"LIFE.CREATION" -
Courtney A. Hogarth & Kofi Kayiga (June - July 2009) 798 Art District, Beijing. CHINA

"Jamaica Biennial, 2008".

Shang Shang (Sunshine) Museum Inaugural Exhibition. September 26, 2008. Beijing (Song Village), China.

"Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition", August 2008. International Exhibition Centre. Beijing.

3rd Beijing Biennial, July 2008. China National Art Museum, Beijing.

PhD Graduation Exhibition. July 2008, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

"Journeys", November 2007, Beijing. Galleria on Third.

"Jamaica Biennial". National Gallery of Jamaica. 2006 - 2007.

"Cocoon", January 2006, Jamaican Embassy, Beijing

"Academy Lights", 2005, Central Academy, Beijing

"Spirit of The Brush - Courtney Hogarth Looks at China", August 2004, Grosvenor Galleries. Jamaica

Courtney HOGARTH (Shanhaizi)

- Biography

Born in the velvet shadows of the lofty Bull Head Mountains, Courtney Hogarth is a Jamaican artist currently living in Beijing China. He was recently conferred with a Doctoral Degree in Classical Chinese Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, from where he received his MFA.

Hogarth is a graduate of the Edna Manley College School of Visual Arts, in Kingston, Jamaica.

He came to China out of a profound interest in Chinese philosophy and culture, to pursue studies in Classical Chinese Painting. He endeavours to exercise respect for the wisdom and traditions of the people with whom he co-inhabits the earth. It is out of the desire to interpret and share what he feels as an individual that he creates.

His paintings have been exhibited at the National Art Museum of China, National Gallery of Jamaica, Grosvenor Galleries, and Revolution Galleries, Jamaica. In 2004 Hogarth held his first solo exhibition in Jamaica. Titled SPIRIT OF THE BRUSH Courtney Hogarth Looks at China, it presented the Jamaican audience with ink paintings inspired by Hogarths life in China. In 2006 Hogarth, along with four Chinese artists, participated in an exhibition titled Cocoon at the Jamaican Embassy in Beijing.

In his native Jamaica, Hogarth has been the subject of several newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television programmes. He has a unique interest in the literary world, writes poetry and prose dealing with the human condition, celebrating life, and questioning our journey as a nomadic race in the quest to find love and belonging. In 1994 Hogarth entered an essay competition sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank. His entry titled Youth and the Struggle for Social and Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was awarded first place, qualifying him Jamaicas representative to an international youth forum held in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1995. Additionally, he has been the recipient of several awards and scholarships, among them: the C.L. Stuart Award for Academic Excellence, the Mutual Life Foundation Scholarship, the Chinese Overseas Scholarship and, most recently, a Distinguished Foreign Scholars Scholarship from the Government of China.

In China, Hogarths work has been reviewed on China Central Television (CCTV), China Education Television (CETV), included in exhibitions of the Central Academy, and published in Configuration Multiply by Professor Hu Ming Zhe, of the Academy, in which she described his drawings as a seeming tropical breeze In 2004 he entered the Beijing Olympic Committee Art Exhibition with a work titled The Highest Ideal.

His paintings are to be found in private collections in several countries and have also been collected by the Chinese Embassy, in Jamaica, and the Ministry of Education, Jamaica.

Over the course of several summers Hogarth designed and taught drawing courses at the Edna Manley College School of Visual Arts.

One of the guiding philosophies Hogarth embraces is that the world is as broad as the mental space we create for ourselves. He believes that artists ought to contribute to the creation of an environment in which visual interpretation is given to dreams and ideas. And, therefore, to dictate how as creative individuals we communicate our visions to the rest of humanity adding strength and impetus to that universal impulse seeking to forge a more harmonious, habitable environment.


















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