta-Halle and Halle K18, Kassel, Germany*
Contemporary Art from Barbados, Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A*
*Denotes catalogue/publication
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
KADIST Collection, Paris
Cortes Museum, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
Douro Museum, Portugal
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
US Embassies Collection, US Embassy, Bridgetown, Barbados
National Art Collection, Bridgetown, Barbados
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Art Collection, Washington DC, USA
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, P. R. China
Ministry of Education Collection, Bridgetown, Barbados
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO Caribbean Lounge), Rome, Italy
Queen’s University Archives, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
CLICO Collection of Caribbean Art, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Fundacion de Arte Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Museo TEOR/eTica, San Jose, Costa Rica
Richard Goddard Collection, Barbados; Presented by HRH Prince Philip
KHOJ KOLKATA, Kolkata, India
Open Studio Archives, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
F.W.Mestre Collection of Caribbean Art, Miami, USA
AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2018 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance grant
2016 Nominated for Queen Sonja Print Award 2016 (International Award), Norway
2013 Canada Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant
2012 Second Prize, Open Studio National Printmaking Awards, Toronto
2011 Visual Arts Project commission for Small Axe Journal; Andy Warhol Foundation grant
2011 Grand Prize, 7th International Contemporary Printmaking Biennial, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec
2011 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2010 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (India)
2010 PUMA Creative Mobility Award 2010 (Miami, USA)
2010 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2009 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artist Mid-career Grant
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (India)
2004 Canada Council for the Arts International Residency Grant, CCA7 Trinidad
2003 Mary Routledge Fellowship (research travel award)
2001/02 University of Western Ontario Scholarship
1993 National First Prize (Barbados), First Ladies of the Americas
1985 Art Collection Foundation Purchase Award, Barbados; LIAT Award
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2016 Summer Visiting Artist Program – Resident Artist, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2015 Research Artist, Bermuda National Gallery
2013 Research Artist, Museum of London Docklands, UK
2005 Caribbean Contemporary Arts International Residency Trinidad; Research Artist, Police Museum, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
2002-03 Research Artist, Barbados Museum, Barbados
PUBLICATIONS
Guest Co-editor with Annalee Davis, Dr. Erica James, and Dr. Jerry Philogene, Special Section Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice, Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Issue 52. New York: Duke U P 2017
Printopolis: Contemporary Printmaking Today, Jenn Law and Tara Cooper, eds, 2016
Creole Portraits III, ‘Twice Upon A Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses’, Zetesis Vol. 2, No 01. Birmingham, UK: ARTicle Press, Centre for Fine Art Research 2015
Gary Spearin: Painting Beyond, Exhibition Review, Border Crossings, Issue 124, Winnipeg 2012
A Collection of Creole Portrait Heads of the Female Sex, Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism. No. 37, New York: Indiana U P 2015
Joscelyn Gardner, Interview by Carlos Garrido Castellano, Special Issue Art Absolument Magazine,
Caribbean Art: Time for Recognition, France 2011
>copy >cut >paste >undo paste: Locating Caribbean Women Artists in the Diaspora. Art etc – Magazine, Kolkata, India: Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd., 2010 (Vol. 2, No. 1); reprinted in 2014 in Theory and Art Criticism in the Caribbean, AICA Caraibe du Sud
Subverting Colonial Portraiture: a Memorial to the Women of Egypt Estate. Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, No. 26. New York: Indiana U P, 2008.
Subverting a Caribbean ‘Natural’ History. Visible Language 42.1, After the Grave: Language and Materiality in Contemporary Art. Rhode Island School of Design, USA, 82-85.2008
<bridgetown>whisperpostNational Art Gallery Committee (Barbados) CD catalogue and website (www.nagc.bb/whisperpost) Mapping a Caribbean City’s Pulse, 2008
A Response to Infinite Island, Art for Export catalogue. Barbados: National Art Gallery Committee, 2007
Patrick Mahon: Frozen Intervals. Three States brochure, Open Studio, Toronto, 2007
Joscelyn Gardner. Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism 2007
Creole Portraits, Women and the Black Diaspora. Canadian Women Studies Journal, Toronto: York U P, Winter 2004 (Vol. 23, No. 2); images 2004
White Skin, Black Kin: “Speaking the Unspeakable”. Barbados: Barbados Museum & Historical Society, 2004
Whose Mirror Image? Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of Criticism. No. 6. Jamaica: University of the West Indies P, 1999, 157-164
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