KELLEY-ANN LINDO
kelleyannlindo@gmail.com
b. Kingston, Jamaica
Lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica, and Providence, RI, USA.
Education
2021 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, U.S.A
2015 BFA, Painting, The Edna Manley College of The Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA
Awards, Fellowships and Residencies
2024 SPACES Residency, Ohio, (forthcoming)
2024 Wassiac Projects, Wassiac, NY (forthcoming)
2024 Studio Mass Moca Residency (forthcoming)
2024 Wurtzel Residency and VCU Travel Grant, Montespertoli, Italy (forthcoming)
2023 Grand Central Art Centre Residency, Santa Ana, CA (ongoing)
2022 The Dedalus Foundation Fund for Past Fellows and Awardees, U.S.A
2021 The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture, U.S.A
2020 Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Graduate Research Grant 2020-21, Richmond, U.S.A
2020 E. I. Kirkland Scholarship in Painting & Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University
2019-21 P.E.O International Peace Scholarship (IPS)
2019-21 Fulbright IIE Foreign Student Program, Fulbright Program. Department of State, The United States of America
2018 Blaqmango Consultancy, Kingston, Jamaica.
2017 New Local Space Limited, Kingston, Jamaica.
2016 Alice Yard, Trinidad &Tobago.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 A Tournament Of Lies Summer Exhibition, curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Will Hutnick, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY, May 21th -September 17th
2022 Conjunctions and Disjunctions/ Conjunctions y Disyunciones, curated by Noah Simblist and Beatriz Balanta. Black Ground, Cali. Colombia, February 18th-24th
2021 Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, curated by Tyanna Buie, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI, February 26th - May 23rd
2020 More Pain: Organized by 1st Year MFA Graduate students, VCUarts, Richmond, VA, September 19th-27th
2020 Exquisite Corpse, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX, August 13th-15th
2020 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, Trinidad & Tobago, September 9th-15th
2018 Prizm Art Fair, Organized by Mikhaile Solomon, Miami, U.S.A, December 3rd-9th
2018 Arrivants Exhibition: Organized by Dr. Veerle Poupeye and Allison Thompson, Barbados Museum & Historical Society, Bridgetown, Barbados, November 6th-9th
2018 Blaqmango Residency Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, Kingston, JA, August 11th
2017 Jamaica Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA, February 26th- May 28th
2016 Digital Exhibition, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA, April 24th
2015 The School of Visual Art Final Year Exhibition, Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA, June 6th -June 27th
2014 UNCAGED, Organized by 3rd Year Undergraduate Students, CAGE Gallery, Kingston, JA, April 3rd- April 17th
Selected Collaborative Projects
2020. Project: Dancing in the Streets, Granderson Lab. Trinidad and Tobago
Academic Experience
2023 Assistant Professor in Residence at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI September -June 2025
2022 Adjunct Faculty at The Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA, September – May 2023
2021 Research & Studio Assistant at Brook Inmans Studio, VCUarts, Richmond VA, October – May 2022
2020 Adjunct Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond VA, September-May 2022
2019 Teaching Assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond VA, September-May
2018 Adjunct Lecturer, The Edna Manley College of the Visual & Performing Arts, Kingston, JA, September – May 2019
Professional Experience
2018 Assistant Visual Arts Coordinator, Multicare Youth Foundation, Kingston, JA, January - March 2019
2017 Assistant Curator, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA, June -October
2017 Curatorial Assistant, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA, January - February
2016 Curatorial Assistant, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA, September
2015 Intern, New Local Space, Kingston, JA, July - August
Publications
2021 Shoutoutla Magazine, https://shoutoutla.com/meet-kelley-ann-lindo-visual-artist/
2018 Arrivants: Making Exhibitions in the Caribbean, https://arrivantsexhibition.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/arrivants-kelley-ann-lindo/
2018 Preelit Magazine, ART-ICLES: KELLEY-ANN LINDO, https://preelit.com/2018/04/12/barrelstick-to-the-enemy-that-you-know/
2018 Shelene Gomes and Mala Jokhan. The Global South Vol. 12, No. 1, Caribbean Transmigration in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Reimaginings and Globalizing Conditions.
2018 Pearce, M. (2018). “Americas in Britain” Art Project: Windrush, Retrieved from https://cu.live.solas.britishcouncil.digital/blog/americas-britain-windrush-2018
2017 “Jamaica's Barrel Children: Growing up when a parent is a plane ride away”, NBC, by Melissa Noel, December 27th
2017. Nlskingston.org. NLS.
2017 “The Competing Politics of the Jamaica Biennial”, Hyperallergic, by Seph Rodney, June 2nd "Taking Stock of The Jamaica Biennial 2017 with the Executive Director of the National Gallery of Jamaica, Veerle Poupeye & Others", The Huffington Post, by Jacqueline Bishop, May 25, 2017.
2017 Contemporaryand.com. Jamaica Biennial 2017
2017 Matters, V.Send Love inna Barrel, Kelley-Ann Lindo. Aliceyard.blogspot.com
2017 Nationalgalleryofjamaica.wordpress.com. (2017). Kelley-Ann Lindo | National Gallery of Jamaicablog.
2016 “Creating from memory”, GUARDIAN, by Marsha Pearce, December 11th
2015 Pearce, M, Gillian, A & Robinson, C: Firing the Canon. Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters, (7), 25- 28.