Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, ICI is a hub that connects emerging and established curators, artists, and art spaces, forging international networks and generating new forms of collaborations. ICI provides access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
Ebony G. Patterson
Ebony G. Patterson (Jamaican, b. 1981) received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2006), and her BFA from Edna Manley College in Kingston (2004). She is an Associate Professor of Painting at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Awards include a William H. Johnson Prize Finalist (2013), a Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica (2012), Small Axe Magazine and Andy Warhol Commissioned Grant (2012), and a Rex Nettleford Fellowship in Cultural Studies (2011). Recent exhibitions include dy/nas/ty, Patterson’s first US solo museum exhibition, at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and Caribbean: Crossroads of the World at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Pérez Museum in Miami.
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EN MAS’
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean is a pioneering exploration of the influences of Carnival on contemporary performance practices in the Caribbean, North America, and Europe.
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