Ebony G. Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson

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Born ,1981Kingston, Jamaica.Young Jamaican artist, working in Lexington,KY and Kingston,Jamaica. Currently serves as Assistant Professor in Painting at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington ,Kentucky. Patterson has participated in several exhibits since 2002 and has been the recipient of several awards. In 2006 she was awarded the Prime Minister's Youth Awards for Excellence in Arts and Culture. This is the highest award that a young person can recieve in this field in Jamaica. The ongoing body of work Gangstas for Life, explores notions of the machismo through exploring fashionable trends within Jamaican Dancehall culture. While the earlier works within this body explored the fashionable practice of skin bleaching, the most recent work has begun to include other fashionable exploits and examines a wider involvement of so-called ‘ bling culture’ and its reconstruction of notions of the masculine within a urban context . While still making references to Jamaican dancehall culture, the work raises larger questions about beauty, gender ideals and constructs of masculinity within so called ‘popular black’ culture. It seeks to examine the dichotomy between ‘camp aesthetics’ and its parallels within Dancehall culture . This body work raises questions about body politics and gender, gender and beauty, beauty and stereotyping, race and beauty. Read More
Location
Kentucky, USA, Jamaica
Website
http://www.artitup.zoomshare.com
Education
Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts,
4 year Honors Diploma in Painting (2004)
(Kingston, Jamaica)

Sam Fox College of Art and Design, Washington University in St. Louis
Printmaking/ Drawing , MFA
(St. Louis, Missouri)

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Hybrids, Seeline Gallery,Santa Monica,CA
www.seelinegallery.com

Closet Project (Installation), Mack B Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
www.mackbgallery.com
2006
Specimen, University City Library, St. Louis, Missouri

Case Studies: Venus, Cuts and Aprons, Mutual Gallery, Jamaica
2005
Dialysis, UC Gallery, University of Montana (USA)

2008

National Biennial , National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

Disciples : The Street Project, Downtown, Kingston, Jamaica

Art on Paper 2008, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
Greensboro ,North Carolina

Boys of Summer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Looky Here ,Summer Drawing Exhibit, Otis College of Art , Los Angeles California

NEXT: Invitational Exhibit of Emerging Art, Chicago,Illinois

Wall to Wall: Largescale Drawing, Louden House, Lexington, Kentucky

Taboo Identities: Race,Sexuality + the Body- a Jamaican context- Olympia Art Center Kingston, Jamaica, Lexington, Kentucky Tuska Centre of Contemporary Art. (First Curatorial Project)
www.taboo876.zoomshare.com

Curators Eye III: Ceremony in Space, Time and Sound, National Gallery of Jamaica , Kingston, Jamaica.

Vermont Studio Center , Johnson ,VT (Residency)
www.vermontstudiocenter.org

New Blue: Exhibition of Emerging Kentucky Artists,Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville,KY
The Art of Collage, Mutual Gallery, Kingston,Jamaica
Young Generations, Mutual Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Defacto,Sam Francis
Gallery,Santa Monica, CA
Four Aces, Traveling Exhibit of Largescale Print,USA

Exintrinsic : The Art of Ebony G. Patterson, Lisa. Kellner and Brooke Hine,
Gallery 5, Richmond ,VA
Curators Eye III: Ceremony in

NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Chicago , IL

2007
Woolworth Windows, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA
Four Aces, Traveling Exhibit of Largescale Print,USA

2006
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Intimate Matter, Two Person Exhibit, Off-Campus Gallery Charlottesville, Virginia

Making New Friends, Mack B Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
September 2006 University of Virginia Faculty Exhibit, Off-Campus Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Flat Files, St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Redhead Experimental Exhibit: A History of Womens Art, NY, NY
Young Generations 2006, Mutual Gallery Kingston, Jamaica
Washington University in St. Louis MFA Thesis Exhibit II, St. Louis, MO

2005
Identity and History :
Personal and Social Narratives in Art in Jamaica, Curators Eye II, National Gallery of Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica
-Curated by British Curator and Critic Eddie Chambers

Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year, Mutual Gallery (Jamaica)

Eight , First Year MFA Show, DesLee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Young Generations, Mutual Gallery (Jamaica)
Saakhi :A Multi-Ethnic look at Womens health and Womens Bodies, 3rd Floor Gallery ,St. Louis ,MO

2004
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery Kingston, Jamaica

2002 ROSL Scholars Exhibit, Royal Over-Seas League (Scotland)
Young Professional, Pegasus Kingston, Jamaica
Exhibition in Association with Centre de International Contemprian Arte, (CIAC) Pont Aven, Brittany, France
Stages, Edna Manley College Kingston, Jamaica
SUNY Brockport / Edna Manley College Student Exchange Show, (USA)

2003
Young Professionals, Pegasus Gallery Kingston, Jamaica
2002 ROSL Scholars Exhibit, Royal Over-Seas League (London)
Old Bag Show, Grovsner Galleries Kingston, Jamaica
2002

Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Juried Exhibition, Grovsner Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

2001

Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Juried Exhibition,
Edna Manley College of the visual and Performing Arts (Jamaica)

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Ebony G. Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson

Events & Exhibitions

Events

Future Shows: 2009
Gangstas, Disciplez +The Doiley Boyz
Solo Exhibit
Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
Cag[e] Gallery
February 3-February 21st
Kingston, Jamaica

Wi Did Deh Deh - Works of Oneika Russell + Ebony G. Patterson
Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY




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